
GYOR or GRYF or TRICERATOPS (1921)
Boris' cover for Tarzan
the Terrible
SOURCE: Tarzan
the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs (All-Story, February-March
1921)
Tarzan
at the Earth's Core (Blue Book, September 1929)
DESCRIPTION: "No description of the beast looming tremendously before them could convey an adequate impression of its titanic proportions or its frightful mien. At the first glance Tarzan was impressed by its remarkable likeness to the Gryfs of Pal-ul-don. It had the two large horns above the eyes, a medial horn on the nose, a horny beak and a great, horny hood or transverse crest over the neck, and its coloration was similar but more subdued, the predominant note being a slaty gray with yellowish belly and face. The blue bands around the eyes were less well marked and the red of the hood and the bony protuberances along the spine were less brilliant than in the Gryf. That it was herbivorous, a fact that he had learned from Jana, convinced him that he was looking upon an almost unaltered type of the gigantic triceratop that had, with its fellow dinosaurs, ruled the ancient Jurassic world." (Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
NOTES: The Horibs of Pellucidar like to hunt the gyor for its meat. In Pal-U-Don they are used as draft and riding animals.
HISTORY: Burroughs makes the name for the triceratops related in Pellucidar and Pal-u-don, Gryf and gyor.
These comic book creators
obviously didn't get that it was a Triceratops!
This issue of Korak got it right.