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Beyond
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1947
June 25: Vernell Coriell produces the first Burroughs fan publication:
The
Burroughs Bulletin. (ERBzin-e
BB Checklist)
1948
January: Dell Comics begin a Tarzan comic series
1949
January: Movie: Tarzan's Magic Fountain, starring Lex
Barker
1950:
Associated Press chooses Johnny Weissmuller as the Greatest Swimmer of
the First Half-Century
1950
February 13: Nick Viscardy takes over the daily Tarzan strip
1950
May: Movie: Tarzan and the Slave Girl, starring Lex
Barker
1950
Burne Hogarth cofounded New York's prestigious School of Visual Arts
1950
First appearance of England's
Tarzan
Adventures Comic Book featuring reprints of American strips
1951
March: Movie: Tarzan's Peril, starring Lex Barker
1951
January 11: Premiere of the Commodore Productions radio series, Tarzan,
Lord of the Jungle, starring Lamont Johnson
1952 March 22: First CBS re-broadcast of
the 67 stand-alone, 1/2 hour episodes of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
1952
April: Movie: Tarzan's Savage Fury, starring Lex Barker
1953 May 9: Tarzan article appears in Collier's
Magazine
1953
June: Movie: Tarzan and the She-Devil, starring Lex
Barker
1953
June 27: Last CBS radio broadcast of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
1953
Sept 8: Lex Barker Weds Lana Turner. Barker was the
10th official ape man who inherited the role of Tarzan, ended up making
five Tarzan movies. He was Turner's fifth husband.
1954
Weissmuller refuses to coach the U.S.S.R. Swimming Team
1954
January 18: John Celardo signs his first Tarzan daily strip
1955 February 16: Release of Tarzan's
Hidden Jungle, starring Gordon Scott (his 1st Tarzan movie)
1956 Day's ERB: A Bibliography
is published
1956
April 3: The first issue of D. Peter Ogden's Erbania is published
in England
1957 Beyond Thirty and the Maneater
is published by Brad Day's SF&FP Publications with DJ and promo art
by Gil Kane ~ 229 pages ~ Word count estimate: 37,000.
1957
J. Allen St. John died - illustrator of 33 ERB first editions
1957
March: Movie: Tarzan and the Lost Safari, starring Gordon
Scott - the first full-colour, wide-screen Tarzan movie, filmed in East
Africa
1957
December 21: "The Tarzan Theme" by ERB is reprinted in the British
comic, Tarzan Adventures.
1958 February 23: New York Sunday News
article on the history of Tarzan films
1958
May 3: Disastrous fire at the ERB, Inc. warehouse
1958
July: Movie: Tarzan's Fight for Life, starring Gordon
Scott
1958
Tarzan
and the Trappers, starring Gordon Scott (unsold TV pilot)
1958
October 25: A John Carter strip starts in the British Sun Weekly.
1958
November 13: "Tarzans Creep, Climb, Bellow in Test for Film"
appears
as an AP story.
1959 July: Movie: Tarzan's
Greatest Adventure, starring Gordon Scott
1959
October: Movie: Tarzan, the Ape Man, starring Denny
Miller
1959
November 1: Spokesman Review points out that Tarzan is a worldwide business
institution.
1959
November 16: Joanna Barnes - "A Jane With a Brain for Tarzan" appears
in Life Magazine
1959
December: Vernell Coriell publishes the first Gridley Wave
1959
December 23: The last issue of the British comic, Tarzan Adventures
is printed.
1960
May 31: ERB-dom magazine begins publication, edited by Alfred
Guillory, Jr. and Camille "Caz" Cazedessus, Jr.
1960
July: Movie: Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon
Scott
1960
September 4: The Burroughs Bibliophiles are formed in Pittsburgh:
Bob Hyde Pres. - Stan Vinson, VP - Robert Horvath, Sec. - Charles Reinsel,
Treas. - Vern Coriell, Ed.
1960
November 10: The Mobile Press Register reports that Gordon Scott found
the Tarzan tour "rough."
1961 April 1: Me Tarzan article
appears in TV Guide
1961
June 24: Cincinatti Dum-Dum ~ No special guests
1961
December 27: A Downy, California school teacher says Tarzan and Jane never
married.
1961
December 28: "Tarzan Fans Say Ape Man IS Married" appears as an
AP story.
1961
December 29: Tarzan fans object to book suppression in Santa Ana.
1961
December 30: The Long Beach Ind. publishes the fact that Tarzan and Jane
were legally wed.
