Here are a couple of heroes that I never got around to pairing with Batman during my Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues days. I figured it might be fun to put all three together. Add in a bunch of dinosaurs and you have an issue that would have delighted 12 year old me.
Me, too, Ross! :-)
ReplyDeleteA DC/Gold Key crossover like this would've had me plunking down sixty cents instantly. Batman would no doubt have traveled to this era, courtesy of Prof. Nichols, to solve the paradoxical mystery of how a circa 16th century Native American came to be toting a 21st century auto-rifle amidst a group of Cretaceous dinosaurs (including Redwing's apparent ancestor) in a piece of Neolithic rock art. And Mightor would no doubt be battling that greatest of prehistoric-born villains...Vandal Savage!
i would also have dragged it off the shops shelves ! Batman, Turok & Dinosaurs,
ReplyDeletenot sure who the other person is …
his comic may not have reached the U.K.
At 12, I would've seen this cover and thought, "Wait... what? How?" And probably either read it there in the grocery store, or possibly purchased it if I could.
ReplyDeleteAnd today it probably would be a minor collector's item worth $20-50.
PS: The triceratops seems to be thinking, "How did I get myself into this?"
Off-topic, I was wondering this morning if you've ever had J. Jonah Jameson meet G. Gordon Godfrey.
Ooh ... I really want to read this!
ReplyDelete@simon: The Mighty Mightor was a Stone Age superhero featured in Hanna-Barbera cartoons circa the sixties or seventies. Was somewhat similar to Thor, actually.
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant cover, Ross.
@Simon: JM is right. Mightor was one of the bumper crop of superhero cartoon series that Hanna-Barbera came out with, for Saturday morning telecast, in 1967-68. With his adventures sandwiching those of that seemingly mutant white whale...Moby Dick!
ReplyDelete@Simon: Mightor was a villager named Tor that saved a mystic. The reward was raising his club and yelling Mightor and changing into him. The club let him fly and fired out force beams that could do different things like Space Ghost's power bands could.
ReplyDeleteOne of these beings is not like the others. Mightor & Turok would be enough with Mightor's club. Question is why was Batman put there? A detecive- time travel mystery? A relocation by Time Trapper or Kang for some other purpose? Possible. Maybe a parallel Earth with some other surprises? Maybe they are on Dinosaur Island!
@Det. Tobor: maybe Batman is trying to rescue Redwing on behalf of the Falcon. That archeopteryx sure resembles that particular Pet Avenger (as Carycomic already hinted).
ReplyDeleteIt would certainly resolve the dangling plot thread left over from STF #3889 (back in Dec. 2022).
ReplyDelete@Simon: there's not much I can add to what the others have already told you except to say that Gold Key Comics would've no doubt published a couple of one-shot spin-offs of that cartoon during the Sixties. The same as they did for WB and Disney cartoon characters.
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