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Edgar Rice Burroughs

ECLECTICA v.2016.07

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HUMOUR
PUNOGRAPHY
From the Madcap Mind of John "Bridge" Martin

The Tarzans and Janes Visit the Fair

  One March day in Huston, Elmo hopped in his Lincoln and drove a few Miles to the Kingston Fair. He walked past the cattle Barnes and the carnival Barker and the booth where they Pierce your navel, until he came to the cages, where he paid to look at the Pollar bear, the Wolf, the Hart and the rare French Crabbe, though he was careful not to get too Close.

  As Crosby crooned on the Fair loudspeaker to the sounds of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Elmo saw Gordon, Andie was with Brenda. Someone asked, "Where did Mar go." But nobody knew. So they all went to the Dunbar, where Elmo ordered a Jock Buster, Gordon asked for a Scott on the Brix, and Brenda said she'd just have a Miller's, but she was also hungry and thought she'd have a Lydie Denier.

  Dempsey Tablered the bill and Elmo took out a fifty and Bennett and told the waiter to keep any extra Mahoney.

  Gordon and Brenda left to ride on the Merrill-go-round. Afterward, Brenda had her fortune told by the Wise Muller and Gordon had fun as a Minnie Driver on the bumper car ride. Elmo, seeking something more macho, went to the Maureen recruiter's booth and picked up some flyers.

  He then hit the midway for a game of chance, successfully anagramming Enid's name as Dien, to win a free ride home in Casper's Van.


Photo Phinish
  Kodak the Klicker
dumped the arrows out of his quiver and rummaged around in the junk at the bottom until he found what he was looking for. "My Brownie camera," he said proudly, holding it out so that his wife, Minolta, could see it.

  "Now, smile," he said, placing the camera up to his face so he could look through the little view-finder. Minolta obediently placed her right palm against the side of her head and her left hand on her hip in the classic pinup girl pose.

  Kodak pressed the shutter and heard the satisfying sound of the click.

  At that moment there was a sound of crashing bushes and trees and both turned to look in time to see Tenba the elephant charging into the clearing. "Oh no," wailed Kodak. "I left my spear back by that big tree. I don't have time to get it. We'll be trampled to death."

   Fortunately, there was another crashing sound as Toshiba of the Apes dropped from a tree limb above and stood between Kodak and Minolta, facing Tenba and raising his hand in a warning gesture. Tenba came to a screeching halt.

  Minolta screamed as another creature dropped down from the tree. It was Hasselblad, the snake, hissing hysterically at having missed his intended prey, Toshiba, and now casting his beady, slitted eyes on the frightened girl.

  Fortunately, Bogen, the rhinocerous, charged into the clearing from one direction and Nikon, the lion, came roaring in from other. The two natural enemies saw each other and lowered their heads in the traditional butting position and headed for an ear-shattering collision. It was Hasselblad's misfortune that he was hanging between the two and had no time to lift his body out of the way before the behemoths banged into each other, squashing Hasselblad along with each other's skulls.

  The entire incident took place alongside the Canon River and Graflex, the crocodile, lugged his bulky body up over the muddy bank just far enough to get a toothhold on Nikon's foot so he could drag the body of the King of Beasts back into the river with him. Sony, the leopard, came from the other direction to start eating on Bogen.

  All the while, Kodak clicked his camera crazily at all of the amazing action.

  "Well," said Toshiba. "What say the three of us hop on the back of Tenba here and ride away from this place."

  "Great idea, Dad," said Kodak. "I can get some great shots from Tenba's back."

  "Is that all you ever think about," said Toshiba. "Taking pictures?"

  "No it's not, Dad," replied Kodak. "I also think about getting to the Nairobi Trading Post where I can buy some film for this thing."


BURROUGHS FAMILY HISTORY
On this 50th Anniversary of the first television appearances of
STAR TREK and TARZAN TV SERIES
we off this bit of info:
Family Relationship of Gene Roddenberry
Creator of Star Trek
11th cousin one-time removed to
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author of Tarzan and John Carter
Famous Kin Site

MORE
BURROUGHS GENEALOGICAL NOTES
A Letter, Documents and Links to Family Research 
http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1178.html
Burroughs and Ralston Family Marriages 
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0930.html
Births and Deaths
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0929.html
Burroughs Family Stories
http://www.erbzine.com/mag27/2754.html