1962 March: Movie: Tarzan
Goes to India, starring Jock Mahoney
1962
May 12: Heins' original Golden Anniversary Bibliography appears
hole punched or spiral bound
1962
September 2: Chicago Dum-Dum - Mrs. J. Allen St. John
1962
The Ace ERB paperback series begins ushering in an ERB boom
1962
September 27: Skippy the chimpanzee star of Tarzan films dies
1962
November: Gold Key begins a Tarzan comic series
1962
November 28: Canaveral Press publishes Tarzan at the Earth's Core
1963 The Ballantine paperback
ERB series begins
1963
David Van Arnam, The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amtor (Lupoff)
1963
February: John Harwood's The Literature of Burroughsiana is
published by Camille Cazedessus, Jr.
1963
September 1: Washington, DC Dum-Dum ~ L. Sprague de Camp ~ Sam Moskowitz
1963
Movie: Tarzan's Three Challenges, starring Jock Mahoney
1963
October 21: Wall Street Journal publishes an article about the ERB revival:
Return
of Tarzan.
1963
November 14: Canaveral Press republishes The Mucker.
1963
November 25: Canaveral Press publishes Savage Pellucidar.
1963
November 26: New York Times reports of the finding of long-lost ERB manuscripts
in the ERB Inc. safe.
1963
November 29: Tarzan of the Paperbacks article by Paul Mandel
appears in LIFE Magazine
1963
November 30: Canaveral Press publishes Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins.
1963
December 16: Publisher's Weekly prints an article on the Tarzan revival.
1964 The biography, Water, World &
Weissmuller by Narda Onyx is published (Vion, LA)
1964
January: Gold Key begins a Korak comic series
1964
April 27: Tales of 3 Planets is published by Canaveral Press
NY: (with "Beyond the Farthest Star" and "The Wizard of Venus") 282pp
1964
May 2: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine reprints a Tarzan story
1964
September 5: Oakland Dum-Dum - Frank Merrill (could not attend due
to illness) ~ Hulbert Burroughs
1964
September 9: Henry H. Heins' monumental Golden Anniversary Bibliography
of ERB is published as a hardbound edition by Grant
1964
December 4: Canaveral Press publishes Tarzan and the Castaways.
1965 January: Mike Resnick's
The
Forgotten Sea of Mars sent with ERB-dom #12
1965
January 25: Filming of Tarzan and the Valley of Gold begins
1965
August: The Girl
from Farris's is published by The House of Greystoke
(read the eText)
~ First "authorized" edition ~ from the Burroughs Bibliophiles ~ 76 pages
~ Approximate word count: 40,000
1965
September 4-5: Chicago Dum-Dum - James H. and Joan Burroughs Pierce
1965
October 15: Master of Adventure by Richard Lupoff is published
1966 January 22: Ron Ely departs for Brazil
to make a Tarzan TV series
1966
May 6: First American edition of The
Efficiency Expert ~ (Read
the eText) House of Greystoke photographic reprint of the
All-Story version ~ 84 pages ~ Estimated word count 47,000.
1966
September 3: Cleveland Dum-Dum - Hulbert Burroughs
1966
September 3: Camille Cazedessus' fanzine ERB-dom wins a HUGO at
the Cleveland World SF Convention
1966
September 16: The Tarzan TV series with Ron Ely debuts (ran for
two seasons)
1966
Movie: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, starring Mike Henry
1967 January 14: Tarzan strip begins in
TV Tornado, a British comic
1967
ERB's son Hulbert and Robert M. Hodes jointly manage ERB, Inc.
1967
Treasure of the Black Falcon by John Coleman Burroughs is published by
Ballantine Books
1967
The House of Greystoke publishes the Illustrated Tarzan Book #1
(Apes)
1967
September 2: New York Dum-Dum - Harold Foster ~ Frank Frazetta
~ Bob Hodes
1967
September 1: I Am A Barbarian is published by ERB, Inc. with illustrations
by Jeffrey Jones.
1967
Movie: Tarzan and the Great River, starring Mike Henry
1967
September 24: Ron Ely is profiled by the New York Sunday News in the article
Tarzan
at Home.
1967
December 11: Russ Manning takes over the daily Tarzan strip.
