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Dinosaur of the Deep

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Turok; an elasmosaur

Synopsis: Turok fights an elasmosaur.

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Duckbill and His Relatives

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Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction

Character(s): Trachodon; Allosaurus

Synopsis: Five panel illustrations, with educational captions beneath, about Trachodon, the duckbilled dinosaur, and his relatives.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Dinosaur of the Deep

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Turok; Andar; Ski-Yu (their pet wolf)

Synopsis: Turok and Andar are lost in a network of deep canyons in the Carlsbad area, where ancient forms of life still exist. An earthquake has dammed the river, and water is rising to inundate them. They make a raft, escape, and transport marooned cliff-dwellers to the mesa. The mesa-dwellers guard the cliff-top entry to where there is food. Turok teaches them to fish until the Water-Monster appears (Elasmosaur). Andar falls into the water, Turok fights the dinosaur, and saves Andar and a girl. The dam breaks, the water level drops, and Turok & Co. depart. Soon, the cliff dwellers can WALK home.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Working title was "Turok and the Water Monster."

Danger at the Nest

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Genres: nature

Character(s): Mother Pteranodon; Hungry Dimetrodon

Synopsis: Hungry Dimetrodon climbs the tree toward food: the baby pteranodons that are just hatching. Mother Pteranodon lures him down, pretending to be wounded. She tears her wing, and cannot fly away; but she leaps off the cliff, and glides off. Later, healed, she returns to the nest, and finds new hungry hatchlings.

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The Search for Fire

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Genres: adventure, historical

Character(s): Paku

Synopsis: Paku watches the fire at the cave mouth during the snow storm as the hunters seek game. He drifts off to sleep, and a clump of snow falls on the fire extinguishing it. The hunters return with meat, and his father sends him out into the storm alone to find fire. He finds it.

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Turok Seeks the Trail to Freedom

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Turok; Andar; Ski-Yu (their pet wolf); Wind Racer (their primitive horse)

Synopsis: Turok and Andar scale a cliff to escape from the canyon, but find more cliffs. Andar snaps a ligament when he twists his ankle, and Turok searches for wood for a crutch. Turok encounters primitive horses, his first encounter with equines. He breaks a horse, so Andar can have "a four-legged crutch," naming it Wind Racer. Andar and Ski-Yu fight off a Dimetrodon. All take refuge in a boxed in area. Turok scales the cliff to the top, out of the canyon at last! He returns for Andar, an earthquake brings the canyon walls crashing. Escape is cut off. Ski-Yu and Wind Racer flee the rocks but return.

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Pages: 14

Notes: Writer Gaylord Du Bois expands the Turok family to four, with the addition of Wind Racer, their horse. Turok and Andar are pre-Columbian Indians, ignorant of the horse, which has not yet been introduced to the New World.

The Tools of Early Men

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Genres: informational, non-fiction

Character(s): Early Man; Wife

Synopsis: Six panel illustrations with captions, depicting prehistoric people using the stone chopper for domestic tasks, turning it into a weapon with the addition of a handle; using flint spear blades for hunting; flint knives, bone needles, "and his wife made his clothes"; and carved antler spearheads for fishing.

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Free Game at Dairy Queen

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Notes: Spend ten cents on Dairy Queen (sundaes, malts, shakes, and cones) and get a free plastic variation on "Pick Up Sticks," with multi-colored pieces shaped as rakes, shovels, hoes, spades, axes, and pitch-forks. "Dairy Queen. Home of 'The cone with the curl on top.'"