Tarzana ERB, Inc. Disaster ~ May 5, 1958
www.erbzine.com/mag30/3014.html


Jane Ralston Burroughs
www.ERBzine.com/jrb


PHOTOS

Arthur C. Clarke 1951

Johnny Weissmuller and Edgar Rice Burroughs

ART

ERB, Inc.'s Cathy Mann Wilbanks
by Jason Hardy

I celebrated Michael Wm Kaluta's birthday last month 
by purchasing this fine book. Great Kaluta illustrations

Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Jeff Jones
Jeff Jones art at:
www.erbzine.com/mag3/0315.html

Kaluta portrait by Donato Giancola
Kaluta's CARSON OF VENUS strips

 Will Meugniot's frontispiece and title page drawings for
Michael A. Sanford's Tarzan on the Precipice
About the artist: Will Meugniot has enjoyed a long career in comics and animation.
In comics his major work is as co-creator of the DNAgents, recently published as a “phone book” style reprint by Shadowline/Image. His other comics work includes Marvel (Tigra) Chillers, Marvel Team Up, Howard the Duck, Tarzan, Korak, Fem Force and Exotic Fantasy. 

In animation Meugniot has served as producer and/or director of many projects, including: Jem, EXOsquad, The Real Ghostbusters, X-Men The Animated Series, Conan The Adventurer, Spider-Man Unlimited, Captain Planet, Bob the Builder and G.I. Joe Valor VS Venom. 

Will has just wrapped work on his online comic strip Jungle Girl, and Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics


edgarriceburroughs.com/store
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Cover Art for Jungle Stories mag entitled
Huntress and the Hell Pack by George Cross.
New Zealand 1949

Denny Miller Lives On
Submitted by Bill Wagner
www.ERBzine.com/denny

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NEW RELEASES

A New Dark Horse Tarzan Comic
Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1

Beware the beast man, for he is the devil’s pawn.

More about Richard Lupoff at
www.erbzine.com/mag30/3048.html


FILM

When Tarzan returns to the jungle, his friends, the animals don't recognize him.
Nutty Tantor
Silent Film Star Mabel Normand with an elephant made of walnuts.

Silent film star Baby Peggy and her family 
were friends of author Edgar Rice Burroughs and Emma,
and she is one of the few people alive who knew ERB.
Diana Serra Cary 
(born Peggy-Jean Montgomery/aka Baby Peggy)
will observe her 98th birthday on October 29, 2016.
Help Baby Peggy
MAILSTROM
PLANNED HAL FOSTER EXHIBIT IN NOVA SCOTIA
Letter from Sid Weiskirch
I wrote a post on the Edgar Rice Burroughs group's FB page about the possible burroughs\Foster museum in Nova Scotia. 
There might be a connection to the traveling exhibit by the Smithstonian at the Skokie Library where the Hal Foster exhibit is in storage.
I forgot to mention that for more information, go to
https://sidneyweiskirch.wordpress.com/

Following are a few videos regarding an exhibit I used to take to local libraries and museums throughout the Chicagoland area regarding the history of Hal Foster and his birthing the Sunday comic industry:
Exhibit About Hal Foster (Video)
“The Art Of Hal Foster” Part 1:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ1Ugnnh_Tk
“The Art of Hal Foster” Part 2 :
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjh5CkryPI8
“Comic Book Collecting” (North Suburban Library System):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4adlK0SqQ4
ARTICLE:
Modern Day Superhero Industry Born In Chicago
As you know, there are hundreds of millions of us all over the world. The TRILLION DOLLAR SUPER HERO INDUSTRY started in the newspaper Sunday comics in the 1930’s.

The next step was comic books, radio serials, TV series, movie serials, next came block buster one half billion dollar movies, Broadway shows, video games, (a billion dollar industry itself), and now beautiful graphic novels. Many side industries grew. Toys, clothes, even the Disney empire rode the wave of comic popularity.

Perhaps, you would like to know who was responsible for all of this, and why no one knows anything about it ?

DID YOU KNOW THAT TWO CHICAGO MEN WERE THE ONES  RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING BIRTH TO THIS GIGANTIC INDUSTRY? 
THERE IS A STORY HERE WORTHY OF A BLOCK BUSTER MOVIE TELLING THE TRUE STORY OF HOW IT ALL STARTED IN THE 1920’s and 1930’s 
IN AN ART STUDIO ON MICHIGAN AVENUE IN CHICAGO. . . .  more 

Editor's Note:
An interesting project. The two Chicago-based men mentioned in the article are Joe Neebe and Hal Foster 
BUT . . . obviously a third name must be added to this: Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Visit our
HAL FOSTER TARZAN SUNDAY PAGES CONTENTS
 1931 and 1932
http://www.erbzine.com/mag55/5500.html
1933
 http://www.erbzine.com/mag59/5900.html
and our
PRINCE VALIANT PAGES
Starting at:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag42/4201.html