1967
Robert W. Fenton's The Big Swingers was published by Prentice-Hall
1968 January 14: The first Russ Manning
Tarzan Sunday page appears
1968
August 31: Oakland Dum-Dum - Russ Manning and John Coleman Burroughs
(unable to attend)
1968
Gabe Essoe's Tarzan of the Movies was published by Citadel Press
1968
Movie: Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, starring Mike Henry
1969 August 30: St. Louis Dum-Dum - William
Juhre and Sam Moskowitz
1970
Movie: Tarzan's Deadly Silence, starring Ron Ely
1970
Movie: Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion, starring Ron Ely
1970
Doubleday SFBC begins printing a Mars Series
1970Pirate
Blood and Wizard of Venus are published in ACE ~
158 pages
1970
September 5: Detroit Dum-Dum - Philip Jose Farmer and Frank Schoonover
(unable to attend)
1970
Under
the Moons of Mars, A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance"
in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920, edited and with history by Sam
Moskowitz published by Holt Rinehart & Winston
1970
1971
R.D. Mullen publishes
SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green
University Popular Press) in which he criticizes ERB's Mars Series for
its astronomical errors
1971
April: National Lampoon publishes the satire Tarzan of the Cows
by M. O'Donoghue with cover by Frank Frazetta
1971
September 4: Boston Dum-Dum - Johnny Weissmuller
1971
October 20: Joseph C. (Gene) Pohler, the second man to portray Tarzan on
the screen (The Return/Revenge of Tarzan), dies at age 79 after
undergoing a toe operation
1972
Tarzan of the Apes ~ The New Color
Illustrated Tarzan Book by Burne Hogarth with text adapted by Robert
M. Hodes is published by Watson-Guptil
1972
McWhorter appointed Rare Book Curator at the U. of Louisville Ekstrom Library
1972
February: Robert M. Hodes, VP of ERB, Inc., announces that The Land
That Time Forgot is to be made as a feature movie in England
1972
March 29: Monster Times #5 features an interview with Tarzan Comics
artist and writer, Joe Kubert
1972
April: DC Comics begins the publication of a Tarzan comic series
1972
April: Esquire Magazine publishes Tarzan Lives by Philip Jose Farmer
1972
May: The 3-page article, Me Jane...You Tarzan by Arthur Prager,
appears in Cosmopolitan
1972
May 10: An ad for the feature film,
Tarzana ("She lived and loved
like an animal"), appears in
Variety
1972
Philip Jose Farmer's Tarzan Alive was published by Doubleday
1972
September 2: Los Angeles Dum-Dum - Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett)
and Burne Hogarth - John Flint Roy is the recipient of the
First Order of Edgar Award (A McClurg TA First Edition)
1972 December 31: Joan Burroughs Pierce dies of a heart attack
following a long battle with cancer.
1973
February: The article: Mariner 9 - Journey to Mars in National Geographic
mentions ERB as being accurate in his first descriptions of Mars.
1973
September 1: Toronto Dum-Dum - Buster Crabbe ~ Vern Coriell
1974 Philip Jose Farmer's Mother
Was A Lovely Beast &
Hadron of Opar published
1974
Adkins publishes an ERB Bibliography & Price Guide
1974
Movie: The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure
1974
August 31: Washington, DC Dum-Dum - Joe Kubert ~ Mrs. Rex Maxon (unable
to attend) ~ Neal Adams ~ Russ Cochran
1975 Porges' ERB: The Man
Who Created Tarzan is published by B.Y.U.
1975
February 15:
Me Tarzan, Me Rich, an article which takes a look at
the vast properties of the estate of ERB, appears in Forbes Magazine
1975
February 21: Governor George Wallace proclaims March 7-13, 1975 to be EDGAR
RICE BURROUGHS WEEK in Alabama in recognition of the 100th anniversary
of his birth
1975
Spring: ERB Inc. publishes Tarzan Drum Beat #1 - Recent Developments
from ERB, Inc., a 4-page newsletter with news and photos about the ERB
Centennial
1975
Summer: ERB Inc. publishes Tarzan Drum Beat #2 - Recent Developments
from ERB, Inc., a 4-page newsletter with news and photos about the ERB
Centennial
1975
September 1: Los Angeles Dum-Dum - Tarzan and Jane Reunion ~ 4 Tarzans
& 5 Janes
1975
September 8:
Time Magazine has a short article on the Tarzan Cult.
1976 Danton Burroughs, 32-year-old, second
son of John Coleman Burroughs, reveals that he would like to play Tarzan
in the upcoming Warners' treatment of his Grandfather's work
1976
McWhorter begins his ERB Memorial Collection.
1976
Richard A. Lupoff's Barsoom: ERB and the Martian Vision was
published by The Mirage Press
1976
John Flint Roy's A Guide of Barsoom is published by Ballantine
1976
Russ Cochran's ERB Library of Illustration V.1 is published
1976
The Fantastic Worlds of ERB begins publication in England, Paul
Norman, Editor
1976
Movie: At the Earth's Core, starring Doug McClure & Peter
Cushing
1976
September 4: Kansas City, MO Dum-Dum - Jock Mahoney ~ Philip
Jose Farmer
1977 June: Marvel Comics begins
the publication of a Tarzan comic series & a John Carter,
Warlord of Mars series
1977
Burne Hogarth's The Golden Age of Tarzan is published by Chelsea
House
1977
September 3: Miami Beach Dum-Dum - Hotel Fountain Bleu - Leigh Brackett
1978
David Day's The Burroughs Bestiary (London, New English Library)
1978
September 2: Phoenix, AZ Dum-Dum - James Pierce (not in attendance)
~ Buster Crabbe, Michael Pierce who is introduced as the new President
of ERB, Inc.
