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Volume 1138

THREE PUZZLES FOR ERB FANS

1. ERB CROSSWORD PUZZLE
2. ERB WORD PUZZLE
3. ERB WORD SEARCH

ERB CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Adapted, Revised & Expanded by Bill Hillman from a DC Comics puzzle by Bob Rozakis ~ Copyright 1973 ERB, Inc.

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ACROSS
1. Tarzan's real name (2 words)
8. Title inherited by Tarzan from his father (2 words)
17. Heins abbreviation for Tarzan and the Ant Men
18. Tarzan's mother, Lady _ _ _ _ _
19. Colour of the scar on Tarzan's forehead when he is angry
20. Video tape system Laurence Dunn views old Tarzan movies on in England
21. Ape language for "lion"
22. English abbreviation for histah et al
23. What fans do at Dum-Dums and ECOFs
25. What every exhibitor hopes to make in the Huckster Rooms
26. Great Ape son of Tublat
28. Halo
30. Method used by Tarzan to capture animals
31. Roman Numeral of the ERBzine feature on "OB: The Other Burroughs Bio"
33. Path in the jungle
35. Nationality of John Clayton and BBH
39. African Native (abbreviation)
40. North African River
42. What ERB and Tarzan fed their mounts
43. Ape language for "black"
44. The "three little bugs" that young Tarzan found under a picture that looked like himself.
46. Ape language for "strange" (in the plural)
47. When Ed comes to this part of a chapter he uses a "cliffhanger"
50. Heins abbreviation for The Return of Tarzan
51. International Telephone and Telegraph (abbreviation)
54. Argosy and Blue Book changes in Ed's manuscripts
56. D'Arnot's home that Tarzan visited in the second Tarzan novel
57. Native who killed Kala
59. Tarzan, Ara, Bara, and Sheeta all have it
63. Ape language for "light" or "bright"
64. The Tarzana state (abbrev.)
65. The time in Pellucidar at this moment.
66. A two-letter word most non-ERB fans associate with the name Dejah
67. "Horta"
69. There was only one in the little cabin
71. The creator of Tarzan, Barsoom, Pellucidar and Amtor
76. What Tarzan felt for the Hun
78. The first two letters of OB's middle name
79. One of the publishers of Tarzan and Korak comics
80. Distress signal prompted by mutineers
81. Animals with teeth all do this in battle or hunger
82. Young she-ape Tarzan fell in love with
83. Miss Strong's initials
84. Jane Porter's hometown
85. Korak's girlfriend


DOWN
1. Tarzan's habitat
2. Ttidy
3. Priestess of Opar
4. Berserk, as Kerchak sometimes became
5. The third book written by ERB. Tarzan's first appearance.
6. What Mike Henry hears in the bull-ring
7. Tarzan's enemy in Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion" (colloquial)
8. "Zee" in ape language
9. The sailors on the Fuwalda drank this
10. What young Tarzan though he was (two words):
11. Second word in the title of the second Tarzan book.
12. Name prefered by Edgar
13. Direction of Tarzan's plantation from Lake Victoria
14. Lost Atlantas-related city discovered by Tarzan in the jungle
15. Tarzan's ape mother
16. "Tantor" herd
24. "Meeta" ~ causes the jungle animals to seek shelter
25. Heins abbreviation for the fourth Tarzan book
27. _ _ _ _ Manning: Tarzan newspaper strip artist
29. Sun God
32. Two letters common to the titles: Minidoka ~ Princess of Mars ~ A Fighting Man of Mars ~ The Mad King
34. "Sabor"
36 "Bolgani"
37. Distinction shared by: "Foreign Legion," "Llana of Gathol," "Escape On Venus,"
38. Two letters common to the titles: Bandit of Hell's Bend ~ Skeleton Men of Jupiter ~ City of Gold ~ Forbidden City
41. Abbreviation of Mrs. Burroughs first name
45. What St. John, Foster, JCB, Yeates, Stout, Hoover, et al do
46. Editor and artist of the DC Tarzan comics series
48. Frenchman who befriends the ape-man
49. Abbreviation of the publishers of the Burroughs reprints after McClurg
52. Ape language for "elephant"
53. Ape language for "lightning"
55. Jimber Jaw's cover and resting place
56. "Sheeta"
58. "_ _ _ _ _ of the Jungle" in Blue Book pulp, later became Tarzan the Invincible
60. Name common to Professor A.Q. and Jane
61. Tarzan's victory cry
62. Tribal ritual of the apes. . .  and BBs
67. Part of the tree over which Disney's Tarzan "surf"
68. One of the nicknames of ERB biographer, Lupoff
70. Either
72. March 19, 1950
73. Hyde, Zeuschner, Barrett, Woodley, Cook, Hibbard, et al
74. Country Jane came from
75. A 3-letter abbreviation for the second Tarzan novel.
76." _ _ _, Tarzan... Her, Jane"
77." _ _ _ Core" (first Pellucidar Book abbreviation)

