O'MEAGRE MAN

THE OMEGA MAN (1971)
dir: Boris Sagal

O'MEAGRE MAN
Cracked #100, May 1972
a: John Severin

Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) is an army colonel who's the last man on Earth, having given himself a life-saving serum during a plague. He walks the streets of Los Angeles and during nighttime has to fend off a group of plague victims known as “The Family”

In the bottom two panels are references to Heston's films The Agony and the Ecstacy and Planet of the Apes

While patroling the streets he sees Lisa (Rosalind Cash), another human who hasn't succumbed to the plague, disguised as a department store mannequin, and she runs away whwn he discovers her. The Family finds Robert and captures him.

As Robert is about to be executed by The Family, he is rescued by Dutch (Paul Koslo) and Lisa who kidnap him and take them to their compound.

Robert meets the last remaining survivors of Earth, who are not long for the world unless there is a cure. Lisa's brother Richie (Eric Laneuville) is already dying, and Robert promises to invent more serum and start using it to save Richie's life. As this happens, a love affair between Robert and Lisa begins.

One day Lisa succumbs to the plague and joins The Family, and they try kill Robert, impaling him with a spear. (Not shown: Dutch comes to town and gets the remainder of the serum).