1979
February 22: John Coleman Burroughs, youngest of ERB's three children,
dies
1979
June 24: The last Russ Manning Tarzan Sunday page
1979
September 26: The first issue of the ERB News Dateline is
published by Michael Conran
1979
September 1: Louisville, KY Dum-Dum - Special guests James Pierce
& Lester Del Rey
1979
Demise of the Marvel Tarzan and John Carter of Mars comic books
1980
November 1: Hunt Valley, MD Dum-Dum - Honoree Boris Vallejo
1981 Harold Foster, Tarzan comic
illustrator, dies
1981
Russ Manning, Tarzan comic illustrator, dies
1981
Erling Holtsmark's Tarzan and Tradition is published by Greenwood
1981
August: Movie: Tarzan, the Ape Man, starring Miles O'Keeffe
& Bo Derek
1981
September 5: Denver, Colo. Dum-Dum - Honoree Michael Whelan
1981
November 11: Originator of the Jane movie role (Tarzan of the Apes and
Romance of Tarzan), Enid Markey, dies at 90
1982 April 6: Stan Vinson, ERB scholar
and collector, dies
1982
A theft at ERB Inc. at Tarzana - the only known perfect copy of
RT in dust jacket & 25 other rare books are stolen.
1982
September 5: Chicago, Ill. Dum-Dum - Don Wollheim and Denny
Miller (Denny not present)
1982
ERB receives the SF Gernsback Award at the 40th World Science
Fiction Convention
in Chicago
1983 February 24: Roy G. Krenkel, ERB artist,
dies
1983
February 27: Last Tarzan Sunday page by Mike Grell
1983
April 23: Buster Crabbe - Tarzan the Fearless - dies at age 75
1983
Frank H. Westwood becomes the editor of The Fantastic Worlds of ERBin
England
1983
September 2: ERB Birthday Party ~ Forerunner of the ECOF gathering
1983
September 3: Baltimore, MD Dum-Dum - Jack Williamson & Forrest
J. Ackerman - special guest Mrs. Rex Maxon - Last Dum-Dum organized
by Vern Coriell (Achievement Award)
1983
November 12: James H. Pierce, ERB's son-in-law and Tarzan of the
silents and radio, dies at age 83
1984 January 20: Johnny Weissmuller (born
June 2, 1904) dies in Acapulco.
1984
March: Movie: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,
starring Christopher Lambert
1984
March 31: The first issue of ERB-APA was published, John Guidry,
Official Editor
1984
August 10-12: ECOF holds its first annual gathering in Toronto ~
Honoree Frank Shonfeld, B.E.M.
1985
June 28-30: ECOF is held at the University of Louisville, hosted by George
McWhorter ~ Burne Hogarth and Danton Burroughs
1986
Erling
Holtsmark's Edgar Rice Burroughs is published by Twayne
1986
Mike Conran discovers ERB's Tarzan Jr. story in Chicago's Museum
of Science & Industry
1986
A
Princess of Mars (with AEC) is published in a leather-bound
edition by Easton Press
1986
July 25-27: ECOF in Jenison, Michigan ~ Honoree John Flint Roy
1986
August 31: Atlanta Dum-Dum (Special fund-raising event for Vern Coriell
organized by Forry Ackerman and 4E)
1987 January 15: Vern Coriell
dies, a large portion of his ERB library is added to the ERB Memorial
Collection at Louisville
1987
July 30-August 2: ECOF in Arnold, Maryland ~ Darrell C. Richardson
(absent) ~ son Coleman Richardson accepted the award
1987
September 1: McWhorter's Burroughs Dictionary is published by the
University Press of America
1987
James A. Bergen, Jr's first Price and Reference Guide to Books Written
by ERB is published
1987
December 8: John Flint Roy, famous ERB scholar, dies
1988 A single edition of Tarzan
of the Apes with Son,
TEC, & TT is published
by Avenel
1988
July 6-10: ECOF at London and Greystoke, England ~ Pete Ogden ~
Mr & Mrs. Stafford Howard and Mr. & Mrs. Neville Howard
1989 The documentary, The Many Faces
of Tarzan, is released on video by Amvest
1989
January 8: Asbury Park Press, the only paper to feature the Tarzan Sunday
comic in half-page format, changes to 1/3 page format
1989
June 22-26: ECOF in Tarzana, CA ~ hosted by Mike Shaw and Ralph Brown
~ Irwin Porges ~ Guests: Eve Brent ~ Danton Burroughs ~ Gordon Scott
~ Denny Miller ~ Gabe Essoe ~ Burne Hogarth ~ Jack Iverson ~ Forrest J.
