Friday Fun TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Spawn of Yargon" Part 1

After two tryouts (HERE and HERE) with different versions of the mileu...

...Gold Key leaped whole-heartedly into the world of Tragg with this premiere issue in 1976!

To Be Concluded...TOMORROW!

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 Fun TALES OF SWORD AND SORCERY "Cult of the Cave Bear"

The second try at a Tragg strip...

...dropped any elements of science fiction, and went for pure fantasy...including zombies!

This Don Glut-scripted. Jesse Santos-illustrated story from Gold Key's Mystery Comics Digest #9 (1973) has never been reprinted, nor are the events or other characters referred to in the subsequent Tragg and the Sky Gods series, which we'll begin next Friday!

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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!

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