TURRET
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-88469) human ghost
Occupation: Dinosaur hunter
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Samantha (last name unrevealed)
Enemies: Dinosaurs for Hire (Archie, Cyrano, Lorenzo, Reese), Professor Tyrell, unidentified female victim
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York, USA (Earth-88469);
formerly jungle (location unrevealed)
First Appearance: Dinosaurs for Hire II#7 (August, 1993)
Powers/Abilities: Armed with a bow-and-arrow,
tomahawk and machete, Turret was apparently proficient at hunting
dinosaurs, killing people who stood in his way. He usually lived in a jungle, and
was very fit and muscular. In his mortal form, he was very proficient
at archery, able to shoot multiple arrows at once. He appeared to be
Native American.
Height: 5'11"
(by approximation)
Weight: 160 lbs. (by
approximation)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
History:
(Dinosaurs for Hire II#7 (fb) - BTS) - Formerly based
in a jungle, Turret traveled to Manhattan armed only with basic
weaponry
to continue hunting dinosaurs (perceiving it his destiny, for
unrevealed reasons). His targets were the intelligent dinosaur-shaped
mercenaries Archie, Cyrano, Lorenzo and Reese (collectively Dinosaurs
for Hire).
(Dinosaurs for Hire II#7) - Stalking the Manhattan
rooftops, Turret watched a woman ably defend herself against three
muggers. Impressed, he introduced himself but, seeing himself a
villain,
he shot her with an arrow. Nearby, the gun-toting Dinosaurs for Hire
were hunting a ghost
named Samantha, who was harassing guests at a hotel while dressed in a
negligee. Turret first shot at the triceratops-featured Lorenzo and,
thinking him killed, then went after the stegosaurus-styled Reese, but
had to retreat due to gunfire. The two opponents smashed
through a wall and landed in the hotel pool; damage quickly drained the
pool. Samantha, keen to repay
Reese for injuring him earlier, distracted Turret, who was knocked out
by Reese. Archie, the tyrannosaur type, then squashed him, killing the
hunter. Turret soon appeared as a ghost and he embraced Samantha with
a passionate kiss, drifting away.
Comments: Created by Tom Mason, Leonard Kirk, and Ter Pallot.
Turret is a clear parody of Turok, Dinosaur Hunter (then
published by
Valiant). Shown below, the "parody enhanced" cover of this issue of D4H
directly
references the chromium-enhanced cover of Valiant's Turok #1 (itself a
revival of Dell's Turok, Son of Stone
(1956)).
Unfortunately, you might find Turok in the $1 bins now, a victim of the
early '90s collector craze, but it was one
of the nicest covers I'd seen back then - a real eye-popper. I think it's
fairly safely ASSumed that Turret, like Turok, was Native American.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Turret has no known connections to:
images:
(without ads)
Dinosaurs for Hire II#7, p15 (main image)
p8, pan2 (headshot)
Appearances:
Dinosaurs for Hire II#7 (August, 1993) - Tom Mason (writer), Leonard
Kirk (pencils), Ter Pallot (inks), Roland Mann (editor)
First posted:
10/12/2018
Last updated:02/18/2022
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