Ackerman
1989
Movie: Tarzan in Manhattan, starring Joe Lara with Tony Curtis
as Archimedes Porter
1989
Aug. 31 - Sept. 1: Chicago ~ 75th Anniversary Diinner (since TA book publication)
~ Hosted by the Normal Beans of Chicago ~ Honorees: Bob Hyde,
George
McWhorter,
Bill Ross ~ Guest: Philip Jose Farmer
1989
September 30: Bill Ross begins publication of his
ERB Collector
1989
December 15: Movie Tarzan Jock Mahoney [Tarzan Goes to India, Tarzan's
Three Challenges and Tarzan the Magnificent (villain)] dies of a stroke
following a car accident
1990
January: Publication of the first issue of The Burroughs Bulletin
(New Series)
1990
Alan Hanson's A Chrono-log of ERB's Tarzan is published by Waziri
Press
1990
April: Jungle of Dreams: The Tarzan Mythos of ERB published,
William P. Waters, Editor
1990
June 29 - July 1: ECOF at Binghamton, NY ~ Henry H. Heins (absent)
and Bill Ross
1990
July 31: Frank Shonfeld died (founder of ECOF, awarded the BEM)
1990
Dum-Dum
is reinstated by George McWhorter
1990
Aug. 30-Sept. 2: Louisville, KY - Dum-Dum - The Galt House - Burne
Hogarth, Danton Burroughs, Denny Miller, Russ Cochran, Sammy
the baby Gorilla
1990
October 19-21: Chicago, IL ~ Second Annual Dinner ~ Hosted by the Normal
Beans of Chicago ~ Honorees: Tim Conrad and Mike Conran
1990
November 2: Donald A. Wollheim dies of a heart attack at age 76. He started
the '60s ERB boom by publishing PD titles in ACE paperbacks and hiring
Krenkel and Frazetta to illustrate them
1991
McWhorter's ERB Collection:
A Catalog is published by the
House of Greystoke
1991
June 28-30: ECOF at Williamston, Michigan ~ Mike Conran
1991
Aug. 31 - Sept. 1: Chicago, IL Dum-Dum - Omni Hotel - Erling B.
Holtsmark ~ Guests: Sam Moskowitz ~ Richard Powers ~ Mike Chapman ~
Forrest J. Ackerman
1991
August 8: Hulbert "Hully" Burroughs, eldest son of ERB, dies at age 81
of a heart attack
1991
September: Debut of the Tarzan Television Series, starring Wolf
Larson and Lydie Denier. This two-season series is shot in Mexico
1991
November 13: Darrell C. Richardson's J. Allen St. John:
An Illustrated Bibliography is published by Mid-America Publishers
1992 March: Malibu Comics publish
a Tarzan comic series for two years
1992
NBM begins a series of reprints of the Tarzan Sunday comic strips
1992
Allan Gross' Farewell Pellucidar is printed
1992
June 26-28: ECOF at Denver, CO ~ Life Achievement Award Bob Hyde
~ Guest: Danton Burroughs,
1992
August 27-30: Louisville, Kentucky Dum-Dum - Gault House - Mitchell
Harrison ~ Frank Westwood ~ Bob Zeuschner ~ Rita Coriell
~ Denny Miller ~ Guests: Burne Hogarth, Don Kraar, Sam Moskowitz,
Dick Lupoff, Henning Kure
1993 June 18-20: ECOF at Willows,
CA ~ Tom Yeates and John Eric Holmes
1993
September 16-19: Pittsburgh, PA Dum-Dum - Don Kraar ~ Guests:
Tom Yeates, Denny Miller, George Evans (absent), Gray Morrow and Dave Fury
1994 January 17: Frances Gifford - Jungle
Girl (Nyoka) and Tarzan Triumphs (Jane) - dies
1994
McWhorter shepherds David Adams into the fold
1994
David Fury's Kings of the Jungle is published by McFarland
1994
Joe Jusko's ERB collector cards
1994
A large print edition of Tarzan of the Apes is published by G.K.
