V | World’s FairTHE FIRST COMIC BOOK he picks out for himself is an issue of Turok, Son of Stone, published by Gold Key Comics. It captures his imagination because of its fully painted cover, which depicts a pair of Native-American warriors, Turok and Andar, doing battle with a pack of tyrannosaurs—rendered fleshy pink, like real living things. The dinosaurs remind him of the ones he has seen at drive-in theater movies like Dinosaurus and The Valley of Gwangi—realistic yet somehow off. His brother has told him that this is because the movie dinosaurs must be “rotor- scoped” into real-life footage—footage of square-jawed American actors in white cowboy hats and riding chaps, or blonde and buxom actresses, screaming in distress. In the book Turok and Andar have discovered a lost valley from
