History ComicBook / TraggAndTheSkyGods

* HeroesWantRedheads: Lorn, Tragg's mate and true love, is a redheaded NubileSavage. Tragg continually turns down advances from the sultry alien Keera so as to remain faithful to Lorn.

* VolcanoLair: The Yargonian invaders set up their base inside the volcano known as Fire Mountain

* {{Necromancer}}: In #9, the Dark Gods resurrect the dead sorcerer Ostellon and grant him the power to bestow life upon, and command, the bones of the dead.

* RaisingTheSteaks: In "The Cult of the Cave Bear" in ''Mystery Comics Digest'' #9, a {{Necromancer}} uses fumes from magic herbs and a drum beat to raise zombies to steal food from other tribes. After his zombies steal a cave bear Tragg is has just killed, he is HoistOnHisOwnPetard when Tragg uses the herbs and drum to resurrect the cave bear, which kills him.

* RaisingTheStakes: In "The Cult of the Cave Bear" in ''Mystery Comics Digest'' #9, a {{Necromancer}} uses fumes from magic herbs and a drum beat to raise zombies to steal food from other tribes. After his zombies steal a cave bear Tragg is has just killed, he is HoistOwnHisOwnPetard when Tragg uses the herbs and drum to resurrect the cave bear, which kills him.

The Yargonians who returned on schedule. However, in the interim, there had been a revolution, and these Yargonians represented an expansionist, exploitive regime that sought to conquer Earth and enslave the locals with their mesmegas, i.e. hand-held mind-control devices. Fortunately the now-grown children of their experimental subjects, Tragg (the hero) and Lorn (the love interest), the first modern humans, were there to oppose their evil plans.

* TheDiscoveryOfFire: In #5, Tragg and Lorn discover a tribe of man-apes. In saving one of the man-apes from a dinosaur, Tragg extinguishes a naturally occurring column of flame. Only after this act does he learn that the man-apes worship this flame as a god, as they lack the ability to make fire themselves. The man attempt to execute Tragg for his heresy. In escaping, Tragg reignites the lake of oil that was feeding the column of flame.

* GoodHairEvilHair: Zorek, the commander of the AlienInvasion, sport as green Fu Manchu moustache ([[PeopleOfHairColor all Yargonians have green hair]]). Not helped by the fact that Yargonians look vaguely Asiatic; having golden skin and slanted eyes.

* HollywoodPrehistory: The setting for the book, which features cavemen battling dinosaurs.

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Keera--the first officer of the [[AlienInvasion Yargonian invaders]]--seriously has the hots for HandsomeHeroicCaveman Targg. This drives to attempt to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Tragg's mate Lorn]], and eventually to become a DefectorFromDecadence.

* OneMillionBC: The setting for the book, which features cavemen battling dinosaurs.

* AlienInvasion: The Yargonians who return to Earth a generation after their first visit represent an expansionist, exploitive regime that seek to turn Earth into ''lebensraum'' and enslave the locals with their mesmegas, i.e., hand-held {{Mind Control Device}}s.

[[caption-width-right:350:Not pictured: The Sky Gods]]

* GoodHairEvilHair: Zorek, the commander of the AlienInvasion, sport as green Fu Manchu moustache (all Yargonians have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]]). Not helped by the fact that Yargonians look vaguely Asiatic; having golden skin and slanted eyes.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All of the [[RubberForeheadAliens Yargonians]] have green hair.

* LivingDinosaur: The presence of dinosaurs alongside cavemen is {{handwaved}} as being only an isolated pocket of ecology in the region where Tragg's tribe dwelt, and they were gone in most of the world.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: In #6, [[VillainessesWantHeroes Keera decides that Tragg will never love her]] while his mate Lorn is alive, so her best course of action is to kill Lorn. She reason that even if he does not nbecome hers after that, she will have the satisfaction of knowing that he is suffering as she is.

* TakeMyHand: In #6, Keera falls into a pit of spikes while trying to kill Lorn. She is left HangingByTheFingers from a narrow ledge. Tragg and Lorn offer mercy to her and reach in an pull out her out, which astounds Keera.

* AnimalStampede: In #2, Zerok, the leader of the Yargonians, attempts to wipe out Tragg's tribe by trapping them in a basin and then stampeding a herd of dinosaurs into the basin.

* BeastMan: In #4, the Yargonian commander Zorak merges Tragg's rival Gorth with a sabre-toothed tiger to create a creature that is half-man/half-sabre-tooth who he names Sabre-Fang. Zorak then sends Sabre-Fang out to hunt and destroy Tragg and Lorn.

* GoodHairEvilHair: Zorak, the commander of the AlienInvasion, sport as green Fu Manchu moustache (all Yargonians have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]]). Not helped by the fact that Yargonians look vaguely Asiatic; having golden skin and slanted eyes.

* RivalTurnedEvil: Gorth was a tribesman who always resented the handsome and talented Tragg. This simmering hatred allowed Zorak to transform into the BeastMan Sabre-Fang: half-man/half-sabretooth tiger. Sabre-Tooth was turned loose with one overwhelming compulsion: to hunt and kill Tragg and Lorn.

* RockeBeatsLaser: An ongoing theme of the series, as Tragg is consistently able to best aliens armed with {{Ray Guns}}s and other advanced technology with nothing more than stone age weaponry. A literal version happens in #6, when Keera draws her blaster during a DuelToTheDeath, only to have it knocked from her hand and smashed by a rock thrown by Lorn.

* DuelToTheDeath: In #6, Tragg and Lorn are captured by a tribe whose traditions dictate that any strangers entering the valley must be put to death. While the chief is debating whether to apply the tradition (Tragg had just saved his son), Keera arrives, [[GodGuise pretending to be a goddess]]. Following argument between Lorn and Keera, the chief offers them the opportunity to fight a duel, using traditional weapons, next to a pit filled with SpikesOfDoom. The winner must either force their opponent into the pit, or kill them and throw their body
into the pit.