Hall
1994
June 23-25: ECOF at Baltimore, Maryland ~ Mark Wheatley, Marc Hemple and
Damon Willis
1994
September 1-4: Atlanta, GA Dum-Dum - Perimeter Center - Dave Fury
(in absentia) & Tracy Griffin ~ Guest: Sam Moskowitz
1995
The Porges archives are added to the ERB Memorial Collection at
Louisville
1995
Spring: Tarzan the Lost Adventure is finished by Joe Lansdale and
published by Dark Horse & they begin a series of Tarzan comics with
A
Tale of Mugambi
1995
Huckenpohler publishes his first ERB Collector's Pocket Checklist
1995
An edition of Tarzan of the Apes with The Return of Tarzan
is published by the BOMC
1995
Richard J. Utz's Investigating the Unliterary: Six Essays on Burroughs'
Tarzan of the Apes is published
1995
June 30 - July 2: ECOF at Portland, Oregon ~ Thomas Yeates ~ Peet Janes
~ John Eric Holmes
1995
Aug. 31- Sept. 6: Rutland, VT Dum-Dum - Joe Jusko, Surprise
guest Maureen O'Sullivan
1995
Rob Greer's 1994 thesis (From Africa to Mars: The Political, Moral, and
Social Commentaries of ERB) appears in a website shortly after the launch
of Tarzan.org
1996 January 28: Burne Hogarth,
Tarzan comic illustrator, died (Born December 25, 1911)
1996
Robert B. Zeuschner's ERB Bibliography is published by McFarland
1996
Clark A. Brady's Burroughs Cyclopedia is published by McFarland
1996
Van Hise's ERB's Fantastic Worlds is published
1996
The
Barsoomian Blade - an ERB website by Jeff Long begins operation
1996
June: Tangor's ERBList debuts
1996
June 20-23: ECOF at Chicago, IL ~ Denny Miller
1996
July: ERBCOF-L an internet ERB fan discussions list begins
operation
1996
August 22-25: Woodland Hills/Tarzana, CA Dum-Dum - Harlan Ellison
- Guests: Danton Burroughs, Tom Yeates, Chuck Porge, Janes & Tarzans:
Joanna Barnes, Eve Brent, Vanessa Brown, Gordon Scott, Denny Miller
1996
ERB-List
an internet ERB fan discussions list begins operation
1996
September: National Capital Panthans organize & begin publishing
their Journal
1996
Trendmaster produces ERB action figure toys
1996
December: A Barsoom Glossary finds a home on the Internet
1996
Bill Hillman's ERB Web sites start to unfold
1997 Tangor's Beyond and Whizzle's SF debut
on the Net
1997
April 25 - May 4: Palmdale Playhouse production of You
Lucky Girl!
1997
June 21-22: ECOF at Holt, Michigan ~ Allan Gross
1997
June 27-29: The British ERB Society host a London Greystoke ERB convention
~ Marcia Lincoln and Burne Hogarth (In Memorium)
1997
Tarzan: The Legacy of ERB, television biography produced by the A&E
network, hosted by Peter Graves
1997
In
Search of Tarzan, an AMC documentary televised during AMC's film festival
of 32 vintage Tarzan movies.
1997
Moi, Tarzan, French television documentary
1997
August 22-24: Newton, IA Dum-Dum - Gordon Scott ~ Jim Thompson
~ George McWhorter ~ Guests: Earling B. Holtsmark ~ Bob Zeuschner
and Dave Fury
1997
The Palmdale Playhouse in California staged the premiere of You Lucky
Girl!
1997
Sarkis Atamian's The Origin of Tarzan is published by Publication
Consultants
1998 February: ERB4Sale is created
on the Net as a service to ERB buyers and sellers
1998
March: Tangor launches the ERBmania! website
1998
History
of the Burroughs Bibliophiles and Bulletin by George McWhorter
appears in the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook
1998
Minidoka
is published by Dark Horse Comics
1998
Tarzan
of the Apes is published with Son & TEC by Gramercy
1998
Movie: Tarzan and the Lost City, starring Casper Van
Dien
1998
Icon:
A Retrospective by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art Frank Frazetta
published by Underwood Books
1998
June 19-21: ECOF at Pittsburgh, PA ~ Michael Friedlander ~ Guests:
Joe Jusko and Allan Gross
1998
August 3-6: Baltimore, MD Dum-Dum - Gabe Essoe ~ J.G. Huckenpöhler
~ George McWhorter ~ Guests: Al Williamson and Mark Schultz
1998
December 25: Von Horst's ever-expanding Pellucidar
website debuts
1999 Legacy: Selected Paintings
& Drawings by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art Frank Frazetta published
by Underwood
1999
Nkima (David Adams) begins his analysis of ERB's novels via Vladimir Propp
1999
March 19-21: Bellaire, TX ~ Bruce Bozarth's Texas ERB Wake
and CD-ROM
1999
John Taliaferro's Tarzan Forever: The Life of ERB Creator of Tarzan
is published by Scribner
1999
Heritage
of the Flaming God by Frank J. Brueckel & John Harwood is published
by Waziri Publications
1999
Philip Jose Farmer's Dark Heart of Time published by Ballantine
1999
June 10-13: Woodland Hills/Tarzana,
CA Dum-Dum - Eddie Gilbert, Stu Byrne, 4E
1999
June 11: Special showing of Tarzan for ERB fans on the Disney lot
1999
June 12: Hollywood premiere of the new Walt Disney Tarzan animated
feature movie
1999
July 9: The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest officially
open their Edgar Rice Burroughs Museum
1999
August 5-8: ECOF at Gaithersburg, Maryland
1999
Marcia
of the Doorstep and You Lucky Girl are first published by Donald
M. Grant
2000 January 30: Phil Collins and
Tarzan appear on the Super Bowl half time show
2000
February: Second series of Disney Tarzan premium toys from McDonalds with
the release of the videotape & DVD of the movie.
