Dates
- Cover date
- June-August 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Duckbill and His Relatives · 1 pages
Five panel illustrations, with educational captions beneath, about Trachodon, the duckbilled dinosaur, and his relatives.
- Dinosaur of the Deep · 13 pages
Turok and Andar are lost in a network of deep canyons in the Carlsbad area, where ancient forms of life still exist. An earthquake has dammed the river, and water is rising to inundate them. They make a raft, escape, and transport marooned cliff-dwellers to the mesa. The mesa-dwellers guard the cliff-top entry to where there is food. Turok teaches them to fish until the Water-Monster appears (Elasmosaur). Andar falls into the water, Turok fights the dinosaur, and saves Andar and a girl. The dam breaks, the water level drops, and Turok & Co. depart. Soon, the cliff dwellers can WALK home.
- Danger at the Nest · 4 pages
Hungry Dimetrodon climbs the tree toward food: the baby pteranodons that are just hatching. Mother Pteranodon lures him down, pretending to be wounded. She tears her wing, and cannot fly away; but she leaps off the cliff, and glides off. Later, healed, she returns to the nest, and finds new hungry hatchlings.
- The Search for Fire · 1 pages
Paku watches the fire at the cave mouth during the snow storm as the hunters seek game. He drifts off to sleep, and a clump of snow falls on the fire extinguishing it. The hunters return with meat, and his father sends him out into the storm alone to find fire. He finds it.
- Turok Seeks the Trail to Freedom · 14 pages
Turok and Andar scale a cliff to escape from the canyon, but find more cliffs. Andar snaps a ligament when he twists his ankle, and Turok searches for wood for a crutch. Turok encounters primitive horses, his first encounter with equines. He breaks a horse, so Andar can have "a four-legged crutch," naming it Wind Racer. Andar and Ski-Yu fight off a Dimetrodon. All take refuge in a boxed in area. Turok scales the cliff to the top, out of the canyon at last! He returns for Andar, an earthquake brings the canyon walls crashing. Escape is cut off. Ski-Yu and Wind Racer flee the rocks but return.
- The Tools of Early Men · 1 pages
Six panel illustrations with captions, depicting prehistoric people using the stone chopper for domestic tasks, turning it into a weapon with the addition of a handle; using flint spear blades for hunting; flint knives, bone needles, "and his wife made his clothes"; and carved antler spearheads for fishing.
Reprinted in
Turok, Son of Stone (2009)