A pal recently sent me a superb collection of
Turok, Son of Stone, my comic book of choice as a kid. What a blast to revisit the tales of Turok and his young friend Andar, indigenous Americans who wander into a vast “Lost Valley” of dinosaurs and pronoun-challenged cavemen. Among the delights was…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this two-headed horror on the cover of issue #62 (July 1968)…
…which, it turns out, was an hallucination by Andar, who was tripping under the influence of some local flora—a bit of none-too-subtle anti-drug propaganda. As I recall, I found it a bit of cheat as a kid that the promised monster was just an illusion. Sure is a cool painting, though.
The collected Gold Key
Turok adventures are being re-published in hardcover “Archive” editions by Dark Horse comics. Volume #10, which contains this issue and a couple of the other first comics I ever bought, is out this month.
No comments:
Post a Comment