Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5673 |
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Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5673 |
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DC did some things even more inconsistently than Gold Key. I don’t recall Gold Key putting a lot of titles in quotation marks, but DC did ... sporadically. On the title listings, I added extra “” whenever it was presented in quotations. Likewise, you will notice title headings like Chapter 3 and Chapter Four. Sometimes they used the number and sometimes the spelled word. This again, is copying DC’s title page presentation. I quoted their quotes. I listed the chapters as they did. There are other inconsistencies. Like Ape Man and Ape-Man. I’m not spazzing out at the keyboard. Just transcribing. |
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TARZAN DC COMICS #207-227 http://www.erbzine.com/comics/dc1.html |
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April 1972 "Tarzan -- Origin of the Ape-Man -- Book One"
~ 26 pp.
Searching for her lost father in Africa, a young girl is saved from a black
panther by a white Ape-Man
War comics veteran Joe Kubert brings his flair for action to DC Comics’ first issue. The never named girl provides the framing sequence as her guide tells the Ape-man’s incredible story. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic origin story of Tarzan of the Apes begins with the heir of a British aristocracy being born to doomed castaways on the coast of Africa, and his adoption by an ape-mother. 1 pp. text
3 pp. Newspaper Strip Reprints
8 pp.
1 pp. Poster
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May 1972 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Origin of the Ape Man -- A Son’s Vengeance -- Book 2" ~ 26 pp. (no hyphen on Ape Man this time) 
Raised by Apes, a young boy grows up wild in the jungles of Africa.
In the cabin of his dead parents, Tarzan finds books and teaches himself to read and write. To avenge the murder of his adopted she-ape mother, Kala, by the warrior Kulonga, Tarzan kills a man for the first time. With Kulonga’s bow and arrows, Tarzan is soon master over both beast and man. Featuring modern art and storytelling techniques, the now giant-sized Tarzan comics return to a monthly schedule. 3 pp. Newspaper Strip Reprint
8 pp.
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June 1972 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert “Tarzan -- Origin of the Ape-Man -- A Mate for the Ape-Man -- Book 3" ~ 24 pp. (The hyphen is BACK in Ape-Man)  Tarzan fights and
kills Kerchak, the King Ape who murdered his father.
Tarzan takes his final step into manhood by avenging his father’s death. Now King of the Apes, Tarzan falls in love at first sight when Jane Porter of Baltimore is marooned at Tarzan’s childhood cabin with her father and Tarzan’s cousin, William Clayton. Jane is saved repeatedly from danger, but never sees her mysterious guardian angel until Tarzan fights a gorilla to the death to win his woman. Let the romance begin! 3 pp. Newspaper Strip Reprint
8 pp.
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July 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Completion: Origin of the Ape-Man! ~ 24 pp. Civilization -- Book 4" (Ape-Man now with an exclamation point!)  Tarzan finds love
with Jane Porter, only to lose her.
While Tarzan is saving French naval officer Lieutenant Paul D’Arnot from cannibals, Jane and party are rescued. Tarzan resolves to find her and makes his first trip to civilization, where D’Arnot learns that Tarzan is really the heir to the Greystoke estate. When Tarzan finds Jane, she’s betrothed to his cousin William, holder of the Greystoke estate. In an act of noble self-sacrifice, Tarzan renounces his heritage. “My mother was an ape! I never knew who my father was!” In the framing sequence, Tarzan reunites the huntress with her lost father. The format is reduced in size and price from 25 cents to 20 cents.
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August 1972 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Joe Kubert/Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Joe Kubert/Burne Hogarth "Tarzan -- 'Land of the Giants'" ~ 22 pp.  Whoever drinks
the Forbidden Water instantly grows huge and strong ... and loses their
soul!
This issue mixes the artwork of two different artists from decades apart. And not with simple framing sequences. The newspaper strip work of Burne Hogarth is expanded with extra panels and details provided by Joe Kubert. The styles are different, but the blending together works surprisingly well, as Tarzan fights a colossal lion and insane giants. The climax has Tarzan battling a monstrous ape.. atop a flying plane. 2 pp. Newspaper Strip Reprint
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September 1972 18 pp. “Tarzan -- “The Captive!”“ Writer: Joe Kubert Pencils: Joe Kubert Inks: Joe Kubert Cover: Joe Kubert  About to be
burned at the stake, Tarzan calls for Tantor the elephant to come crashing
to his rescue.
This chapter from Burroughs’ “Jungle Tales of Tarzan” is adapted again. But this time there’s plenty of room for more dramatic presentation of the story. Tied between two stakes, Tarzan wrenches one post completely out of the ground. 1 pp. text
1 pp Poster
3 & 1/2 pp.
