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Tarzan's Tree House At Disneyland
 Tour Tarzan's jungle home—built aloft in an 80-foot-tall tree—and see what it's like to live on the wild side!

Tarzan's Treehouse and rope bridge at Disneyland Park Tarzan’s Story Comes Alive
Two boys play and pull a rope at Tarzan's Treehouse
Climb high into the sky, see Tarzan’s improvised living conditions and learn the story of his wild jungle upbringing. The adventure begins as you climb a tree stump and walk across a rope bridge to the tree house.

Overgrown with vines and constructed with salvaged parts from Tarzan's parents' shipwreck, the tree house features vignettes from Tarzan's life story. As you tour the ingeniously designed room built into the huge tree, look for illustrations from Jane's sketchbook that provide the details of how Tarzan was saved from the savage Sabor, raised by a kindly gorilla Kala and fell in love with Jane Porter.

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A Tree with a View
Figure of Jane taking notes and sketches of the wild Tarzan
Explore the 150-ton mammoth tree with 450 branches containing over 6,000 leaves.

The tree’s scientific name is Disneydendron semperflorens grandis or "large ever-blooming Disney tree."

As you near the top, you're treated to astonishingly beautiful views of Adventureland far below you.

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Make Some Noise at the Base Camp
A boy plays with musical cooking pots at Tarzan's Treehouse
Once you've experienced the tree house, the fun continues on the ground at the base of the tree.

You're invited to investigate Jane's collection of scientific equipment and improvised cooking gear.

Inspect a magic lantern, play with musical pots and pull vines for a delightful assortment of fun surprises.

Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs Edited by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia Original theme anthology.  Eleven new tales set in the legendary worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Contains stories by top writers such as Mercedes Lackey, Sarah Hoyt, and Mike Resnick. 368 pages Publisher: Baen; Original edition ISBN-10: 145163935X ~ ISBN-13: 978-1451639353 Available October 1, 2013 at bookstores and Amazon.com

"Just As I Am, The Autobiography of Billy Graham."
  "At home, from my earliest years, Mother encouraged me in the habit of reading. The exploits of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest entranced me. I read the whole Tom Swift series, and the Rover Boys. Among my favorite adventure reading were the Tarzan books; they came out every few months. I could hardly wait for the next one to be issued, and my mother would always buy it for me. In the woods in back of our house, I tried to imitate Tarzan's vine-swinging antics and distinctive yell, much to the amusement of [sister] Catherine ."

The Overstreet Hall of Fame: John Buscema

Who are the individuals who have made great contributions to the comic book arts? Who are the writers, artists, editors, publishers and others who have plied their craft in insightful ways? The Overstreet Hall of Fame, which spotlights many such creators and leading figures, is featured in The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics.

Inspired by the work of Hal Foster, Alex Raymond, and Burne Hogarth, John Buscema began his career at Marvel Comics in 1948, when it was still Timely Comics. He stayed on staff there for a year and a half, afterward freelancing for a number of companies. After leaving the comics field to go into advertising in 1958, Buscema returned to comics — and Marvel in particular — in 1966, when his old boss Stan Lee brought him back to the “House of Ideas.” His Silver Age output could be seen within the pages of Avengers, Conan the Barbarian, Fantastic Four, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Silver Surfer, among others. He also co-wrote How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way with Stan Lee. His final published comics work was DC Comics’ Just Imagine Stan Lee with John Buscema Creating Superman. His is a talent that is greatly missed, but lives on in myriad four-color tales. – Scott Braden

FANTASY ADVENTURE LEGEND
FORREST J ACKERMAN

A birthday party held for Forry Ackerman in 1967.
Ray Bradbury at the lectern and seated are Wendayne Ackerman and Forry Ackerman.

Visit Forry's Ackermansion in ERBzine www.erbzine.com/mag1/0185.html and more Ackerman features: Sci-fi's grand old man, Forrest J Ackerman, dies  (1916-2008)  FORRY ACKERMAN'S "I HAVE TO HAND IT TO YOU" PROJECT  Forrest Ackerman Lives On by Guillermo del Toro Many More Dum-Dum Visits

HAROLD FOSTER

 

Visit the Harold Foster Tribute Pages Tarzan and Prince Valiant in ERBzine www.erbzine.com/mag8/0802.html www.erbzine.com/mag42/4201.html

THE REAL DENNY MILLER www.erbzine.com/denny

WHO??? WHA???

DENNY MILLER Health and Fitness Guru

It ain't Gordon Scott in the middle photo image from a video cover.
But it is ERB fan favourite: DENNY MILLER

The Top Ten Botched Escapes from Gilligan's Island

6. The Surfer Is it my imagination, or do an inordinate number of other people land on the island and somehow get off and manage to leave all seven castaways stuck there? And so we see the champion surfer, played by actor Denny Miller. Yes, he can surf off the island and get back to the mainland, but the muscular surfer has eyed the voluptuous Ginger and the innocent hottie Mary Anne. The girls respond in kind. After all, after several months of nothing but Gilligan, the skipper, and the professor, wouldn't you, ladies? But soon the ladies realize that they must act disinterested or the surfer dude will never want to leave. So Ginger and Mary Anne feign indifference to muscle boy (after initially drooling over his physique) and he decides to surf back to civilization. And he makes it -with one caveat. Surfer boy hits his head on a rock, gets amnesia, and can't remember any of the castaways or his experiences with them.

Bonomo Coulda Bin a Contender
Photo from the Ted McKosky Collection

Tarzan the Mighty (1928) -
From ERBzine.com/movies The original star was to have been Joe Bonomo, promoted by the studio as "the greatest of all Tarzans.''

Near the end of work on another picture, Perils of the Wild (1925), Bonono fractured his left leg and injured his sacro-iliac.

Frank Merrill, who had doubled for Elmo Lincoln in Perils of the Jungle (?) was offered the job and began work the next day.
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/2870.html

GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (1984) Blu-Ray(tm) Disc
Warner Archive has announced new releases.
The DVDs are Manufactured on Demand (MOD).; to order, fans must visit
The Warner Archive Collection (www.WarnerArchive.com or www.wbshop.com) Hugh Hudson's refreshingly adult revisionist take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal apeman arrives on Blu-ray like a blast of warm rain forest air. Robert Towne's script (writing as P.H. Vazak) hews close to Burroughs' origin as found in Tarzan of the Apes by way of modern anthropology. The second half may thread in some movie mythos (like Jane as English gentry) but plays out its savage vs. civilization theme. Gorgeously shot by John Alcott (The Shining, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), Greystoke also boasts an acting pedigree worthy of Burke's peerage, including Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm , David Suchet, James Fox, and Nigel Davenport with Andie MacDowell and Glenn Close handling Jane physicality and vocality respectively. But the film belongs to Lambert's heart-wide open performance as Tarzan and Rick Baker's amazing simian simulations.
Special Features: Commentary with Hugh Hudson and producer Garth Thomas, Theatrical Trailer. 16x9 Widescreen

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