Dates
- Cover date
- March-May 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #7 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Brontosaurus · 1 pages
Information about Brontosaurus the dinosaur. Four illustrated panels with captions.
- Friend of the Wolf · 14 pages
Chief Nahunk is angry at Ski-Yu, who chewed his new axe handle. Turok, Andar and Ski-Yu depart the mesa rather than have conflict with their friends of the mesa. A cave leads to a different canyon. Ski-Yu drives off an inquisitive Stegosaurus, saving a frightened stone-age woman and her child. She tells her tribe, who bring presents of food to Turok and Andar. They now have new friends.
- Lotor Goes House Hunting · Lotor · 4 pages
A cloudburst floods Lotor's den. He leads his family out. Dinosaurs attack. Lotor beats one dinosaur; they run from another. Mother raccoon selects a tree with a hole in it for the family. "Mother has picked the prize apartment this time! No floods can drown it. No snoopy reptiles can crawl inside!"
- Tusks of the Mammoth · 1 pages
The village expels Ontok the hunter because Boromp, the mad bull Mammoth, seeks revenge against Ontok, who wounded him. Ontok promises to return to the village with Boromp's tusks; he tricks Boromp off a cliff.
- The Angry River · 13 pages
Water-carriers from the people of the mesa are attacked by a T-Rex as they fetch water below. Turok and Andar fell the T-Rex, but savages attack from upstream. The T-Rex revives, and the raiders retreat. Turok and Andar visit the people of the mesa ("The whole mesa top is a big garden, Turok; THAT'S what they needed all the water for"), then trail the raiders to a natural rock formation, a bridge spanning the gorge. The raiders have amassed a war-party. T-Rex appears. A flash-flood wipes out the bridge, dinosaurs, and the war-party.
- The Secret of Fire · 1 pages
Speculates on the origin and development of prehistoric man's use of fire.
- Dimetrodon · 1 pages
Dimetrodon bites Edapohosaurus' nape.
Reprinted in
Turok, Son of Stone (2009)