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October 1972 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- 'Balu of the Great Apes'" ~ 18 pp.  A baby ape is attacked
by a pair of panthers.
Set in the time before Tarzan met Jane, when he was still completely wild, this is an adaptation of “The Fight for the Balu” from “Jungle Tales of Tarzan,.” In Ape language, Balu means baby ape. An overprotective mother doesn’t want Tarzan anywhere near her baby. But that changes after Tarzan saves her Balu from hungry panthers. 6 pp.
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November 1972 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- 'The Nightmare'" ~ 18 pp.  In another “Jungle
Tale,” rancid food gives Tarzan bad dreams.
No bad pizza in this story. But plenty of salmonella Stealing a meal from a Gomangani village pot, Tarzan eats cooked meat for the first time. But the meal doesn’t settle in his stomach. In his nightmares, Tarzan battles a stone lion and the legendary Roc, both of which vanish after he wakes. When he’s attacked by an albino gorilla, he thinks it’s another dream, until almost too late. 6 pp.
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December 1972 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Joe Kubert/Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Joe Kubert/Hal Foster "Tarzan -- 'The Mine'" ~ 18 pp.  Tarzan and a slave
revolt are trapped in an underground mine, sealed off with dynamite.
Tarzan is trapped with slaves in the mine for the first and second time. This story was done once about the television Tarzan in #162. This issue reprints an earlier Foster newspaper strip, mixed with new Joe Kubert artwork. This time Tarzan doesn’t just get lucky. Sealed in the water-filling mine, he finds escape through a small air shaft. Tarzan then finishes the slave revolt by blowing up the mining buildings. With Foster’s art, there are times when Tarzan looks a lot like Prince Valiant. 6 pp.
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January 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- “The Renegades'" ~ 18 pp.  Renegades loot an
ancient monarch’s tomb in the City of the Dead.
Masquerading as natives, white renegades raid a missionary hospital to steal tools and dynamite, which they use to blast their way into the tomb of a long-dead monarch. Greed over the fabulous wealth they discover quickly turns the men against each other. After treachery and a tomb trap decimate their numbers, Tarzan eliminates the last two renegades with a single spear throw. Resealing the tomb, Tarzan takes the largest gem and donates it to the hospital’s reconstruction. 6 pp.
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February 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- 'The Black Queen'" ~ 17 & 2/3 pp.  A dying man tells
Tarzan the tragic story a peaceful valley people’s enslavement.
When the youthful Kyra escaped the slavers who murdered her father, the valley people welcomed her. But Kyra was filled with hate for anyone with a white skin, and immediately had the valley subjugated. Pitted against a black lion, Tarzan befriends the beast and together they rout the Queen’s guard. But, before the valley people can take their revenge on Kyra, Tarzan stops the cycle of vengeance and hatred. He teaches the lesson that people with differences must live together in peace. 6 pp.
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March 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- 'The Trophy'" ~ 17 & 1/2 pp.  A trophy-hunter
shoots at Tarzan and kills the black lion instead.
The black lion from last issue sacrificed himself to save Tarzan. Having warned the hunter several times to stop butchering rare animals, Tarzan chases the now-frightened trophy hunter, tormenting him day and night like in many stories from the Marsh-era. Unlike those earlier stories, this hunter doesn’t make it out alive. When he stumbles into quicksand, he calls to Tarzan for help. The ape-man replies, “Let your rifle pull you out!” In an epilog, the black lion’s mate gives birth to a black cub. 6 pp.
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April 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Part 1 -- Trial by Treachery" ~ 17 & 2/3 pp.  Tarzan walks into
a trap set by his archenemy, a Russian spy named Nickolas Rokoff.
Actually, Tarzan walks into several traps set by Rokoff in this first of a five-part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Return of Tarzan. To learn French secrets, Rokoff is trying to set up a blackmail scheme against his sister and her husband, Count De Coup. But Tarzan outsmarts and out-muscles Rokoff and his henchman, Paulvitch. As Rokoff’s hatred for the ape-man grows, Tarzan is distracted. He’s just gotten bad news. Jane Porter will marry his cousin William in two week’s time. 2 pp.
3 pp. text/photos.
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June 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Part 2 -- Fury in the Desert" ~ 18 pp.  The term ‘Secret
Agent-Man’ becomes ‘Secret Agent-Apeman.’
Enlisted by Count De Coup to be a secret agent, Tarzan is betrayed in the desert. Aspects of The Return of Tarzan excised in the previous adaptation are presented for the first time. Sent to Algeria to investigate a French officer suspected of treason, Tarzan is attacked and rescues the daughter of Sheik Ben Saden from slavery. Later, when a desert trap is sprung by the same Arabs, this time it’s Ben Saden’s daughter who saves Tarzan. There’s also a classic knife fight with a lion. Tarzan has learned that Lt. Gernoi is a traitor, and his contact is Tarzan’s archenemy, Nickolas Rokoff! 1 pp.
