Now that is a succinct synopsis!
Perhaps the first time on Earth the adage "no good deed goes unpunished" is proven accurate!
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Showing posts with label Chariots of the Gods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chariots of the Gods. Show all posts
Friday, December 1, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Reading Room TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Spawn of Yargon" Conclusion
...we learned that the women who would eventually be the mothers of Tragg and his mate-to-be Lorn had been genetically-altered by advanced aliens from Yargon, creating the next step in human evolution beyond Neanderthals!
After witnessing the birth and the first year of Tragg and Lorn's development, the aliens (whom the Neanderthals considered to be "gods") departed, planning to return a couple of decades later to see how the experiment worked out!
But, in the interim, many of the Neanderthals came to blame the departure of the "gods" on the births of Tragg and Lorn, and felt the way to compel the return of those they worshipped was to slay the "strange ones"!
The endangered pair evade their would-be killers and hide in the nearby mountains.
But events far across the universe were about to throw the proverbial monkey wrench into everybody's plans...
Be here next Friday, as we present another chapter!
Bonus: When this tale was reprinted in the series' final issue, six years later, the cover was recomposed and recolored...
Though the flat color design definitely creates a better feeling of depth and separation between the foreground figures of Tragg and Lorn and the background where the Yargonians lurk, the wonderful textures of the original hand-colored version have been lost!
BTW, notice how, from 1976 to 1982, in only six years comics more than doubled in price, from 25¢ to 60¢ for a standard 36-page book!
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Friday, November 24, 2017
Friday Fun TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Spawn of Yargon" Part 1
...Gold Key leaped whole-heartedly into the world of Tragg with this premiere issue in 1976!
Co-creators Don Glut (writer) and Jesse Santos (illustrator) tweaked the concept a bit, and the publishers finally gave the go-ahead for an ongoing series.
Note Tragg is no longer using a silver-bladed ax as shown HERE!
Nor are there any magicians/voodoo practitioners as shown HERE!
Now, a previously-unmentioned brother, Jarn has been added.
Plus, a semi-legit explanation for how dinosaurs exist at this point in history is presented!
(Hey, it worked for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World!)
In addition, all the other people are now Neanderthals, while the previous tales presented a mix of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons!
And, we meet a race of busybody Chariots of the Gods-type aliens (who appear to be different from the aliens seen HERE) who are presented as the new ongoing antagonists.
Bonus: Here's the original art for page 4...
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Friday, November 10, 2017
Friday Fun MIDNIGHT MYSTERIES "Cry of the Dire Wolf"
In the early 1970s, writer Don Glut created several characters in a new "shared" universe...
...including Doctor Spektor, the host of this Gold Key anthology, and later the protaganist of his own title.
Some of those creations were inadvertant, much like the way the Atlas' Tales to Astonish stand-alone story "The Man in the Ant Hill" lead to the creation of Marvel's Ant-Man...
Originally-appearing in Gold Key's Mystery Comics Digest #3 (1972), this tale was reprinted as the cover feature in Gold Key's Dr Spektor Presents Spine Tingling Tales #1 (1975), which featured the already-active mystical crimefighter Dr Spektor as a host introducing reprints of stories.
The story was meant to establish a scientific explanation for werewolves in the Glut "universe",
But, it appears either Glut or his editor had bigger plans for the characters!
The early 1970s were the era of Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods books, ostensibly offering proof that Earth was visited centuries earlier by aliens who influenced human development!
Marvel took a shot at it with "Man-Gods from Beyond the Stars", which was meant to become a series, but didn't sell well enough to warrant continuing past the first story!
Meanwhile, the legendary Jack Kirby presented his own "takes" on the subject with his sequel series to the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey and The Eternals (which was supposed to be called Return of the Gods)!
So somebody at Gold Key thought...let's take this existing tale by Don Glut and Jesse Santos about an alien spacecraft crashing on prehistoric Earth and expand on it from the humans' point of view...with the result being the never-reprinted series Tragg and the Sky Gods, the basis for our next cycle of Friday Fun tales!
The early 1970s were the era of Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods books, ostensibly offering proof that Earth was visited centuries earlier by aliens who influenced human development!
Meanwhile, the legendary Jack Kirby presented his own "takes" on the subject with his sequel series to the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey and The Eternals (which was supposed to be called Return of the Gods)!
So somebody at Gold Key thought...let's take this existing tale by Don Glut and Jesse Santos about an alien spacecraft crashing on prehistoric Earth and expand on it from the humans' point of view...with the result being the never-reprinted series Tragg and the Sky Gods, the basis for our next cycle of Friday Fun tales!
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