Gorgo 23

The Land of Long Ago

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Montes

Release: September 1965
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

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

— 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!

DEBUT

“The Land of Long Ago,” in Gorgo #23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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

Charlton Comics (conglomerate)
Gorgo (comic book): Gorgo 23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From a beach, 20th century ⋙ to the late Jurrasic. Note: both Gorgo and Dr. Hobart Howarth.
From an unknown time ⋙ to an ice age at an unknown time. Note: Gorgo and Howarth.
From an unknown time ⋙ to a 19th-century European war at an unknown time. Note: Gorgo and Howarth.
From 20th century ⋙ to the same 19th-century war at an unknown time. Note: General Barr and a sergeant.
From the 19th-century war ⋙ to the Spanish-American war at an unknown time. Note: all four of them.
From an unknown time ⋙ to the 20th century. Note: all four finally back at home.