This Ain't Your Daddy's Frosty

Frank Frazetta's first work published by a major company was in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics from Baily Publishing Co. in 1944. Along with artist John Giunta who also worked on The Deacon, their combined efforts went into one of the most off the wall characters of the Golden Age, the Snowman. He started out as an idol worshipped by Eskimos in the Arctic, although for some reason the Inuit gave their creation the typical hand-me-down clothes that your average suburban snowman would wear. One day, a crew from the inviting Desolation Island made up of the worst outcasts of humanity marooned the evilest one of them all on the shores near Snowman's village. The villain is referred to as Fang, and although described as being a human, he had green skin and a hugely exposed skull for a head, plus he had the added bonus of being able to summon up any kind of creature he wanted. Fang conjured up a sea serpent to drown his former shipmates, and then an army of primates to attack the Eskimos. The villagers pray to Snowman which magically brings him to life, and all without the benefit of a magic hat. The icy avenger takes a few of Fang's men down with his axe but is knocked out cold (ha-ha) by a stray arrow which means Snowman isn't entirely made of snow as he had some kind of cerebral cortex to be knocked out like that. Snowman wakes up in Fang's lair and dropped into a crocodile pit, but he manages to give them the slip and feeds Fang to his own creations, thus stopping his plans for world domination. Frazetta made Snowman when he was a teenager and gave the character other outings of his own. You'd think a living snowman that goes around fighting monsters with an axe would've planted him in the special niche of demon hunter, but just because he wasn't part of a K-Pop band, Snowman's star never reached that high.