Halloween Horror MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS "Day of the Hunter"

Hunting Dinosaurs is a Popular Concept...

...as seen in Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder", L Sprague deCamp's "A Gun for Dinosaur", and even a Superman tale!

Here's another version of the trope, with an emphasis that'll startle you!

No concern for how killing numerous dinosaurs and disrupting the primordial environment might affect history!

It's just "Well, I got that out of my system, so don't pack up and go home to your mother, honey!"

Admittedly, the unknown writer, penciler Charles Nicholas, and inker Vince Alascia, who created this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #36 (1963) were writing a children's story, but still...it reminds me of "Time and Punishment", one of my favorite segments from The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials!

More Dino-Fun Next Week!

Halloween Horror WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur" Conclusion

After you gaze at this eye-catching cover by an unknown penciler and penciler/inker John Romita Sr...

...we'll recap What Has Gone Before!

Time-traveling safari guide/hunter Reginald Rivers offers a cautionary tale to an overly-enthusiastic prospective client.

His story concerns two other clients who disregarded the experienced hunter/guide's warnings...

To enhance your appreciation of this tale, here's a couple of unique treats...

The dramatic radio adaptation of "A Gun for Dinosaur" for the classic sci-fi series X Minus One, starring Mason Adams.

Plus, the illustrations by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller) from the original prose tale in Galaxy Magazine!

More Halloween Horror with dinosaurs to come...

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Halloween Horror WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur!" Part 1

One of the great hokey time travel stories of all time...

...beautifully-adapted by some of Bronze Age Marvel's best creatives!

Be here Thursday for the astounding conclusion!

Originally written in 1956 by L Sprague deCamp for Galaxy Magazine as a counterpoint to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"...

Art by Ed Emshwiller

...the one-shot spawned a series of stories about time traveling hunter Reginald Rivers!

The adaptation in Marvel's Worlds Unknown #2 (1973) by writer Roy Thomas and illustrators Val Mayerick and Ernie Chua/Chan is extremely faithful to the prose tale.

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L Sprague deCamp

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Halloween Horror LAND UNKNOWN Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...(at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video) an Antarctic expedition investigating reports of a source of warm water and fossils discovers, within a circular mountain range, a hidden tropical oasis...filled with creatures long consider extiinct!
Forced down after their helicopter is damaged by a collision with a pterodactyl, the team encounters another prehistoric creature...

To Be Concluded, Tomorrow, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Historical note: in 1947, the US Navy found currents of warm water emanating from fissures along the Antartcic Coast!
It turned out to be water from the ice sheet itself, melted by heat from subterranean volcanic activity, not leaking from a pocket oasis on the surface!

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Halloween Horror BLACK MAGIC "Cry for Help!"

 Most comics fans know Prize's Black Magic series as...

...one of the Joe Simon/Jack Kirby team's best projects.

But, as you can see from this non-S&K tale, there was more to it!

The S&K team's tenure ended when the book was cancelled with #33 in 1954, due to the mass cancellations of horror comics caused by the "Seduction of the Innocent" hysteria generated by Fredric Wertham.

When the book was revived as a Comics Code-approved sci-fi title with #34 in 1957, Joe Simon returned as editor, but the ongoing partnership with Kirby had ended and Jack didn't participate in the new version.
They would work together on occasional projects like the late-1950s Harvey Comics sci-fi/fantasy line and the reboot of The Sandman at DC in 1974, but not as partners, just co-workers.

This particular story, by penciler/inker Ted Galindo and inker Bill Draut is from the final issue...#50 (1961).

Note: Didn't the son's "future self" say he had found the frozen dinosaur two years earlier?

But he also said he was from 1970...ten years in the future.

So, unless my math is really off, the son wouldn't find the dinosaur for another...eight years!
How did he find it now?

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