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| Publisher | Gold Key Comics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Mystery Comics Digest #3 (Apr. 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Donald F. Glut andJesse Santos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Species | Cro-Magnon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of origin | PrehistoricEarth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partnerships | Lorn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tragg and the Sky Gods was acomic-book title published byGold Key Comics in the mid-1970s. The series was created by writerDonald F. Glut and artistJesse Santos.[1] Later, artistDan Spiegle would work on the title.
The character first appeared inMystery Comics Digest #3, published in April 1972.[2] His next appearance was inMystery Comics Digest #9 in January 1973. A series,Tragg and the Sky Gods, would then run from #1 (June 1975) to #8 (February 1977).[3] The last original Tragg story appeared inGold Key Spotlight #9 in September 1977.Whitman, the successor to Gold Key, later reprinted the first issue as #9 in May 1982.
Tragg and the Sky Gods was a mix ofscience fiction andprehistoric fiction. The book narrated the tale of a group of advanced aliens who landed on Earth in the distant past and experimented on theNeanderthals they found there, producing twoCro-Magnons, who would become Tragg and his mate, Lorn. Tragg and Lorn would thus be the ancestors of all modern humans. Writer Glut tied Tragg into other series he created at Gold Key, by having Tragg's Neanderthal brother Jarn appear inDagar the Invincible.
Writer Don Glut...and artist Jesse Santos...supplied the comic, in which aliens from interstellar space had a profound effect on a tribe of Stone Age people.
