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		*1925 - 1949*
1860 - 1924			1950 - 1959

PAL-UL-DON

Author/Creator: Edgar Rice Burroughs
First appearance: Tarzan the Terrible
Media: Novel
Year: 1921
Located: Zaire, Africa
Plot/Premise: In a frantic search for Jane Tarzan has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real world filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja.

Adaptations

Tarzan the Terrible

Incredible Pal-ul-don

Fauna

J. Allen St. John

Gryf (J. Allen St. John)

Gryf (Boris Vallejo)

Russ Manning

Garth (Russ Manning)

Russ Manning

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Wikipedia: Tarzan the Terrible

ERBzine: Pal-ul-Don by Cristian Sildan

URBlist: Pal-ul-Don Glossary by Rick Johnston

Tarzan's Africa by David Bruce "Tangor" Bozarth

Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project: Tarzan the Terrible

Gold Key Comics: Tarzan the Terrible and Incredible Pal-ul-Don

Rick Johnson's Edgar Rice Burroughs Website: Pal-ul-Don Fauna

PLUTONIA

First appearance: Plutonia (Utazás Plutóniába)
Author/Creator: Vladimir A. Obruchev
Media: Novel
Year: 1924
Located: Earth's interior
Plot/Premise: A Russian Artic expedition inadvertently enters the interior of the earth. Building a raft they travel on a "river of time" from which they observe, the further south they go (on the earth's inner surface) the older, geologically, the life becomes. They encounter a wide variety of dinosaurs and eventually escape only to find a surface world engulfed in world war.

Fauna


Carnivorous dinosaur


Stegosaurus	Triceratops


Brontosaurus

Pteranodon	Plesiosaurs


Ichthyosaur	Iguanodons

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Wikipedia: Vladimir Obruchev

Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev (in Spanish)

SOMEWHERE IN ANTARCTICA

First appearance: The Greatest Adventure
Author/Creator: John Taine
Media: Novel
Year: 1929
Located: Antarctica
Plot/Premise: When a sea captain brings a baby dinosaur to the home of a wealthy, brilliant scientist, it triggers an expedition that leads to an unexplored, quake-shaken Antarctica and to a lost world over-run with the "dinosaurs" that are not what they appear.

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Wikipedia: Eric Temple Bell (John Taine)

YU-ATLANCHI

First appearance: The Face in the Abyss
Author/Creator: Abraham Merritt
Media: Novel
Year: 1931
Located: Among the Andes
Plot/Premise: Treasure seekers discover a million-year-old Atlantian civilization ruled over by the Snake Mother, Adana, the last of a race of superintelligent serpent people whose servants, the Old Race, are immortal. Humans, the Yu Atlanchians, share this land with ancient lizard men and Xinli, small predatory dinosaurs that roam in large hunting packs and which are used by the Yu-Atlanchi in sport and as war-steeds.

Rodney Matthews

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Wikipedia: Face in the Abyss

Project Gutenberg: Face in the Abyss text

Skulls in the Stars: A. Merritt’s The Face in the Abyss

Kvetching About the Klassics: A Review of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and A. Merritt's The Face in the Abyss

SKULL ISLAND

First appearance: King Kong
Authors/Creators: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Ruth Rose, James Ashmore Creelman and Edgar Wallace
Media: Film
Year: 1933
Located: At approximately 12°S 78°E — somewhere off the coast of Sumatra
Plot/Premise: There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of the island which is shaped like a human skull, hence its foreboding name. It is the home of the eponymous King Kong and several other species of creatures, mostly prehistoric and in some cases species that should have been extinct long before the rise of mammalian creatures such as gorillas, along with a primitive society of humans.

