Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #010: Stone and Steel!
Magnus: Robot Fighter #12
Turok and Andar face off against threats from the 41st century! Also, some bozo who fights robots guest-stars? He won’t last, surely.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #009: Seeks The Trail to Freedom
Turok: Son of Stone #8
The role of the plesiosaur will actually be played by a sock puppet with a dental problem.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #008: Young Hawk
The Funnies #65 (1942)
In the last entry I briefly mentioned Young Hawk, a comic strip with a lot of similarities to Son of Stone, so much so that it even tangentially ties into the creation of Turok as a whole. No good comic book begins without a decades-spanning kerfuffle over the true identity of who created it, how it came about, and other minutiae that’ll eat up a dozen pages of a retrospective before it gets to the bits anyone might be familiar with. Be glad I didn’t start the feature on this tangent!
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #007: Friend of the Wolf
Turok: Son of Stone #7
Turok gets an adorable widdle puppy dog.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #006: The Giant Ape
Turok: Son of Stone #6
It’s an adventure comic from the 1950s, so you knew it was coming: enter the inexplicably giant gorilla.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #005: The Secret Place
Turok: Son of Stone #5
Turok and Andar get a pet!
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #004: The Bridge to Freedom
Turok: Son of Stone #4
Despite appearances, Turok will not encounter a mastodon in this issue.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #003: In Strange Waters
Turok: Son of Stone #3
Turok goes through high water and back to help friends in need.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #002: The Mystery of the Mountain
Turok: Son of Stone #656
Nearly an entire year later, Turok returns to Four Color Comics and picks up exactly where it left off!
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #001: The World Below
Turok: Son of Stone #596
The humble origins of Turok, published by Dell Comics all the way back in December 1954, presented in the pages of Turok: Son of Stone… issue 596? What the?! We’ll get to that in a bit, don’t panic.
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