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Rick Griffin discussing adventures of Murphy...

GRIFFIN: Right. I always did that. He always got caught in a time warp of some kind. That was the second adventure, back to the time of the cavemen. What happened was he fell asleep on the beach, and when he woke up he was on the edge of a primordial forest. So his friends are gone, and there's all these strange tropical plants, so he starts off in the general direction of home, and he gets chased by a dinosaur, and he goes in this cave and these two cavemen sneak up behind him, about ready to do him in, and he goes to shield himself with his surfboard, and they see this thing, and they're amazed by it, by its technical aspects -- smooth, shiny, they are not at all familiar with the materials. It's strange to them. At that point, they're more interested in that than they are in killing him. And he realizes this, so he shows them what it is, he goes out and surfs. They really dig it. They go off into the forest and there are all these noises of cutting down, and they come down and they've cut down these logs, pointed them at the end. They're real crude surfboards. So they go out and they're all surfing and having a good time when this volcano erupts. The two cavemen head for the beach and disappear into the forest. Murphy heads out. And there's a tidal wave, the volcano creates a big tidal wave. Murphy takes off on that, and he's in the tube, so anyway he wakes up, and he's running up the beach yelling, "Help! Giant tidal wave!" and a little shore break breaks behind him. His friends are all laughing at him, saying, "Hey, Murphy, you've been dreaming, having another nightmare." And he says, "Hey, no, listen. I was back in time. There were all these dinosaurs, and cave people, and I was teaching them how to surf," and they're all laughing at him, "Oh, sure." So after a while they kind of run him off, and he's still saying, "Man, I know it, I know it was real." And at a different part of the beach, it shows these archaeologists, digging in this cave, and they break into this inner part of the cave, and they shine their light on the wall, and they're going, "What do you make of it?" And there, up on the wall are these crude cave paintings, of these people surfing, and one of them is a crude characterization of Murphy. It's obviously these two cavemen and Murphy. Most of them had an ending like that.