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ERB'S LIFE and LEGACY :: DAILY EVENTS
A COLLATION OF THE DAILY EVENTS IN ERB-WORLD
FROM THE PAGES OF ERBzine CREATED BY BILL HILLMAN
Collated by John Martin and Bill Hillman
With Web Design, Added Events, Links,
Illustrations and Photo Collages by Bill Hillman
FULL YEAR'S CONTENTS

AUGUST CONTENTS: WEEK FOUR
AUG 22 ~ AUG 23 ~ AUG 24 ~ AUG 25 ~ AUG 26
AUG 27 ~ AUG 28 ~ AUG 29 ~ AUG 30 ~ AUG 31

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AUGUST 22

John Coleman Burroughs: Artist, Writer and Youngest child of ERB: JCB's Cover and Interior Art
for Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion" ~ Ray Bradbury: His Life In Pictures and his Debt to ERB



*** 1947: "Tarzan and 'The Foreign Legion'" was the last Tarzan book to be published in ERB's lifetime rolled off the presses this date, Aug. 22, in 1947.
Unlike other Tarzan stories,  had not first seen print in a magazine version. If you didn't have the hardbound, first edition, then you didn't have the story at all!
That was the way it was until the 1960s, during the ERB paperback boom, when Ballantine published the then full set of 22 Tarzan novels. But, before long, two other books were added. in hardback form by Canaveral Press and in paperback by Ballantine. One, "Tarzan and the Castaways," reprinted three shorter Tarzan stories that previously had appeared only in magazines: "Tarzan and the Champion," "Tarzan and the Jungle Murders" and "The Quest of Tarzan" were combined into the book, "Tarzan and the Castaways," and "Tarzan and the Madman" was a complete novel that ERB had left behind when he died in 1950. Although the title might lead one to believe that the story is about Tarzan in the Sahara Desert, joining up with French Legionnaires, it actually takes place on the island of Sumatra during World War II, with Tarzan teaming up with a group of diverse people (the "foreign legion") to battle Japanese troops.
    Still unpublished in all its purity is an 83-page Tarzan manuscript, the start to another novel, written by ERB. That manuscript was revised somewhat by Joe Lansdale and expanded into the novel, "Tarzan: The Lost Adventure." ERB's true version has yet to be made available to fans. I have a copy of ERB's original typed manuscript in my Brandon library and comparing the changes that Lansdale made to ERB's story makes for a fascinating exercise.

ERB Bio Notes: The dedication is: "To Brigadier General Turman H. Landon". Landon is the Commanding General of the Bomber Command of the 7th Air Force stationed at Hickam Field near Honolulu, Oahu. In the book ERB pokes fun at another wartime friend, Colonel Kendall J. Fielder, picturing him dressed up as a witch doctor.
*** 2019: In preparation for our 2019 month-long adventure in Indonesia, starting with a trek through the jungles and volcanoes of Sumatra, we re-read Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion. ERB's words were ever on our minds as we explored the jungles in search of orangutans, tigers, snakes and one-horned rhinos. The experiences of Tarzan and the book's characters were with us as we climbed volcanoes and sailed across a huge crater lake to visit native villages on the crater's island. The atrocities of the Jap invaders were related to us by the older people. The Dutch influence was still very much in evidence -- especially in Jakarta where we explored their large buildings that surround a massive city square, as well as seeing much of the surviving infrastructure of canals and ports. We took thousands of photos which are shared on our main Hillman Travel Adventures pages.

Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion": Art, Reviews, History
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0732.html
"Foreign Legion": Read our e-Text Edition
http://www.erbzine.com/craft/tzfl.html
ERB: The War Years Series
http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1019.html
Tarzan and the Castaways
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0730.html
Tarzan and the Madman
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0731.html
Tarzan: The Lost Adventure
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0733.html
Hillmans' Indonesia Adventure
https://www.hillmanweb.com/indonesia/
https://www.hillmanweb.com/indonesia/sumatra/sumatraintroall.jpg
https://www.hillmanweb.com/indonesia/sumatra/
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/art/jcblegionall.jpg
*** 1920: Ray Bradbury
(1920.08.22-2012.06.05), Tarzan fan and superb fictioneer in his own write, was born on this date in Waukegan, Illinois. He passed away in Los Angeles, in between the ECOF and the Dum Dum, both of which were held that year in the L.A. suburb of Woodland Hills. Bradbury's personal book collection was willed to the library in the town of his birth.
    I've been a longtime fan of Ray Bradbury. I had featured his books and stories in the Science Fiction section of the literature courses I taught in high school and university. His themes in Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles were great to explore in these classes.
    Bradbury never missed an opportunity to express his respect for Burroughs:  "Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world. By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special. . . .  I've talked to more biochemists and more astronomers and technologists in various fields, who, when they were ten years old, fell in love with John Carter and Tarzan and decided to become something romantic. Burroughs put us on the moon."
    "My next madness happened in 1931, when Harold Foster’s first series of Sunday color panels based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “Tarzan” appeared, and I simultaneously discovered, next door at my uncle Bion’s house, the “John Carter of Mars” books. I know that “The Martian Chronicles” would never have happened if Burroughs hadn’t had an impact on my life at that time. I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would sit and listen. I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, “Take me home!” I yearned to fly away and land there in the strange dusts that blew over dead-sea bottoms toward the ancient cities."
    "Throughout his many novels, Burroughs carries on a timeless tradition of weaving the fabric of fantasy and the morals and ideals of society into one whole that became a commentary on the culture in which he lived. Burroughs stands separate from Verne and Kipling because of his romantic "unreason." ... Burroughs "unreason" is rooted in his portrayal of scenes. He shows his characters as lifelike and believable, but puts them in an environment that is scientifically or realistically unlikely. Burroughs' difference and popularity stems from his readers' belief that Burroughs' worlds and characters could possibly exist, however highly unlikely that might seem."
    "There is no doubt in my mind that without the early influence of ERB I would never have “arrived” on the planet Mars, myself. . . . My first great love in book-reading, was Burroughs. I lived on Mars a good many fine years with John Carter. I shall not forget those years."
*** I regret never having the chance to meet Mr. Bradbury, but I did speak with him on the phone. While staying at Danton Burroughs' house after having flown down from Canada to give the eulogy at the Memorial and Celebration of Dan's Life, I took a phone call from Ray. He was phoning from a convention in San Diego and had called to give his regrets that he couldn't make it to Tarzana to pay his respects to Dan.
Ray Bradbury: A Life in Pictures
http://www.erbzine.com/mag37/3734.html
Tarzan, John Carter, Mr. Burroughs, and the Long Mad Summer of 1930
http://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3571.html
The Wizard from Waukegan
http://www.erbzine.com/mag37/3743.html
Ray Remembers ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag37/3734.html#erb
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/writers2/bradburyerbporges.jpg
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/writers4/bradburyerbconnectionall.jpg

Off-Site Reference
Nowak Meeting


More Notes From my ERB Bio Timeline:
*** 1921: Great Western Producing Co. produced the complete Adventures of Tarzan with Elmo Lincoln. Advertised as "picturized" from the concluding chapters of Return of Tarzan
Adventures of Tarzan
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0590.html
*** 1924: Ed made notes on the trip to Mono Creek and Porpoise Lake: 10-page description written on a fishing excursion with sons into the Sierras. Doodad was created on this trip. Early symptons of heart trouble

ERB's DOO-DAD
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/smdoo.jpg
*** 1937: "Man-Eaters" an article on the behaviour of lions, appears in Sunday Magazine of the Los Angeles Times.

