The author is unknown but may have been Thompson as well. Ben Thompson drew six episodes for Marvel Mystery Comics #22-27 (August 1941-January 1942). Art by Ben Thompsonīut Ka-Zar was about to have a second life, jumping from Pulp to comics. What must be noted is that the story takes place in Africa, never going anywhere never the South Pole. Our Pulp hero was cancelled after the third issue. As Robert Michael Bobb Cotter points out The Great Monster Magazines (2008): the only thing Ka-Zar accomplished was making all Tarzan clones that follow have names that start with a K. He goes on to do what most jungle lords do, not really distinguishing himself much from the herd. With his lion Zar, he become Ka-Zar, or “brother of Zar”. In these three magazines, we meet Ka-Zar, a jungle lord who is actually David Rand, lost son of John and Constance Rand. It was followed by two more issues in Art by J. The first issue had a short novel called “King of Claw and Fang” by Bob Byrd. Based on the ideas in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (1914) it repeats many of the standard elements like a child abandoned in the wild. October 1936 presented the first issue of a new jungle Pulp called Ka-Zar. That is Ka-Zar’s origin in a Pulp magazine. But before we return to Jack Kirby there is one other Pulp stop-off we have to make. Other important novels to mention include Dian of the Lost Land (1935) by Edison Marshall, reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1949, which has “Moss World” secreted away under the ice, and The Man Who Missed the War (1945) by Dennis Wheatley, which feels more like a Haggard novel with its lost race of Atlanteans. “Jackson Cole” is not the last writer to borrow from ERB as you will see. Much of what follows is reminiscent of Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) with a race of giant overlords ruling ordinary sized men. The opening scene is right out of The Land That Time Forgot, with a submariner attacked by a plesiosaur. The crew of The Golden Harpoon go through a geyser to arrive in a world of dinosaurs and gigantic men. The real author is not known, but his inspiration is easily determined. One of these is “Valley of the Giants” ( Thrilling Adventures, July 1933) by the house name, Jackson Cole. Now authors began setting stories in, on and under the ice cap of the South Pole. Unknown artistīurroughs opened the flood gates to the world of Pulp. More importantly here, we are in the remote Southern hemisphere. On the island of Caspak, individuals go through all the steps of evolution, beginning as fish and ending as the evil Wieroos. Unlike Verne, ERB found the idea of evolution fascinating. The Land That Time Forgot ( Blue Book, August, October, December1918) features an island near Antarctica called Caprona or Caspak. He created at least three lost worlds of dinosaurs and cavemen with Pellucidar, Caspak and Pal-U-Don. From the 1975 film written by Michael Moorcock and James CawthornĮdgar Rice Burroughs took Doyle’s idea and ran with it. Verne scoffed at the idea of evolution.) We are getting closer but we need the Antarctic. (Jules Verne, again, had dinosaurs inside the Earth in Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864. It’s not Antarctica but it is the first novel to bring a world of prehistoric monsters and prehistoric men together. The creator of Sherlock Holmes delivers the goods: a lost world of cavemen and dinosaurs on a remote South American plateau. Enter The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lovecraft.ĭespite the suggestion of the idea of an opening that leads to an interior world, none of these guys go that far. The weird, unexplained ending led to several writers penning sequels or conclusions. In this unfinished novel, Poe tells a long sea story that ends with the hero going farther and farther south. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe is the first. But before we can go there, we must back up the bus to 1838, because there are a number of novels that were important to the development of the idea of a lost world hidden in the Antarctic. Only they did return, many times between 19. My world…jungle! Only Ka-Zar is lord of jungle! You go! No Return!” Art by Harry Rountree After defeating the bad guys, Ka-Zar says: “No talk! Your world above.
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When they arrive they descend down a crack in the ice to find dinosaurs and a jungle dude named Ka-Zar. Jack has the X-Men go to the Antarctic when a team of scientists are attacked by a saber-toothed tiger. Art by Jack Kirby and Chic Stoneįirst off, let’s begin with Jack Kirby, the man who created the Savage Land for The X-Men #10 (March 1965).
Or is it all that obvious? Who was the first person to place a lost world at the South Pole? The answer is complicated… and fun.
The Savage Land from the Ka-Zar comics has an obvious Pulp heritage.
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