Does anyone else remember this comic from the 50's & 60's?

The basic premise of the story: Two Sioux Indians from the period probably just prior to or just around the time of contact between the white man and the Sioux get transported somehow (I forget how) into a "lost world" complete with cavemen and LOTS and LOTS of dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts. Yowsa! Lotsa possibilities for action.

The older, more authoritative Indian is called "Turok". His younger (I think) pal is named Andar. Turok has braids. Andar has a sort of Prince Valiant cut, as I recall. They both are good marksmen with a bow and arrows. This turns out to be a damned good thing, since they are menaced constantly by the aforesaid cavemen, dinosaurs, and other beasts. There are an unusual number of predators roaming around...so many, in fact, that there must be a very short supply of prey for them...which explains why they are so set on eating Turok and Andar.

Well, it makes for just one exciting story after another.

Now, everyone knows that it is not easy to kill a tyrannosaur or an allosaur with a couple of arrows, right? Okay, so Turok and Andar happen on a way of putting a deadly, fast-acting, plant-based poison of some kind on their arrows. It kills tyrannosaurs dead in under 4 seconds!

This stuff must be more concentrated than 100-proof strychnine, that's all I can say...gotta handle them arrowheads carefully, brother.

Now, I have to say that Andar always tended to get the short end of the stick. That's cos he was the "sidekick", like Tonto to Turok's kimosave. This was rank stereotyping, and I think it's time to set things right!

Let's see that Andar gets the respect he deserves after all these years!

The cavemen were a pretty sorry lot, low-browed nuckle-draggers with big clubs, usually in a paranoid and ugly state of mind. Women were seldom seen in this comic, which may account for why the cavemen were overly aggressive and at loose ends most of the time.

As for the dinosaurs, they were all called "honkers" by Turok and Andar. Bizarre. It may have have something to do with the fact that these same dinosaurs were apparently capable of uttering only two sounds... HONK!!! and GAHHH-HONK!!! (the latter when they were REALLY upset!). I doubt that this was an accurate representation of dinosaur vocabulary, but who can say?

I think the dinosaurs may have had a third cry they uttered, when dying from a poisoned arrow hit...something like "Oh, SHIT!", but I can't remember what it was exactly...

But I have a question. An important one. Why was Turok called "Son of Stone"?

Was his father named "Stone"? Kind of a boring name, I would think. Or was the appellation "Son of Stone" supposed to convey Turok's iron will, his determination, his grace under pressure, his rocksolid jaw, etc.??? And what does "Turok" mean, anyway?

I have to know!

Anyway, the comic should have been called "Turok & Andar". It was totally unfair to leave Andar out of the title. Rank prejudice. Something should be done about it.

- LH