2000
February 1: Release of Disney Tarzan on VHS and DVD
2000
March 17-19: ERB Wake at Bellaire, TX ~ Hosted by ERBlist Moderator Bruce
Bozarth
2000
April: David Fury: Johnny Weissmuller: Twice the Hero published
2000
April: Glen Erardi: Collecting Edgar Rice Burroughs published
2000
May: Marci’a Lincoln Rudolph: My Father, Elmo Lincoln published
2000 May 18 - 21 ECOF
- Clarksville, Tennesse - Host Jim Thompson ~ GoH Mary Burroughs &
Barry Stubbersfield
2000
June 27: Eddie Gilbert, ERB’s brother-in-law died at 83 - ERB Collection
auctioned at PBA Galleries on November 15, 2001
2000 July 13-16: Dum-Dum
Grandville Michigan - GoH Johnny Sheffield
2000
August: Oak Park Historical Society celebrated ERB’s 125th birthday
2000
November: William J. Boerst: ERB Creator of Tarzan, biography published
2000
December: Roy & Dela White donate 1344 unique ERB items to the Ekstrom
Library
2001 April: Beyond Thirty published by
University of Nebraska Press
2001
April: David Ullery: The Tarzan Novels of ERB published
2001
April: Frank Cho Illustrator published
2001
April: Caprona (The Land That Time Forgot trilogy) German edition: Blitz
Verlag
2001 June 21-24, Dum-Dum
2001: Tampa, Florida ~ Pete Ogden ~ GoH Steve Hawkes, Lydie Denier (Golden
Lion Awards)
2001
June: Collins, Max Allan: The Pearl Harbor Murders
2001
July: Chapman, Mike: Please Don’t Call Me Tarzan: The Life & Career
of Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett
2001
August: "Them Was the Days!" Michigan Military Academy Symposium
2001 Aug. 17-19: Binghamton,
NY ~ Elaine Casella, Hostess ~ Michael Kaluta
2001
September: Henry Heins: famous ERB Golden Anniversary Bibliography republished
2001
September: Kasson, John F.: Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man
2001
September: Tantor Media: ERB audiobooks
2001
September: Pirates of Venus published by Bison Books, University of Nebraska
Press
2001
October: Quiet Vision Publishing issues over 30 ERB titles/introductions
by George T. McWhorter
2001
October: Kane, Brian M.: Hal Foster, Prince of Illustrators
2001
October: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Forgotten Tales!
2002 April: The Moon Maid published by
Bison Books
2002
May: Whitezel, Karl: Buster Crabbe: A Self Portrait
2002
May: Bohnett, Brian J.: "Them Was the Days!" ERB & the History of the
Michigan Military Academy
2002 May 23 - 26: Dum-Dum,
College Station, Texas ~ Brad Vinson host ~ Joe Lansdale (Golden Lion Award)
~ ERB Achievement Award: Brad Vinson
2002
June: Schneider, Jerry L.: ERB and the Silver Screen, Volume 1 - The Silent
Years Expanded second edition)
2002
July: Fenton, Robert W.: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan (republication
of 1967 biography)
2002
August: Wildside Press ERB Editions: The Lost Continent, Tarzan the Untamed,
Tarzan the Terrible, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, & Jungle Tales
of Tarzan
2002 August 30 - September
1: ECOF - Tarzana, CA
~ Danton Burroughs ~ Bruce Boxleitner ~ Lydie Denier
2002
September: Normand Design offers Thuvia in dust jacket reconstructions
2002
October: The Land That Time Forgot in Modern Library edition by Random
House
2002
October: Weissmuller, Johnny Jr.: Tarzan, My Father
2002
November: Pellucidar published by Bison Books
2002
November: Disney’s direct-to-video Tarzan sequel, Tarzan and Jane, on VHS
or DVD
2002
November: Tarzan of the Funnies published by the House of Greystoke &
Mad Kings
2002
December: The Girl From Farris’s (Limited hardcover edition by Jerry L.