Man-Eaters!
http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0071.html

*** 1939: Harry Monty, a dwarf who doubled as Boy in Tarzan Finds a Son, wrote to request a meeting with ERB.
*** 1945: ERB at first considered the parking lot incident a joke but became embarrassed by it and avoided reporters.
ERB Bio Timeline
http://www.ERBzine.com/bio


AUGUST 23

Tom Grindberg ERB Artist: Martian Legion, Tarzan ~ Vera Miles with Scott: Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Quest of Tarzan in Argosy ~ Tarzan German-Devourer ~ Burroughs Dredge on Snake River




*** 1930: Vera Miles was born on this date in Boise City, Oklahoma, as Vera Ralston, which was also the maiden name of John Coleman Burroughs' wife, Jane. It is also the middle name of Danton's daughter, Dejah.
Vera has been in just about every kind of movie there is, as well as in a whole lot of television shows. She was in several big-time John Wayne films, such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," "The Searchers," and "The Hellfighters"...and her scenes as John Wayne's wife were cut from "The Green Berets." She was in episodes of "The Twilight Zone," "Wagon Train," and "The Man from UNCLE," to name a few TV outings, and was arrested by Columbo for the murder of Martin Sheen in the 1973 episode, "Lovely but Lethal." In 1960's "Psycho," she was the older, longer-lived sister of Janet Leigh, another Columbo murderer. Her co-star in "Psycho," John Gavin, along with Linda Christian, from "Tarzan and the Mermaids," were the only Hollywood stars to attend Johnny Weissmuller's funeral in Acapulco in 1984.
But our interest today is that she played a gal named Jill Hardy opposite Gordon Scott in his first role as the apeman in "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle" (1955). She was married to Gordon for awhile. The marriage certificate said they were the Werkshuls but they went to court to have the family named changed to Scott, to match Gordon's screen name.. She was also mother-in-law of Gabe Essoe, author of "Tarzan of the Movies."
(Note: It's a tough life to be an actor or actress and have your scenes cut from movies. Another scene that was cut was in "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle." Tarzan was trying to get some sleep but she kept pestering him, so he ordered her to get away from him, saying: "Miles to go before I sleep.")
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle with Vera Miles and Gordon Scott
http://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1953.html
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle Promo Splash Bar
http://www.erbzine.com/cards/film/scotthiddenall.jpg

Off-Site References
Miles/Scott timeline
Miles IMDB Filmography


*** 1941: "The Quest of Tarzan" began on this date in Argosy Weekly and was serialized for a total of three weeks. It was later one of three shorter ERB stories to be published in the trilogy, "Tarzan and the Castaways," by Canaveral and Ballantine in the 1960s. Virgil Finlay executed four illustrations for this pulp serial in Argosy including one cover and one interior drawing for each of the three parts, and published in Argosy Weekly, August 23 through September 6, 1941.Virgil Finlay interior art for The Quest of Tarzan in Argosy was inspired by Frederic Leighton’s bronze sculpture: An Athlete Wrestling with a Python (1877)
     In 1964, Canaveral Press published an edition from Burroughs' original manuscript, now titled TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS, in which form it is most easily found. (Included are two short stories from that period, "Tarzan and the Champion" and "Tarzan and the Jungle Murders".)
Quest in the Trilogy Book: Tarzan and the Castaways
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0730.html
Argosy Finlay Art for The Quest of Tarzan
http://www.ERBzine.com/cards/pulps/questpulps.jpg
http://www.erbzine.com/cards/art3/virgilfinlayquestoftarzan.jpg

*** 2012: Tom Grindberg, ERB comic artist, was interviewed by All-Pulpon Aug. 23, 2012. 70 large image examples of his Tarzan art plus photos and bio information are featured across three my ERBzine Webpages.
Tom Grindberg Tarzan Art I
http://www.erbzine.com/mag62/6275.html
Tom Grindberg Tarzan Art II plus All-Pulp Interview
http://www.erbzine.com/mag62/6276.html
Tom Grindberg Tarzan Art III and Bio
http://www.erbzine.com/mag62/6277.html
Sign up for and read sample comics at:
https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/
*** 1902:  (News Item: Idaho Daily Statesman ~ Boise, Idaho): Placer Mining in Cassia County: T. Coleman Burroughs of the Yale Dredging company, which is operating on the Snake river in Cassia county, was a Boise visitor Wednesday. He reported business good with its company, which had been securing very satisfactory returns.