ERB WORD PUZZLE
by Bob Rozakis ~ Copyright ERB, Inc. 1973

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DIRECTIONS: Figure out the clues below and fill the correct words into the spaces provided.
Then put each letter into the appropriately numbered space in the grid above.
The result will be a quote from the original novel, The Return of Tarzan.
(Note: The small letters in the squares above correspond to the clues below.)
Clue A is done as an example
 
A. Lacking W I T H O U T
. 99 30 94 83 101 41 37
B. Creator of Tarzan . . . . .
     _ _ _ _ _ Rice Burroughs 126 104 32 75 66
C. Evening _ _ _ light . . .
. 19 64 91
D. Before he foiund a knife, Tarzan . . . . .
     used these on his enemies 12 113 51 72 199
E. To ask one to join in . . . . . .
. 77 79 127 23 10 67
F. Paulvitch's partner in revenge  . . . . . . .
     (2 words) 70 1 18 35 103 108 54
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. . 129 4 29 13 46 123
G. Ape word for boar . . . . .
. 8 90 48 82 21
H. Kota . . . . . .
. 69 122 63 14 26 98
I. The sound you might hear when . . . .
    Tantor blows his snout 22 105 80 85
J. John Clayton, Tarzan . . . . . . . . .
     Lord _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 93 102 11 120 114 56 96 78 39
K. To the apes it's "tho" . . . . .
. 88 27 33 118 50
L. Ape word for fish . . . . .
. 110 86 2 84 20
M. Miss Porter . . . .
. 40 9 97 59
N. "Much for an ape . . .
. 61 38 28
O. Tantor . . . . . . . .
. 128 52 65 109 3 24 36 73
P. What "tar" in Tarzan and Tarmangani means  . . . . .
. 116 107 16 49 45
Q. How the apes refer to the black tribesmen . . . . . . . . .
. 89 124 25 96 17 43 87 31 111
R. In the moives, you might see a Tarzan . . . .
. 106 117 44 58
S. Tarzan's French Friend . . . . . .
. 7 53 125 92 47 76
T. British unit of currency . . . . .
. 34 71 5 112 60
U. Numa . . . .
. 6 57 121 42
V. A snake, to the apes . . . . . .
. 15 68 115 55 62 74
W. Tarzan fought the Germans in _ _ I: . .
. 100 81


 
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AFRICA ESMERALDA JUNGLE M'BONGA SABOR
APE MAN FUWALDA KALA MERIEM SHEETA
ARA GIMLA KERCHAK MUNANGO KEEWATI SNAKE
BOAR GOMANGANI KORAK NIKOLAS ROKOFF TANTOR
BOLGANI GORILLA KULONGA NUMA TARZAN
BULL APE HAZEL STRONG LADY ALICE OPAR TEEKA
CABIN HISTAH LION PANTHER TERKOZ
D'ARNOT HORTA LIONESS PAULVITCH TRIBE
DUMDUM JANE LORD GREYSTOKE PORTER TUBLAT
ELEPHANTS JOHN CLAYTON MANU RAIN VINES
WILLIAM EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS JOE KUBERT RUSS MANNING .

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