Superhero of the day: shirtless blond guys in hostile environments

Okay, in this new format I get to editorialize.  I want to explore weird trends in comic books.  Today we will discuss the weird trend of shirtless blond guys who live in hostile environments.

Marvel comics had a retooled jungle man who used to appear in the pulps of the 1930s.  

Ka-Zar is Kevin Reginald, Lord Plunder, born in Castle Plunder, Kentish Town, London, England. He is the eldest son of Lord Robert Plunder, the English nobleman who discovered the Savage Land. After his mother had died and his father was killed by the barbaric Man-Ape natives of the Savage Land, Plunder was found and raised by the sabertooth tigerZabu, who possesses near-human intelligence thanks to a mutation caused by radioactive mists. "Ka-Zar" means "Son of the Tiger" in the language of the Man-Apes. Ka-Zar and Zabu are constant partners. Ka-Zar became an expert hunter, trapper, and fisherman, living off the wild land.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka-Zar_(comics)

In reality Ka-Zar was far more Tarzan crossed with Land of the Lost.  He lived in a hidden land in the arctic circle called the Savage Land (it just telegraphs danger, don't it?).  He has fought alongside Avengers and is somehow mixed up in the saga of the X-Men.

Kamandi is an American comic bookcharacter, created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The bulk of Kamandi's appearances occurred in the comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978.

Kamandi is a young hero in a post-apocalyptic future. After a huge event called "The Great Disaster," humans have been reduced to savagery in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamandi

Kamandi was hatched from the brain of Jack Kirby when his editor could not secure the rights to Planet of the apes.  Kirby searched his own past work and found a story that predates the apes books.  This led to one of the weirdest post-apocalyptic tales about a shirtless blond guy, talking tigers and giant crickets.

As weird as all that is, Kamandi has fought alongside Superman and Batman and may very well be the thing that keeps mucking up the DC Universe.