The Burroughs / Idaho Connection
http://www.erbzine.com/idaho/
*** 1921: German publisher  requested permission to publish Jungle Tales of Tarzan instead of Tarzan the Terrible which had strong anti-German content

The ERB / Germany Incident
http://www.erbzine.com/mag32/3294.html
Tarzan the German-Devourer
http://www.erbzine.com/mag32/3296.html


AUGUST 24

Gaylord DuBois Comics Author of Tarzan, Brothers of the Spear and many more ~ ERB and Wife 2:
Hawaiian Honeymoon ~ Tarzan and Mate Jane married by her father ~ Tarzan Handwritten Script

Edgar Rice Burroughs' First Book: A Princess of Mars first submitted as "Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess" ~
First Published as: "Under the Moons of Mars" in All-Story: February 1912

*** 1899: Gaylord DuBois (1899.08.24-1993.10.20) was born on this date in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and died in Orange City, Florida. Before some of us discovered ERB's books, and in a much more detailed way than we saw in the movies, Gaylord DuBois was bringing Tarzan to life for us in those old Dell Comic books.
Most of us never even knew the name of the man who wrote those comics, and very likely -- back then, at least -- we didn't know the name of Jesse Marsh, the man who drew them, either.
    Besides writing Tarzan, Gaylord DuBois was also busy writing over 3,000 stories total, stories that would appear in the comics of some of our other favorite characters: Brothers of the Spear, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and a bunch of other TV cowboys, plus "funny" comics like Raggedy Ann, Tom and Jerry, Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman. He wrote Big Little Books and a few full-length novels, including "The Lone Ranger," which was credited to him in the first GandD editions but in later editions the book's author was listed as Fran Striker, the man who actually created the Lone Ranger character, so readers of the rest of Striker's books about the Masked Man "wouldn't be confused." A series of his comic stories, "Space Family Robinson," was the forerunner of the TV series, "Lost in Space."
    Seeing my interest in her Grandpa Gay. his granddaughter Wendy Hoffman shared some wonderful memories, bio info and photos of Mr. DuBois. These memories are featured in my ERBzine tribute series.
Gaylord DuBois and Family Speak ~ Bio
http://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2115.html
Gaylord DuBois: King of the Comics Writers
http://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2116.html
DuBois Dell Comics
http://www.erbzine.com/mag23/2395.html
DuBois Gold Key Comics
http://www.erbzine.com/mag25/2596.html
DuBois Brothers of the Spear
http://www.erbzine.com/mag23/2350.html

Off-Site References:
DuBois-Striker confusion:
DuBois in Wikipedia
DuBois in Blogspot


*** Tarzan actors could get divorced from their wives and even Tarzan's creator could get a divorce, but Tarzan himself? Never! The only way a Tarzan-Jane marriage could ever end would be "till death do ye part," and ERB flirted with that concept without much success.
An Aug. 24, 1938 Honolulu Star-Bulletin article noted that ERB had just arrived in Hawaii with his wife but didn't mention that it was his second wife after he had divorced Emma. However, the article did broach the subject of "one wife too many." It quotes ERB as saying, "I married Tarzan off in my second book. I know now that the wedding was a mistake... He's just not domestic." The item goes on to explain how ERB attributed the popularity of Tarzan to the suppressed desire in every man to be a "Tarzan," and battle lions and bellow like an ape. It also mentions ERB's refusal of $10,000 for the original manuscript of the first Tarzan story written in long hand.
Tarzan and His Mate
http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1127.html
Tarzan of the Apes
http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0483.html
MORE ERB BIO TIMELINE NOTES

