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Turok and Andar, our Pre-Columbian Indian heroes, are men of their time period, and have weapons and skills of their time, primitive by our standards. The cavemen of the hidden valley, who might have been living there for centuries, have to be taught that simple technology. How did they survive in a world of giant predators, and how can men share space with dinosaurs, who predated them by many millions of years?
It is fiction so we just accept it. But cavemen and dinosaurs existing in a modern world, a lost world tale, was part of a genre of fantasy fiction. It set my mind to wondering as to who wrote the first lost world story with dinosaurs and/or prehistoric humans. I thought it must’ve been The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, but with a little clicking around the Internet came up with this from Smithsonian Magazine: “Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel?”. It shows that the idea wasn't new even when Doyle wrote his work.
From Turok, Son of Stone #5 (1956), story by Gaylord DuBois, art attributed to Bob Correa with inks by John Celardo.
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