5/29/2023 0 Comments Tutoriel comic lifeThe animal’s hide is too tough to kill it with guns, though Tomahawk does stun it by exploding his entire powder horn in its face. The Horror comics used it a lot (along with the frozen mammoth and frozen caveman.) No matter what you choose to freeze, it always thaws out and comes back to life. This story features one of comics’ favorites tropes: the frozen dinosaur. “The Frontier Dinosaur” ( Tomahawk #58, October 1958) was written by an unknown author. Bronto steaks! Shades of Fred Flintstone. Tomahawk solves their problem first by serving up giant eggs then by trapping and killing T. They journey to the hard-to-find valley and find White Eagle and his people starving. Tomahawk and his junior sidekick, Dan Hunter, hear of a valley filled with monsters from a dying pioneer. “The Lost Valley” ( Star Spangled Comics #83, August 1948) was written by an unknown author. He doesn’t add a lot of dragon-esque fantasy flourishes but sticks to the facts most often. It is obvious he took the time to look at current dinosaur models. Fred drew almost every story over the two decades the comic was published. Since Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a bestseller with The Lost World in 1912, why change anything?Ī big part of Tomahawk’s success is the consistent artwork of Fred Ray. The writers were doing something unusual bringing in giant reptilian monsters into a Western but they weren’t re-inventing the comic book wheel. You get the frozen dinosaur, the lost valley of the dinosaurs, lonely dinosaurs, cavemen riding pterodactyls, etc. What is almost as fun is the types of dinosaur tropes that writers like Dave Wood, Ed Herron and Bill Finger used in these comics. And in all those tales, most of are on ordinary Western/Revolutionary War themes, but there were the odd ones: tales with robots, aliens, giant apes, giant men, native sorcerers and, of course, dinosaurs. That’s two hundred and one issues between the two series. That comic ran for 140 issues, ending in May-June 1972. ![]() The character began as a back-up feature to Robin, The Boy Wonder in Star Spangled Comics #69 June 1947) to #130 (July 1952) before getting his own series, Tomahawk in September-October 1951. Tomahawk and the Dinosaurs? The brave frontiersman met dinosaurs eight times in his lengthy career in the Old West.
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