Real Name: Turok
Turok
Real Name: Turok
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First Appearance: Four Color Comic #596 (Dell Comics, December 1954)
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History: (Dell / Gold Key version) Two pre-Columbian Indian friends, Turok and Andar, were out on a hunting expedition when they accidentally found their way into a large valley surrounded by huge, unclimbable cliffs They discovered that dinosaurs still survived in the valley and that they could not find the way back out. For many years they survived in the valley, battling the dinosaurs, cavemen and other bizarre threats.
(Valiant version) In the American West of the 1860's, Kiowa Indian hunters Turok and Andar explored a cave in the desert. The cave led to another dimension. They emerged in the Lost Land, where they were menaced by dinosaurs and primitive tribesman. Later, Turok led the primitives against an incursion into the Lost Land by Dr. Lazlo Noel of North Am. Joining forces with North Am's protector, Magnus, Turok had his first encounter with futuristic technology.
Then, Erica Pierce, known as "Mothergod", arrived. Immediately changing the Lost Land to suit her plans, she erected futuristic facilities and fitted dinosaurs with intelligence-boosting implants. One of these "bionisaurs", called Mon-Ark, became Turok's greatest enemy. When Solar defeated Mothergod's genocidal "Unity" plan, the Lost Land was reduced to a state of unreality. Separated from Andar, Turok was cast through time and space to the jungles of Colombia in 1987. But he had not made the journey alone; scores of bionisaurs also appeared on Earth--including Mon-Ark.
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Got his own book, Turok, Son of Stone dated March-May 1956. It changed publishers
to Gold Key around #30, and eventually ended with #130. Valiant relaunched
it as Turok, Dinosaur Hunter in June 1993.
In the Valiant version, the hidden valley proved not to be somewhere in North America, but was instead located in an alien dimension, known as The Lost Land. Turok was a man out of his time - born before the White Man conquered America. With a deadly combination of modern weaponry and ancient wisdom, he fought a vendetta against creatures birthed by an unholy union of nature and technology - the bionisaurs.
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