Re: Phil Currie and Burroughs?

[Glen Ledingham <glenled@yahoo.com>]

It was also most inspiring to see a picture of a
Triceratops biting a rhinoceros in half while T.
remarks "I wondered what they ate".  

How about a field trip to Pal-Ul-Don?  Or a type
specimen of Tharkus barsoomensis?  Laugh if you want,
but I suspect that images like that have helped fund
and populate a lot of digs. 

Glen Ledingham



--- Michael Skrepnick <palaeopaint@dinosaursinart.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > 
> 
>