—Jim ScullySgt. Scully of the Dinosaur Patrol reportin' in, sir -- bagged me a big 'un, sir!
Appearing in "The Coming of Skull the Slayer!"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Scully (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Ann Reynolds (First appearance)
- Dr. Raymond Corey (First appearance)
- Jeff Turner (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- NLF (Only in flashback) (National Liberation Front)
Other Characters:
- US Air Force
- Marc Evans (First appearance; dies)
- Sid Jacowsky (First appearance; dies)
- United States Army
- Freddy (First appearance)
- Richard Nixon (Only in flashback)
- Pam Scully (First appearance) (Jim Scully's ex-wife) (Only in flashback)
- Jeff Scully (First appearance; dies) (Jim Scully's brother) (Only in flashback)
- God / Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Solomon (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- Joey Bishop (Mentioned in narration or thoughts) (Topical Reference)
- James Bond (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- Napoleon Solo (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- John Steed (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Pigs (Mentioned)
- Primitive Men
- Dinosaurs
- Pterosaurs
Realities:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- Bermuda (Main story and flashback)
- Bermuda Triangle
- United States of America (Only in flashback)
- Miami, Florida (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- Washington, D.C. (Only in flashback)
- Capitol Building (Only in flashback)
- Nebraska (Only in flashback)
- Oklahoma (Mentioned)
- Georgia (Mentioned)
- Disneyland, Anaheim, California (Mentioned)
- Asia (Only in flashback)
- Viet Nam (Only in flashback)
- North America
- Hell (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
Vehicles:
- Lockheed Hercules (aircraft)
Synopsis for "The Coming of Skull the Slayer!"
Pilot, special operative and Vietnam POW, James Scully, who after being freed from captivity, returns to find his world turned upside down. His wife has divorced him and is in the arms of another man, his parents have died of grief and his little brother is a dope fiend. When Jim returns to his parents' home (as he has nowhere else to go) his brother attacks him with a knife in a fit of grief and dope-induced hysteria. His brother ends up dead and Jim goes on the lam for fear of being blamed for his death. Months later, Jim is captured in Bermuda and is about to be transported to a maximum security prison - also on the flight are Dr. Raymond Corey, Ann Farrow Reynolds and Jeff Turner. The plane enters a time warp and they end up 250 million years in the past. There, in a savage world that Scully understands, he begins to fulfill his destiny - his first conquest: an eight ton Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Notes
- Includes a one-page article "Old Funny Animals" by Marv Wolfman which gets into the genesis of this series.