2 pp. text
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July 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Part 3 --Return to the Primitive" ~ 18 pp.  Far out at sea,
Tarzan is thrown overboard by the Russian spy, Nickolas Rokoff..
Rokoff took his revenge against Tarzan when he was distracted by news from a fellow passenger. Jane Porter’s best friend, Hazel Strong, had told Tarzan how Jane fell in love in the jungle, but was about to enter a loveless marriage. Rokoff befriends Hazel and they encounter Jane and William Clayton at Capetown. But their next cruise boat explodes and strands them all at sea. Meanwhile, after swimming to the African shore where he was born, Tarzan becomes Chief of the Waziri tribe. 3 pp. Newspaper Strip Reprint
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August 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Part 4 -- The City of Gold" ~ 18 pp.  The Waziri tell
Tarzan about a forbidden city, filled with golden treasure!
For the third time... Tarzan meets Queen La, the High Priestess of Opar for the first time. Tarzan escapes the city with the Oparians in hot pursuit. But when the beastmen arrive at the coast, they encounter a group of castaways and carry off Jane Porter! Escaping, Rokoff abandons William Clayton to the jungle’s mercies. Tarzan learns from his ape friends that a white girl has been captured, and returns to Opar in time to discover that Jane, the woman he loves, is about to be sacrificed under La’s knife. 3 pp. text/photos
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100 Page Super Spectacular #DC-19 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Russ Manning "Tarzan -- Tarzan and the Elephant's Guardian" ~ 25 pp.  While trying to
save elephants from poachers, Tarzan and Korak discover a siren ghost is
also protecting the herd.
Manning may be an old-school artist by definition and panel arrangement, but his crisp line work and dynamic presentation of characters and action make his work timeless. 24 pp.
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6 pp. text
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September 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Conclusion -- Part 5 -- The Pit of Doom" ~ 18 pp.  Even after Tarzan
saves Jane Porter from sacrifice on the altar of Opar, Queen La makes a
pass at him.
Tarzan and Jane renew their love affair. William Clayton, Jane’s former fiancee and the man falsely holding the Greystoke title, dies. After Rokoff attacks Tarzan with a shovel and turns on Jane, the only thing that stops Tarzan at simply breaking Rokoff’s arm is the arrival of a French cruiser. Leaving the Russian to the authorities is a decision Tarzan will come to regret in the subsequent novel. Next to the cabin where he was born, Tarzan and Jane Porter are married. This concludes one of the longest Tarzan adaptations. 2 pp.
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October 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- Death Is My Brother" ~ 18 pp.  Hidden inside Opar’s
Temple of Blood is Rokar, a gigantic misshapen monster ... who is also
Queen La’s brother!
Tarzan answers High Priestess La’s plea for help when Kla, a priest from the Temple of Blood, leads a revolt. But Tarzan, La, and her handmaiden are captured and sentenced to death at Rokar’s hands. There’s a visually effective scene where the handmaiden’s brutal murder is silhouetted on the wall. Enraged, Tarzan ... well, he appropriately goes ape. When Rokar finally recognizes La, he turns on Kla. The family reunion ends when Tarzan brings down the temple walls and La is restored as Queen. 2 pp.
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November 1973 Cover/Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- “Moon Beast'" ~ 18 pp.  When the full moon
rises, a monstrous creature stalks unwary B’Tunga villagers.
A mother and child are torn to pieces by something neither beast nor man. Zothar, the Medicine Man, blames Tarzan. But the half-man and half-beast creature, with lion’s claws and bull’s horns, is actually controlled by Zothar. When Tarzan is about to be forced into the Pit of the Ancient Ones, where his innocence can only be proved by surviving a nest of cobras, the Moon Beast appears, seeking its master. Tarzan kills the beast, and Zothar is proven guilty in trial of the pit. 2 pp.
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December 1973 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Pencils and Inks: Russ Manning Writer: Uncredited / additional dialogue by Carl Gafford "Tarzan -- Tarzan Walks Among Us!" ~ 17 pp.  Captain Paul D’Arnot
narrates the story of his first meeting with Tarzan.
For fans of Russ Manning’s art, these reprints of his Tarzan newspaper strips were a real treat! D’Arnot tells of the time when he was a Junior Officer and Tarzan saved him from the torture stake of cannibals. The tale continues through Tarzan learning to speak French and the ape-man’s first encounter with civilization. Carl Gafford’s additional dialogue did a great job of reformatting this strip into the modern comics format. Manning was always one of the more popular Tarzan artists. 3 pp.
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