Dorno of the Herculoids, Grown Up and Tied Up

These are The Herculoids, Zandor (middle), Tara (left), and Dorno (right), protectors of the planet Amzot in a Saturday morning cartoon series that ran 18 episodes from 1967 to 1969.  A few more episodes were aired in 1981-1982.

They were barbarians with sci-fi powers and a lot of cool pets: a space dragon; a giant ape; a rhinocerous with a laser cannon for horns; and two blob-beings.









Most episodes involved one of the three getting captured by Bird Men, Mole Men, Spider Men, Bubble Men, Electrode Men, Sun People, Crystallites, Reptons, Monkey People, and so on. 

Dorno, of course, ignores the orders to "stay here where it's safe" and either initiates the action or stumbles upon a way to perform a daring rescue.

Although it's been 35 years since we saw any new episodes, the Herculoids have not been forgotten. They've appeared on Harvey Birdman and Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and in various comic books, including DC Comics'Future Quest (2016).




And there's a lot of fan art of Dorno tied and threatened.
















Usually he's aged into young adulthood and buffed up a bit, to appeal to adult sensibilities.

















Sometimes he is threatened by villains from the show, and sometimes by new characters.  There's a whole series of Dorno fighting Freddie Kruger.
















Here Jonny Quest and Hadji gang up on the barbarian hero.













Jonny and Dorno have some romantic moments, too.










But there's not much time for romance when every monster, pirate, and villain in the galaxy wants a piece of you.







And the rule in the Villain's Code about hurting kids no longer applies.

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See also: Saturday Morning Muscle