...a US Navy expedition to discover the source of a flow of warm water from under the Antarctic ice sheet discovers an oasis of tropical vegetation and not-as-extinct as they thought prehistoric creatures, as well as a survivor from a previous group!
Though the editors and color separators followed Alex Toth's suggestions for color effects, sometimes they went awry, making the art a little hard to follow.
For the sake of clarity, here's the original art for the "serpent's" attack on the survivor of the earlier expedition, Hunter...
Bonus: the original trailer for the movie!
Be Here Friday as We Boldly Go Where No Dinosaur Has Gone Before... Support Secret Sanctum of Captain Video
Adapted from the film's original script by writer Robert Ryder (his only mainstream comics credit) and artist Alex Toth for Dell's Four Color #845 (1957).
Toth took a lot of care with this project, including suggesting color effects for certain panels as shown by the original art above, which you can compare to the printed version!
Note: the movie was shot and released in black & white, so Toth's ideas about color effects are his own (pretty damn good) concepts!
The first part appeared at Western Comics Adventures! Just click on the link above!)
Dr Bill Baxter is told that his elderly uncle David Sheldon has been murdered! But he left a will with a lawyer mentioning an inheritance of a gold mine, of which Bill will receive half. The other half is to go to an orphanage run by Miss Mary Fuller. However, to locate the gold mine and fulfill the terms of the will, Baxter must journey to Canada, where his uncle lived and died, and meet with Miss Fuller since both he and the lady each have only 1/2 of the map that leads to the mine. What he doesn't know is that the criminals who murdered his uncle lie in wait to ambush him, steal the map along with his identification and little black bag, and pretend to be him. They waylay the sawbones, who barely survives, but manages to get to a nearby RCMP station. The doctor and policeman confront the imposter, who manages to bluff the Mountie into thinking Baxter is the imposter! But when a medical emergency happens to a child at the orphanage, the fake doctor is forced by his confederates to attend to the deathly-ill patient...
This adaptation of the episode "Storm Over King City" in Dell's Four Color Comics #877 (1958) was illustrated by Alex Toth, whom Old West comics fans remember as the artist on the comics based on Disney's Zorro TV series! The writer, however, is unknown, As for the 1958-59 syndicated TV series' protagonist...
Though he did not carry a gun, Dr Bill Baxter was not a wimp by any measure. The medical man used his wits, medical knowledge, his fists, and, occasionally, other people's shooting irons, to aid those who needed help.
Rex Allen, who played Baxter, performed as a rodeo rider while in high school.
After graduation, he took up singing, first in vaudeville, then on radio, becoming a popular country/Western singers.
Like most of his contemporaries, he soon was doing Western b-movies as a singing cowboy nicknamed "The Arizona Cowboy", teamed up with comedy-relief sidekicks including Buddy Ebsen and Slim Pickens.
After a couple of dozen films, Rex tried to make the transition to TV with Frontier Doctor, but the show was cancelled after a single season.
But Allen made yet another transition, and became a successful voice-over artist and narrator, primarily for Disney film and tv productions.
TRIVIA:
Besides Frontier Cowboy, Rex had his own self-titled comic book series from Dell Comics that ran for thirty-one issues!
Allen was a cousin of Gunsmoke cast member Glenn Strange, who played bartender Sam Noonan.
Rex's son, Rex Allen, Jr., is a successful singer.
...here's a never-reprinted Yuletide tale from over a half-century ago that we originally-presented over a decade ago, so it's likely most of the blog's current readers have never seen it!
The cover story for DC'sHot Wheels #6 (1971) was written by Len Wein, with art by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, following Alex Toth's character designs from the 1969-1971 animated series based on the toy line.
Toth also illustrated most of the stories in the comic series!
