TOR vs. TOR

TOR #1
July 2008
Written and Illustrated by: Joe Kubert
A Six-Issue Miniseries

Tor is a prehistoric man, he's the curious type and full of wonder as created by writer and artist Joe Kubert, and has long been in the comic book realm.

This run of TOR came out in 2008 and having had some old TOR from the 70's I had to pick it up. I've dug out this first issue and one from the the 1975 run, issue #3, to see how things have or haven't changed.

In this first issue; "Tor: A Prehistoric Odyssey" our hero, a strong silent type of the past, has been outcast from his tribe and is left to wandering and surviving on his own.


Tor goes off on his quest, aiming to explore what is off in the horizon, a place that his elders avoided. Kubert narrates each step of Tor's journey sharing his survival instinct through the uncertainty that lies ahead in this bright and fresh colored world. Filled with curiosity Tor is and ready to meet his fate finding moments of paradise...



and moments of danger...


Tor is ultimately a hero type, though he takes care of himself first, he is not the kind to let others suffer if he can be of some help and that was part of his drive in the earlier series as well.

This issue of TOR was a bi-monthly series from DC.
Vol. 1 No. 3 Oct 1975
By Joe Kubert

Kubert created Tor back in the 50's and I learned he was one of the first characters in a 3D comic book. As the Tor series continued off and on this issue from the 70's was very Tarzan-esque. The prehistoric times were very jungle heavy and Tor even has his primate pal, Chee Chee.

It is understandable that Kubert leaned a bit towards Tarzan themes as he was in charge of Edgar Rice Burroughs properties at DC and also drew for those books in the 70's after-all.



Tor is an entertaining read and a fun adventure from a 1,000,000 years ago. I must say that I found the art of the earlier Tor more exciting. There's a darker color tone with a lot of action going on and they really filled out the panels or I'm probably just nostalgic for that old comic book look.



Now I'm leaning towards digging out some of my Tarzan books, will that be next weeks? Hmmm...

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