The Twilight World

History: When his college professor scoffed at his term paper concerning the nature of time, an angered Paul Harper stormed from his office. Going for a drive with his girlfriend, Cathy, Harper drove down an unfamiliar stretch of road, and soon found his car enveloped in a strange mist. Stopping the car, Paul and Cathy made their way through the mist on foot. They emerged and found themselves in a prehistoric land. They encountered such prehistoric creatures as a sabre-tooth tiger and a tyrannosaur, then they were captured by a hostile tribe of Neanderthal men. The tribe was going to sacrifice the two to a pterodactyl, but they were saved by a primative man who identified himself as “Cro”. Cro led the two back to the mist. Paul and Cathy entered the mist, and emerged again in the present by their car. They told their story to the professor, who wrote everything off as an hallucination, but that didn't explain the tiger-teeth necklace that Cro tossed into the back seat of the car…

Comment: Speculation - The Twilight World was inhabited by prehistoric animals from different time periods that historically did not exist at the same time (i.e. mammals existed with dinosaurs). Some possible explanations for this are:

1. The Twilight World was a creation of Immortus the Time Lord (introduced in Avengers # 10) who populated it with animals he pulled from different eras of the timestream for some as yet unknown agenda. The strange mist was the result of a time warp. The idea of travelling through time while walking through a fog bank was also used in the story “The Madness!” (see The Asylum Keeper)
2. The Twilight World was actually The Savage Land (introduced in X-Men # 10). The Savage Land has animals from different eras existing side-by-side. The strange mist somehow transported the two through space rather than time (perhaps the work of the sorcerer Khor (who fought the Golden Age Vision in Marvel Mystery Comics # 22), who had a base in a prehistoric jungle).
   In X-Men: The Hidden Years # 4, the mutant Magneto stated that low-level subterranean radiation in the Savage Land made everyone mildly telepathic, thus allowing people from diverse cultures to communicate with each other (which explained how everyone seemed to speak English). This would explain how Paul and Cathy were able to speak to Cro.

Paul and Cathy were menaced by a RED tyrannosaur. Could this possibly be Devil Dinosaur? Was the Twilight World actually the extra-dimensional Dinosaur World of Jack Kirby's “Devil Dinosaur” series?
In Devil Dinosaur # 9, it was established that there is a space-warp connecting the Dinosaur World to Earth; possibly Paul and Cathy went through this portal.

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