Re: Phil Currie and Burroughs?

[Michael Skrepnick <palaeopaint@dinosaursinart.com>]

Right you are Dan.  I have to admit, my particular interest in Burroughs was 
the "John Carter of Mars" series, I never have read the Tarzan books, just 
recall a couple of the circa 1960's comic books.  When Phil asked me to do a 
"Gryf", he just described what it was compared to Triceratops and I assumed 
it was a Pellucidar animal.  I recall an image sequence from one of the 
comics featuring Pal-ul don with a city / hewn marble fortress populated by 
primitive ape people?. . . or was that Planet of the Apes. . . I suddenly 
find myself captured in a temporal rift storyline vortex. sucking me into a 
black abyss. Aaughhh. . what's happenninnggggg ggg gg gg!

MIke S.

> The "Gryf" is found Pal-ul-don somewhere in  Burrough's Africa:
>
> http://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0107.html
>
> Good old Tarzan  had not one, but TWO places where he romped with 
> dinosaurs,
> Pal-ul-don and  Pellucidar, a world at the earth's core. This is in line 
> with
> Burrough's  penchant for making things scarier by adding extra pairs of 
> legs
> and arms, as  Dave Krentz is dealing with now.
> If I remember correctly  from the comics, Tarz would hitch a ride behind 
> the
> frill of a gryf by wacking  it's rostrum with a stick and calling out,
> "Hoo-EEE!" Hey, I bought it when I  was 10.
>
> DV