Map from 2005 film

Fauna: 1933 feature


The 1933 expeditions' first dinosaur sighting: A Stegosaurus


Stegosaurus	Brontosaurus


Pit lizard	Tyrannosaurus


Kong dispatches a snake-like, freshwater "elasmosaur"	Brontosaurus attacks


Pteranodon	Styracosaurus


Dragon-like beast	Sea monster





Fauna: 2005 feature


Brontosaurus	Venatosaurus


Foetodon	Vestatosaurus


Ferrucutus	Terapusmordax

Sequels/Other appearances: Son of Kong (1933); King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962); King Kong Escapes (1967); King Kong (1976); King Kong Lives (1986); King Kong (2005)
Adaptations: King Kong (Novel, 1932, Delos W. Lovelace); "King Kong" (Short story, 1933, Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell); King Kong (Magazine serial, 1933, Walter F. Ripperger); Kong: King of Skull Island (Novel, 2005, Brad Strickland, John Michlig, Joe DeVito), King Kong (Novelization, 2005, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson); The Island of the Skull (Prequel novel, 2005, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson); Kong Reborn (Novel, 2005, Russell Blackford)

Don Marquez

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Vestatosaurus by Greg Broadmore Kong is King.net

Find Skull Island game

Wikivisual: Skull Island

Kong: King of Skull Island

Filmsite: King Kong (1933)

Bad Movie Planet: King Kong

Cinemassacre.com: King Kong

Wikipedia: Skull Island and King Kong

Television Tropes and Idioms.org: King Kong

Marrkosia: King Kong Comics and Graphic Novels

King Kong: Part 1 - The Creatures of Skull Island

ERBzine: King Kong I: The Lost Civilization of Skull Island

MonsterZine.com: The Making of King Kong: A Natural Horror Adventure

Wikizilla: Skull Island, List of Creatures from Skull Island and Category: King Kong

National Geographic: King Kong Island Home Is Pure Fantasy, Ecology Experts Say

THUNDER ISLAND

First appearance: Land of Terror
Author/Creator: Lester Dent
Media: Novel
Year: 1933
Located: South Pacific Island, "some distance from New Zealand"
Plot/Premise: In a race to obtain a special element required to make the Smoke of Eternity, Doc Savage lands on volcanic, uninhabited Thunder Island in the South Pacific. While circling above the island’s massive, steam-shrouded crater, the seaplane carrying Doc and crew is attacked by giant flying reptiles, living, breathing pterodactyls of a long-dead age... Prehistoric creatures would be encountered at least twice more over the course of the Doc Savage series, in The Other World (1940) and The Time Terror (1943).

Fauna

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Doc Savage Wiki

Comic Book DB: Doc Savage

InsaneJournal: The Land of Terror

Bronze Icon - Doc Savage: The Land of Terror

Thunder Island and the Smoke of Eternity by Art Sippo

Dusk Before the Dawn: The Land of Terror by Larry Ketchersid

BENEATH LONDON

First appearance: "When London Fell"
Author/Creator: W. J. Passingham
Media: Magazine serial
Year: 1937
Located: An enormous cavern beneath London
Plot/Premise: An abyss under London open up and from within the giant cracks prehistoric monsters issue forth much to the dismay of its inhabitants.

Steve Bissette and Cayetano “Cat” Garza

LOST LAND

Author/Creator: Robert Moore Williams
First appearance: Jongor of the Lost Land
Media: Novel
Year: 1940
Located: Inland Australia
Plot/Premise: Isolated from the world by mountains, valleys and desert, the Lost Land has undergone a unique evolution. Many dinosaurs dwell here along with various monsters and human civilizations. It is in this world a Tarzan-like hero, Jongor (John Gordon) has many adventures.
Sequels/Other appearances: The Return of Jongor (1946), Jongor Fights Back (1951)

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ERBzine: The Saga of Jongor

Wikipedia: Robert Moore Williams

Things I Have Read: Jongor of Lost Land

Rough Edges: Jongor of Lost Land/Robert Moore Williams

UNKNOWN ISLAND

First appearance: Unknown Island
Author/Creator: Robert T. Shannon, Jack Harvey, Jack Bernhard
Media: Film
Year: 1948
Located: South Pacific Island
Plot/Premise: A former Marine who, while on duty, discovered a previously unknown island in the Pacific where dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have somehow managed to escape extinction and live as they did millions of years ago. Still traumatized by the experience, he returns with a photographer and others to prove their existence. They soon find out his story is true, and why the danger has taken such a toll on him, as they find themselves on the run from hungry dinosaurs.

Fauna