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Issue: Tara on the Dark Continent #1
Publication Date: January 1974
 
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Publisher: FlagAC
Indicia Publisher: Paragon Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black and white interior; black on blue cover (issue #1), color cover (issue #2)
Dimensions: standard U.S. magazine
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (logo)
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
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Miscellaneous
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Cover is printed in black ink on blue paper.
The Legend of Dark Continent

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
Industrial tycoon T. C. Fremont, at the urging of his daughter...
Background on the Dark Continent and Tara's first adventure from Paragon Presents (AC, 1970 series) #2.
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This story is printed in black ink on blue paper, the indicia is also on this page.
Challenge from the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
An Alien
Helplessly, Tara watches the strange craft...
Tara watches a strange aircraft crash into her lagoon. She dives in to rescue the pilot and is barely able to save him from an underwater carnivorous plant. When she comes to the surface she finds a group of men led by Vic Marco. He reveals that the pilot is an alien. The men then attempt to grab Tara but she defends herself. When she tries to grab the alien to help him get away, he telekinetically throws her through the air. Vic then threatens to shoot her.
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Black and white. Artwork is dated 1971.
How to Draw Tara

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
Hi there, would-be artists!
Some instructions on how to draw Tara, including various poses as examples. The best entries will be presented in the next issue.
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Miscellaneous
1
Black and white.
Dr. Rivits, I Presume?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
An Alien; Gip; Mad Dog
My, my, my! That's just pitiful!
Dr. Rivits kills Vic before he can shoot Tara because he wants her alive as a hostage. He ties up Tara so he can go back to working with the alien in finding out the secrets of the universe. Tara breaks free and goes after Dr. Rivits. The alien casts Tara into a parallel universe. Tara sees a strange alien animal in trouble and rescues it. Evidently this was a test as Tara is then pulled back to the Dark Continent. Dr. Rivits tries to fly away but the alien blows up his helicopter, and then flies away in his own spacecraft. Tara and Janis find four eggs that the alien spacecraft left behind.
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Miscellaneous
10
Black and white. Artwork dated 1972.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (movie poster)
?; ? (photography)
?; ? (photography)
?
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth; Victoria Vetri
Victoria Vetri (as Sanna, photographs)
Enter an age of unknown terrors...
First page is a print of the movie advertisement for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970 Hammer Film Production). The next two pages are a centerspread pin-up of Victoria Vetri from the movie. The final page is of Victoria Vetri and two uncredited male actors.
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Printed in black ink on yellow paper in the center of the magazine.
The Mirror of Horror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
Na' Waga; Numa
Millonaire T. C. Fremont wants his personal...
Tara's father sends her to Africa to collect more specimens for the Dark Continent. While she is there Na' Waga the Witch Woman sets out to capture her. First she sends a leopard after Tara but Tara kills it. Then Na' Waga sends beast men that manage to capture Tara and take her to Na' Waga's cave. Na' Waga uses her mystic mirror to drain Tara's beauty and exchange it for Na' Waga's ugliness. While Na' Waga is showing off her beauty an old and feeble Tara manages to reach the mirror and destroy it. Her youth is immediately restored and the demon from within the mirror claims Na' Waga.
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Miscellaneous
10
Black and white.
The Space Hag

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
The Space Hag; Yik
Holy hotpants! Where am I??
Stormy Tempest tracks the Space Hag across the galaxy to stop her. When she catches up to her on the Space Hag's planet she is captured by Yik. The Space Hag commands Yik to throw her off the cliff but the Yik likes Stormy better so she throws the Space Hag off instead.
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2
Black and white.
Encounter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Roach; Sissy; Old Man Johnson (really an agent of Vortex) (death)
From out of the far depths of cosmic void...
Sissy and Roach see what they think are a shooting star but it changes directions and heads right toward them. Roach runs away but Sissy stays to see the object float to earth and become Astron. Astron immediately kills Old Man Johnson (the groundskeeper) because he can see that he is really an agent of Vortex.
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Black and white.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
Well, dear readers, here at long last is the...
Background and information on this issue's stories, including some credits information and a drawing of Tara.
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Miscellaneous
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Inside back cover, it is printed in black ink on blue paper.
Tara

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (logo)
Subject Matter
jungle, superhero
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Miscellaneous
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Cover is printed in black ink on blue paper. Back cover, includes price. Illustration is signed 1972.

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