ARTICLES
TARZAN FACTS THAT EVERY ERBzine READER  KNOWS
Reprinted from
Nerdvanamedia.com as
"10 swinging fun facts behind The Legend of Tarzan"
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first Tarzan story, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in the October 1912 edition of The All-Story pulp magazine. The author first began writing the tale of the orphaned babe raised by apes on Dec. 1, 1911.
  • Tarzan was raised by the fictional simian tribe known as the Mangani, meaning “great-ape” in their own elaborate language, which was invented by Burroughs. Other Mangani words include: Tarzan (white-skin); Numa (lion); Histah (snake); Bolgani (gorilla); Manu (monkey); and Tarmangani (white human being or white great ape.) You can read a scholarly article by Dr. Peter Coogan about the great apes’ language and an extensive listing of words over at the Official Philip José Farmer Web Page.
  • Batman is often considered the first “superhero” without actual super-powers, but the truth is that Bob Kane’s caped-crusader was at least partially inspired by Tarzan (not to mention The Shadow and Doc Savage as well.) Both Bruce Wayne and John Clayton (Tarzan’s real name) were orphaned as children, inherited fortunes, and would go on to fight injustice and evil using their wits and physical prowess. The big difference is that Tarzan doesn’t have all the fancy gizmos. As Jane states in the upcoming film, “No man ever started with less.”
  • The love of Tarzan’s life, Jane, has been portrayed in the movies as both American and British. The best known Jane was played by Maureen O’Sullivan in the Johnny Weissmuller films from the ’30s and ’40s, where she was an English woman named “Jane Parker.” The real Jane, from the books, is an American woman (Jane Porter) from Baltimore.
  • Tarzan’s father, the British Lord Greystoke, is killed by the Mangani leader, Kerchak; but when Tarzan, nurtured and raised by the she-ape Kala, becomes a young adult he avenges his father by killing the malevolent Kerchak and taking on his role as the king of the tribe.
  • The first Tarzan movie was a silent film released almost 100 years ago. Tarzan of the Apes hit theaters in 1918 and starred the very stout Elmo Lincoln as the Ape Man, and the doe-eyed Enid Markey as Jane. The movie was a huge hit, but author Edgar Rice Burroughs was not thrilled with the casting of Tarzan. (You can watch the film on YouTube HERE!)
  • The Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan pulp stories have been re-published into 24 novels in multiple languages. Most of the tales are set in Africa, although the author never actually set foot on the continent
  • Jane Porter is one of the first female characters in popular culture to be written as a strong, independently-minded woman; even though her Ape Man often arrives just in the nick of time to save her skin.
  • The fictional character of Tarzan is one of the best known and most popular characters the world over. His pulp magazine heroics have inspired countless other adventure heroes and have greatly influenced the serial storytelling medium as a whole.
  • While some believe that Burroughs’ Ape Man was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the late author always maintained Tarzan of the Apes was his original tale and that if he was subliminally influenced by anything it was most likely the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Rocky has good taste in reading material
You too can read ERB's THE DEPUTY SHERIFF OF COMANCHE COUNTY at:
www.erbzine.com/mag7/0777.html


ERBzine Archive Updates
POSTER COLLAGES (click)
ERBzine Archive Features
Feature 10: ERBzine 0253
FORTININO MATANIA Art
From ERB's Amtor/Venus Series
www.erbzine.com/mag2/0253.html
www.erbzine.com/mag2/0254.html
Feature 11: ERBzine 0731
REED CRANDALL ART
From ERB's Tarzan and the Madman
See larger images and much more in C.H.A.S.E.R.
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0731.html
Feature 12: ERBzine 0865
TARZAN, JR., featured in 
Colleen Moore's miniature Fairy Castle Collection at
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. 
http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0865.html
Feature 13: ERBzine 4550
DENNY MILLER CAREER FLASHBACKS 
Denny shares anecdotes from 
his long career in show business
http://www.erbzine.com/mag45/4550.html
Feature 12: ERBzine 5831
Bob Hibbard ~ ERB LeatherMeister
Incredible leatherwork in a series of 
ERBzine pages starting at:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5831.html
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CARTOONS
Thanks to John "Bridge" Martin for sharing most of these cartoons.
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www.ERBzine.com/cartoons

Cellucidar?: The unthinkable horror of what it's like to live in Pellucidar.


Tarzan by Jack Davis
For more Jack Davis see
http://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5817.html


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