The Land of Long Ago
- by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Montes
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Land of Long Ago” by Joe Gill [?]:] and Bill Montes, in Gorgo #23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965).
Charlton’s Gorgo comic was inspired by the the 1961 movie of the same name Unlike the movie, however, the comic book Gorgo had one adventure in time when Dr. Hobart Howarth rescues Gorgo from YaPa* by sending the giant reptile back to the late Jurassic. Sadly, as a child, I bought only one Gorgo comic, which was not the time-travel issue, although that one issue I had was drawn by Steve Ditko, hooray!
* Yet another Pentagon attack
* Yet another Pentagon attack
—Michael Main
I will send Gorgo back into is own era in the stream of time. Here he is an anachronism . . . In his own time, he would be in harmony withhis surroundings!
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): late Jurassic
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: a 19th-century European war with cavalry and the Spanish American war
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: presumed time period
- Time Travel Methods
- Temporal Radiation
- Time Catapults: The machine’s radiation catapults Gorgo and others back in time.
- Themes
- True Histories: General Barr realizes that Gorgo caused the surprising outcome of a 19th-century battle.
- Real-World Tags
- Dinosaurs: It’s unclear what kind of giant reptile Gorgo himself is, but in this story, he certainly visits the dinosaurs.
- Ice Ages: an unspecified ice age after the Jurassic
- Spanish-American War
- Groupings
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- “The Land of Long Ago” by Joe Gill [?]:] and Bill Montes, in Gorgo #23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965).
Ernie Bach (inks)