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To show which I consider among the best of one of the most gifted classic comic book artists, I've chosen this example of his character "Tor", a story which took place "1.000.000 Years B.C.". The title was published in Mexico as "El Despertar del Mundo" (you can see some covers elsewhere in this site), or "The World Awakes" -a name far more attractive than the original one, in my humble opinion. Kubert's style was at its most enthusiastic and dynamic stage, and he produced masterful secuencial art, beautiful anatomic renderings and realistic beasts. Some readers, however, found the sight of human beings pitted against dinosaurs outrageous, considering the 70.000.000 years span Science places between them... Artist Kubert and scriptwriter Norman Maurer made their point, in a page in which they addressed the readers directly, affirming that "some semblance of Man COULD have existed at the time of slow extinction of the giant reptiles"... Nevertheless, in further stories they began to use saber-tooth tigers and wild giant wolves instead. Most of fans, anyway (me among them) gleefully left Paleontology behind and enojoyed Kubert & Maurer's fantasies for what they were worth: first-class entertainment! This is page 2 from the first story of issue #4 (28 February 1955), regretfully the last of the Spanish version run. While one can find more striking panels in previous issues, I took this one for it is unbound, and therefore easier to place on the scanner screen with no distortion of the image. |
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