Captain's Library: ONE MILLION YEARS BC (Now in COLOR) Conclusion

Previously: dinosaurs, cavemen, beautiful women in fur bikinis...

Cover from the first publication in House of Hammer #14 (1978) by Brian Lewis

The adaptation does downplay the human (or caveperson) side of the story to emphasize the spectacular dinosaur battles.

So we don't get to see Bolton rendering the (censored in America but not England) erotic dance sequence or the Raquel Welch/Martine Beswicke catfight.

After One Million Years BC, there were two other caveman/dinosaur epics from Hammer Films, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Creatures that Time Forgot, both of which used dinosaur stock footage from this film and featured beautiful women (including a Playboy Playmate) in fur bikinis!

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Captain's Library: ONE MILLION YEARS BC (Now in COLOR) Part 1

We Presented the Original b/w Version of This Comic Adaptation of Hammer's One Million Years BC  HERE...

...and we recently found that it was reprinted...in glorious color...but with a couple of modifications to avoid licensing restrictions! 

To Be Concluded...Wednesday!

Adaptation script by Steve Moore 

Art by John Bolton

Color art by Tim Smith

Published in Eclipse's John Bolton's Halls of Horror #2, 1985

While the movie is a remake of the already-classic 1940 film One Million BC (which we have a surprise about coming Friday!), and features kool stop-motion dinosaurs animated by the legendary Ray Harryhausen, the big selling point was Raquel Welch, who also appeared, in slightly more clothes (skintight scuba gear), in another classic sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage, that same year.
The film's poster and a blowup of the promo photo (left) it was based on became best-selling posters adorning bedrooms, dorm rooms, and dens of genre film buffs and/or fans of beautiful women.
The outdoor scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, when the average daily temperature was 60-65 degrees...except this was a cooler-than-normal winter!
Lots of goose bumps!
Roughly nine minutes were cut from the American version, including a provocative dance by co-star (and two-time James Bond girl) Martine Beswicke.
Despite several restorations done for the domestic laser disc and DVD releases, the missing footage is not available on the US DVD (but it was on the laser disc).  If you have a multi-region player, you can see it on the British DVD!
Hammer did two other prehistoric epics which featured stock footage from this film: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Creatures the World Forgot.
Though both pix featured scantly-clad cavewomen including a Playboy Playmate, neither was as successful.

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Captain's Theatre DINO-RIDERS "The Adventure Begins!" x2

The Dino-Riders'  Video Life Began on VideoCassette Before Being Aired in Syndication!

But, the videocassette version of the first episode had some fascinating differences!

Click HERE to see the extended videocasstte episode!

Click HERE to see the shorter/reedited version seen in syndication!

(Note creator Gerry Conway is listed as "Jerry Conway"!)

Finally, a rarely-seen commercial for the Dino-Riders "Complete Collection" Toys HERE!

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Captain's Library DINO-RIDERS "Path" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...thrust back in time to perhistoric Earth, human-like extraterrestrials from Veloria and the Rulons, aliens descended from various species, continue their war.

The Velarians communicate with the dinosaurs, forming an alliance, which not all of the Veleron agree with!

OTOH, the Rulons force the dinosaurs to serve them as slaves...

Tomorrow, a Special Captain's Theatre Presentation: the UNaired Pilot Episode!

Developed by Gerry & Carla Conway from a concept for a new toy line from Tyco Toys, this first issue of the comic mini-series adapted (and expanded) the pilot episode.
Written by George Carragone, penciled by Kelly Jones, and inked by Danny Bulanadi, the expansion included somewhat adult elements that wouldn't have been allowed in the kid-oriented animated series!

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It's Space Opera, Time Travel and Dinosaurs...

...all wrapped up in one package!

To Be Continued...Wednesday

Developed by Gerry & Carla Conway from a concept for a new toy line from Tyco Toys, this first issue of the comic mini-series adapted (and expanded) the pilot episode.

Written by George Carragone, penciled by Kelly Jones, and inked by Danny Bulanadi, the expansion included somewhat adult elements that wouldn't have been allowed in the kid-oriented animated series!

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Captain's Library STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet" Part 1

...to Boldly Go Where No Dinosaur Has Gone Before!

Let's join the crew of the Starship Enterprise some time after the beginning of their second five-year mission (as shown in Star Trek the Motion Picture [1979])!

You can listen to this story by clicking HERE and an audio player will open in another window!

Stop the audio now.
You'll be able to continue the audio...and the story tomorrow at Atomic Kommie Comics!

Power Records PR45 STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet"(1979) is different from most of the "record and comic book" series.

It's one of two tales published after the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture, showing the crew in the grey and beige uniforms from the film.
However, the Enterprise itself is rendered as an amalgam of the TV series & movie versions.
And phasers and other tech are incorrectly-illustrated all the way through the story.
Neither of these tales were produced by Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, as all the previous tv show-based stories were.
Instead, Kirby Martin & Associates, a company that handled licensing art on merchandise like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and lunchboxes, was brought in to package the graphics.
Pavel Chekov, who was not on any of the previous Power Records, makes his audio debut here.
And Hikaru Sulu, who was illustrated as African-American in previous Power Records comics is finally rendered correctly as Japanese!