*** 1911: Ed received a letter of tentative acceptance of his "Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess" manuscript from the managing editor of All-Story Magazine, Thomas Newell Metcalf of the Frank A. Munsey Company in New York.
LETTERS:
www.ERBzine.com/mag28/2832.html
ALL-STORY PULP:
www.ERBzine.com/mag2/0221.html
BOOK: A Princess of Mars
www.ERBzine.com/mag4/0421.html
*** 1915: Prospector synopsis, an expansion of For the Fool's Mother was written for film.
*** 1922: ERB applied for a loan to cover ranch losses. Considered subdividing 50 acres of  ranch land into business and residential lots.

ERBzine ERB Bio Timeline
http://www.ERBzine.com/bio
*** 1911:All-Story Acceptance of Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess 1911

http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/b110824.jpg
ERB's Response to Metcalf
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/b110826.jpg
Metcalf Correspondence with ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/2832.html


AUGUST 25

Forry Ackerman at Ackermansion ~ Dejah Burroughs (L) with mom Linda & sister Llana Jane at ComicCon
Cave Girl Dell PB ~ Michael Kaluta: Sample of his ERB art ~ Alexander "Tarzan" Skarsgard






*** 1947: Fantasy artist Michael Kaluta was born in Guatemala to U.S. citizens on this date. He studied at the Richmond Professional Institute. Kaluta's early work included a three-page adventure story, "The Battle of Shiraz", in Charlton Comics Flash Gordon #18 (Jan. 1970) and an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus novels from 1972 to 1974 for DC Comics. Kaluta's influences and style are drawn from pulp illustrations of the 1930s and the turn of the century poster work of Alphonse Mucha – his signature motif is elaborate decorative panel designs – rather than the comic books of the Silver Age.
His much-admired work includes illustration of comics and books as well as a talent in writing. He is well-known for his work on the DC version of "Carson of Venus" from 1972 to 1974. Among other projects, he has also lavishly illustrated a large-size edition of "A Princess of Mars," published in 2014 by IDW and many more featured in ERBzine.
    Michael Kaluta was one of the four comic book artists/fine illustrator/painters (the others being Jeffrey Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson) who formed the artists' commune The Studio in a loft in Manhattan's Chelsea district from 1975 to 1979. In addition to many comic book stories and covers, Kaluta has done a wide variety of book illustrations.
Michael Kaluta "A Princess of Mars" Illustrations
https://www.erbzine.com/mag62/6218.html
Michael Kaluta's Carson of Venus:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag41/4151.html
Kaluta's Pellucidar in Weird Worlds
http://www.ERBzine.com/mag41/4163.html
Kaluta art in the Outlaw of Torn Adaptation
http://www.erbzine.com/mag36/3601.html
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/art3/kalutaprincessofmarsall.jpg

Kaluta: American Mythology
Kaluta's Princess
Kaluta: Bio & art
Michael Kaluta in Wikipedia


