Tucked away in a Golden Age comic book hardly noticed anymore is this two-part comic adaptation of the 1940 Hal Roach film, ONE MILLION B.C. If the title seems familiar, that's because Hammer produced the remake in 1966 titled ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. If I need to tell you who starred in that, I'll have to give you a lengthy time-out in the dungeon of the Mysterious Mansion.
The original starred Victor Mature as Tumak, Carol Landis as Loana and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Akhoba. While the story is actually pretty good, the special effects are marred for modern viewers with various live reptiles wearing prosthetics used as dinosaurs and a man slogging around in a rubber suit trying his best to act like a T-Rex!
The strip is written and drawn by an unknown scriptwriter and artist and appeared in CRACKAJACK FUNNIES #25-26 (July 1940-August 1940) published by Whitman, a subsidiary of Western Publishing Co. Another imprint of Western is the more familiar Gold Key Comics.
And believe me, the T-Rex looks much better in the comic!
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