Are these the Dell editions?

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Kim: [after listening to Drakken's speech on her weakness of being a teen] You're right, Drakken. Boys, dating, oh, it's hard. But this is easy.
[punches Drakken in the face]

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Yeah, 1-18 are all Dell. I'd have to fish out my old Turok comics to be sure, but I think the brand changed from Dell to Gold Key sometime around issue 30. This was more a matter of changing printers and distributors than creative staff, but they did mark the transition with rectangular word balloons, borderless panels, and other odd cosmetic changes in all their titles.

As best as I can tell, there seem to have been about four different (uncredited) artists drawing Turok in this period. The artist of issue 1 gave Turok and Andar very prominent cheekbones and wasn't much for fine details around the eyes. Issues 2-8 seem to have been done by the same artist who was doing Tarzan at the time. He gave Turok pouffy braids. With issue 9, the "Night Stealers" artist takes over. He continued the pouffy braids, and gave Turok and Andar a very characteristic thoughtful frown. At this point, the cavemen begin to have greater individual and tribal characteristics. A new artist seems to take over with issues 16-18, who I'll call the "Secret of the Giants" artist after his first story. This one has deflated braids and a scratchy, sketchy look, with lots of detail. The second story of 18 is done by the Night Stealers guy.

However, the Tarzan artist and the Night Stealers artist might have been the same guy with different inkers.

In overall storytelling, I think the title reached its peak in issues 9-18, though the earlier issues offer an indispensible beginning. A slow decline set in somewhere in the twenties, continuing to sometime in the Gold Key era when I lost patience. From what I've read about the later issues, there may have been later occasional flashes of brilliance.


I never could figure out what was going on in the "Turok Dinosaur Hunter" revival series from Valient in the 1990s. If you're gonna stretch out a complex story like a manga, your volumes should be more permanently available like a manga, or it's impossible for anyone to pick up after missing issue 1. It looked like they changed their minds and artists several times.

I was very interested in dinosaurs back in the late 50's, so that's how I found Turok. Never knew how they found themselves in the dinosaur valley, though.

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Kim: [after listening to Drakken's speech on her weakness of being a teen] You're right, Drakken. Boys, dating, oh, it's hard. But this is easy.
[punches Drakken in the face]

Kim Possible, the REAL Disney princess!