Four Color #845

Based on the Universal-International CinemaScope film, this Dell Four Color one-shot drops readers into a primeval Antarctic hollow where dinosaurs still reign. Reynold Brown's cover painting makes an immediate impression: a massive, red-hued tyrannosaur dominates the foreground with jaws agape, while a long-necked plesiosaur-like creature rises from the waters behind a group of imperiled humans clinging to a raft — and a helicopter hovers in the misty distance, the only thin thread connecting this lost world to civilization. With interior art by Alex Toth and the tagline promising "a Lost World of Prehistoric Monsters," this 1957 issue is a wonderful snapshot of mid-century adventure comics at their most vividly imaginative.