Re: Jungle babes and dinosaurs (was:Re: Accuracy)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 12:46 AM 6/26/97 -0400, you wrote:

>_Devil Dinosaur_ was a completely forgettable Marvel series from the early
>1980s(?--memory fails me) drawn by famous comic artist Jack Kirby. I think I
>got 50 cents a piece when I sold them, maybe less. Ran nine isues or
>something like that before folding.

I'll have to check: the complete run might have been more like 12 issues.
Wasn't a whole lot, in any case.

A favorite scene was Devil (the mutant tyrannosaur) trapped in a tar pit,
being threatened by that horrible carnivore, the Iguanodon!

>The character was later revived for a few
>more appearances in other comics, but by then I was selling off my collection
>and wasn't buying current issues anymore.

No problem: Devil's later appearances weren't up to par (?) with the
original Kirby...  (Except, of course, for the cross-over with Marvel's
_Godzilla_).

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
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