Schneider)
2003 Year: A flurry of publishing
activity: Hanson's Chrono-Log reprint, McWhorter edition of Fenton's ERB
& Tarzan, Barrett's Tarzan of the Funnies, Bohnett's Tarzan Big Little
Books, Schneider's ERBville Press editions of ERB pulp versions matched
hardcover, ongoing ERB reprint editions by Bison Books, reprint of the
Heins Bibliography, update of Huck's Pocket Checklist, many new Websites
and ongoing expansion of the Bozarth and Hillman Web Empires. Danton
Burroughs launched a personal Website and collaborated with regular
Burroughs Family Archive features in ERBzine. Fanzine editors are
still active with new editions: McWhorter's Burroughs Bulletin (with updates
to his BB Online
Index), Ogden's ERBANIA, Ross' ERB Collector, Conran's ERB News Dateline,
Westwood's Fantastic Worlds of ERB, Van Hise's zine, National Capital Panthan's
Newsletter. . . and Hillman's Online weekly ERBzine
now has thousands of issues in archive.
2003
January: The Land That Time Forgot (Amazing Stories version by Jerry L.
Schneider)
2003
January: History Channel Fantastic Voyage: The Evolution of Science Fiction
2003
February: Tarzan of the Apes in Modern Library edition by Random House
2003
February: The Land That Time Forgot & Out of Time’s Abyss (Wildside
Press)
2003
March: The Moon Maid published as Conquest of the Moon by Jerry L. Schneider
2003
March: ERB and the Silver Screen, Volume 4 - The Locations by Jerry L.
Schneider
2003
April: Chapman, Mike: The Gold and The Glory: Glenn Morris biography
2003
April: Taliaferro donates Tarzan Forever papers of U of L Burroughs Collection
2003
May: Under the Moons of Mars (first three Barsoom books in one volume)
Bison Books
2003
June: A Princess of Mars by Modern Library
2003
June: ECOF 2003 - National Capital Panthans
2003 June 27-29 : ECOF hosted
by National Capital Panthans in Hanover, MD
2003
August: Quiet Vision ERB publications: The Chessmen of Mars, Tarzan and
the Jewels 0f Opar, Pellucidar, & The Mucker
2003 August 28-31: Dum-Dum
Louisville ~Host: George T. McWhorter U. of L. ~ GoH Danton Burroughs,
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, Denny Miller, Bob Zeuschner, Huck Huckenpohler
~ Lifetime Achievement Awards: Bill Hillman & Brian Bohnett
2003
October: Travis Fimmel plays Tarzan in new television series Tarzan
2003 October 3: TARZAN:
The Warner Brothers TV Series debuts
2004
January: ERBzine: Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine
moves from a multitude of linked "free servers" to a 1500 megabyte server
with the domain: www.ERBzine.com
2004
May: Danton Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. launch www.JohnColemanBurroughs.com
tribute site.
2004
June 25-26: Dum-Dum 2004 in Fort Collins, Colorado is hosted by Mike Chapman.
It has a Glenn Morris and Olympics theme
2004
August 12-14: ECOF 2004 is held in Sacramento, Califoria with guests Dan
Parsons - Artist, Tom Yeates - ERB Artist, Lydie Denier ~ "Jane" actress,
Richard Lupoff.
2005
January 11: Danton Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. of Tarzana,
California announce the launch of the Web's largest Armada. A giant fleet
of ERB, Inc. Web ships commanded by the all-new flagship www.tarzan.com
The Command Vessel with a multitude of decks packed with new features and
hundreds of Webpages.
www.tarzan.com/tarzine/
TARzine: The Fleet's Official Monthly Bulletin sent out by Command Centre:
ERB, Inc. in Tarzana featuring an archive of back issues back to July 2004
www.tarzan.org
The refurbished Webship that has patrolled ERB Webspace since the completion
of the Disney contract for their use of Tarzan.com
www.JohnColemanBurroughs.com
The
John Coleman Burroughs Tribute Site with its vast stores of weekly features
from Danton Burroughs Family Archives and Tarzana Treasure Vaults
www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag
www.ERBzine.com
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute Site with its Weekly Webzine and Archive
of over 10,000 ERB Web features:and regular News features:
2026
January 6: The Barsoom is sabotaged by Orthis while drunk
2026
January 8 - 11 AM: The Barsoom enters the interior of the Moon
...MORE
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