Sam Anderson

* Original
* Issues 1-69
* Issues 70-82
* Issues 83-91
* Issues 91-100

Defenders of the Realm

Inhumans

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> > "I'm glad you asked..."
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> > -Sam Anderson,  The Adventures of Stick Man Issue #2
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> > "We're Stickmen for Christ's sake. We live - we fight - we die - for each other..."
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> > -Sam Anderson,  The Adventures of Stick Man Issue #99
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## **Overview**

Sam Anderson is one of the protagonists of The Adventures of Stick Man. He is best friends with Jessie Reed, Jordan Richards, and Stick Man. Sam started out as a regular kid living in Willowvale, before moving to Stickbville. But little did he know, that he had great things in store for him. Sam would later go on to become the leader of the whole Stickman Race. He eventually holds a Mythic Stone without dying and saves the universe.

## **History**

Sam was born in the town of Willowvale. He never new his father. His mother told him that his father died when he was three years old. On his 7th birthday, he was given a telescope by his grandpa, Grampoo. Eventually, when he was 11 years old, Sam moved away from Willowvale and started living in Stickville. He began his first day at Stickville Central School and it was there that he met his two friends Jessie Reed and Jordan Richards. A few months later, he was taking a walk with Jordan and spotted a trail of coins leading up a hill. They followed it into a building at the top of the hill and the door closed behind Them. A super hero named Stick Man had to come save them. A few years later, Sam and Jordan were discussing the possibility of time travel. They made an oath to come back to this very second if they ever made the break through on time travel. As soon as they shook hands, they were visited by a version of Sam from the future who told Sam to never go out with Fayth and warned Jordan that he will comit suicide in the future. A few weeks later, Sam is walking by a building when Jordan calls to him from the top of the building. Thinking he's going to kill himself, Sam tries to get him to go back. Jordan then reveals that the building is on fire. Sam tells him to jump and that he'll catch him. Jordan jumps but Sam misses, causing Jordan to break both of his legs. When Jordan gets out of the hospital, they receive a science project for school. Sam devises a plan to find evidence of alien life with his telescope. He doesn't find aliens but he does find out that a comet will collide with the earth. He tries to tell his class about it when presenting the project but no one believes him. So he goes and gets Stick Man to deal with it. Sam and Jordan devise a plan to save up and buy the Stickbox Gaming Console. They don't have enough though. So they decide to babysit to earn money. Jessie overhears Sam and Jordan on the phone talking about the comet so Sam tells her whats going on. Sam and Jordan try to babysit a house of like 5 kids but accidently burns the house down. Sam ends up selling his telescope to earn enough money to buy the gaming console. When they go to by it, it was already sold out. Sam and Jessie begin dating which makes Jordan jealous because he has had a crush on Jessie since before Sam moved here. He tries to kill himself because of it. Sam tries to talk him down from it and he almost does but the part of the building Jordan is on breaks off, causing him to fall. Sam thinks he's dead. Sam and Jessie break up following Jordan's death. Sam blamed himself for Jordan's death and when the town spiraled into chaos on account of the mayor's grieving, Sam was the only one trying keep order in the city. When the Spoopy Man Crisis concluded, Sam took on the role of leader of the Stickman race. When the sun began to expand, Sam left a mother and her baby to die on the planet. Jessie tried to make him feel better but it didn't really work. Nonetheless, Jessie and Sam began dating again. When the Stickmen landed on Zuria, Sam was almost killed by Mitchell Collins but he was saved by Stick Man's Double. When Jessie died at the hands of Drax, Sam blamed himself. He began lashing out at him friends, even punching Stick Man in the face. Sam found a stone on Zuria just before they left the planet behind and he took it with him. An action he would soon come to regret. Sam kept the stone a secret from everyone else for a while after he found it. He tried to figure out how it worked but he couldn't. Then one day, he finaly told the other Stickmen about it. He explained that it wasn't dangerous and tried to demonstrate it. But in doing so, he released a beam of energy from the stone that hit Stick Girl in the face, giving her a scar over her eye. Feeling tremendous Guilt over what happened, Sam packed up his stuff and left the village behind for good, becoming a sort of Hermit and leaving Stick Man in charge of the human race. Two years later, Stick Man traveled to visit Sam and talk about the stone only to discover that someone had stolen it. Stick Man and Sam began working together to try to find out who had stolen it. When a Neutron Star threatened their home, Sam was quick to volunteer to risk his life for the sake of others. He reluctantly allowed Stick Boy to destroy the Neutron Star after he stowed away.