"Within You... Without You"

10 pgs. Appeared fist time in Eerie #77 (1976). Reprinted in Eerie #97 (1978), in Future World Comix #1(1978), in Heavy Metal Special: Richard Corben Special (1998) and in Heavy Metal Special: The Best of Richard Corben from Creepy & Eerie (1998).
Story: Bruce Jones. Art: Richard Corben (no signature). Lettered by hand (Warren).

BR BR: as "Tempo memória para sempre" in Kripta #21 (1978).
DK DK: as Den skrækkelige tidsrejse, Part 1(3): "Med sjæl og krop" in Gru Album #1 (1977).
FRA FRA: as Triologie temporelle, Part 1(3): "Si près... et pourtant" in Profondeurs (1978), and as "Si près... et pourtant" in Vampirella [FRA] #1 "Nouvelle série" (1978) and Vampirella [FRA] Album #4 "Nouvelle série" (1978), and Vampirella [FRA] Album #1 "Nouvelle série" [Issues #1-#4] (1978?).
GER GER: as "Within You... Without You [GER]" in Die Aussergewöhnliche Welt des Richard Corben, Vol. 2 (1980).
ITA ITA: as La trilogia del tempo, Part 1(3): "Dentro e fuori di te" in Collana Nera #8 (1983).
JAP JAP: as "Within You... Without You [JAP]" in Vampirella [JAP] #1 (1979).
NL NL: as In den beginne, Hoofdstuk 1(3): "De tand des tijds" in Richard Corben #2 [NL]: Diepten (1981).
SPA SPA: as "Dentro de tí, sin tí" in Delta #15, Dossier Negro #89, and as "Dentro y fuera de tí" in El extraordinario mundo de Richard Corben #2 (1981).
SWE SWE: as Tidsfällan, Part 1(3): "Långt nära och borta" in Pox Special #15 (7/86).
TUR TUR: as "Seninle ve sensiz..." in Vampirella [TUR] #24 (1977).

Style: Tonal. Genre: SF. Time Span: Future and prehistoric. Nudity: Full frontal nudity.
Keywords: Time travelling. Dinosaur.
Synopsis: Girl goes to prehistoric past by meditating, but earthshake in laboratory breaks the connection. For help they call girl's old high school lover. Girl wakes up as a naked 18 year-old girl (brain damage) and with helper she refuses to come back. Until dinosaur attacks on them.
Comment: Brilliant B&W artwork. Story by Bruce Jones is alive and interesting, and builds a base for future collaboration with Corben ("Rip in Time"). Coverstorys in Eerie #77, by Corben himself, and in Eerie #97, cover by Val Mayerik.
Extra: It appears that this story has got only one version. A girl has got blurred niples on several pages. Prob. also in the original version.

Copyright © 1997 Heart-Attack-Series, Ink!,
Created: Sept. 12, 1997. Modified: September 21, 2009.