*** 2010: Dejah is not only a creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but she's among his biggest fans. Dejah Burroughs, that is.
On Aug. 25, 2010, an article appeared in the Oak Park, Illinois, Patch, quoting Dejah, great-granddaughter of ERB, who -- with her sister Llana Jane and mother Linda -- were in the Chicago area for a convention of ERB fans. The convention, the Dum-Dum, had taken place in Hillsdale, a suburb of Chicago, Aug. 19-22. The interview with Dejah was at the ERB museum in nearby Oak Park.
"Before my dad (Danton Burroughs) passed away he made sure I would take this legacy on," Dejah said. "This is part of my life and my heritage and I should be thankful for what I have and what he gave me. It's a very important thing that we need to keep going for our young kids."
*** 2001: Sue-On and I received a card from proud parents, Danton and Linda Burroughs, announcing daughter Dejah Ralston Burroughs' graduation from William Howard Taft High School, Class of 2001 at 8:00 p.m., June 21, 2001. Dejah is grand daughter of Jane Ralston and John Coleman Burroughs and great grand daughter of Emma Centennia and Edgar Rice Burroughs  -- She celebrated a birthday yesterday. . . Congratulations Dejah!
Dejah Burroughs in Oak Park Patch
http://www.erbzine.com/mag31/3158.html
Dejah, Llana, Linda, Denny Miller and ERB Inc. staff: Vegas Expo
http://www.erbzine.com/mag33/3301.html
Burroughs Girls Open House in Tarzana
http://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3573.html
http://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3574.html
Danton Burroughs Tribute Site
http://www.dantonburroughs.com
Invitation to Dejah's Graduation
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0509.html
*** 1931: "Magnasplendent" was a word coined by 14-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman to describe "The Master Mind of Mars," the first ERB story he had ever read. When he discovered that the public library had other ERB books, he was delirious with joy. On Aug. 25, 1931, the teen-age Forry wrote to ERB to tell him how his teacher had categorically dismissed and disparaged the stories of ERB, while Forry spoke up in favor of the stories at every opportunity. It's normal to keep putting things off, and Forry waited almost too long before visiting Edgar Rice Burroughs in person. But visit him he did, when ERB was 73 years old. ERB died a few months before his 75th birthday. Read Forry's memories of that visit in ERBzine 0211.

Forrest J. Ackerman letter to ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/2857.html
Ackerman's Visit with ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag2/0211.html
Hillmans Visit Forry in Ackermansion I
http://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0185.html
Hillmans Visit Forry in Ackermansion II
http://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0186.html
*** 1976: Alexander Skarsgard,
who played Tarzan in the 2016 film: The Legend of Tarzan, was born on this date date in 1976 in Vallingby, Stockholm, Sweden. Skarsgard is a whippersnapper compared to many ERB fans, who were already born and old enough to read during the Burroughs publishing boom a decade before Skarsgard's nativity!
    Alexander, whose father Stellan Skarsgård is an acclaimed European actor, began his acting career at the age of eight and continued working in films and on Swedish television until he turned sixteen and decided acting was not the career for him. At the encouragement of his physician mother, My Skarsgård, he stopped working as an actor, to continue his education. Instead of continuing college, at the age of nineteen, he entered compulsory military service (military conscription). He used the time to contemplate his future. He appeared in a number of Swedish productions and became a star in his native country -- he was five times voted the sexiest man in Sweden -- but was interested in broadening his horizons and working outside of Sweden. A visit to Los Angeles landed him both an agent and a part in the Ben Stiller movie, Zoolander (2001) This led to a long series of very successful films and mini-series -- one of which was The Legend of Tarzan in 2016. Interestingly, he had co-starred with John Carter of Mars Actor, Canadian Taylor Kitsch, in the 2012 film Battleship.
    SKARSGARD QUOTES:
* "I see Tarzan as the original superhero. But he doesn't need a cape, or gadgets, or a mutation to be badass. His superpower lies in his fists. It's about what's a human being capable of physically. It's someone who learns to work with the jungle and not against it."
* "It was important to me that before he met other people, the character never used to wear clothes. It would look absurd if a man raised by apes would suddenly start blushing and covering up. Tarzan would go naked and so I had to as well. The jungle's very humid. I'm quite pleased I didn't have to wear any clothes." He is the first Tarzan actor to not wear a loincloth.
* "It was crucial that I had the right muscles. I did not want to look like someone who was sculpted in a gym, like a bodybuilder. My Tarzan had to be a result of evolution, his muscles had to be functional, not decorative. Every muscle, every fiber should fulfill a function in order to survive in the jungle. He is the epitome of survival of the fittest. Tarzan is an animal, and his physique is built for efficiency and not for flaunting pecs and abs at the beach. If you have big muscles that you don't need, it costs energy."
* "In the scene where I first take my shirt off and show my torso, the director and I wanted the audience to gasp on seeing Tarzan's scars and wounds from his years in the jungle. We wanted the audience to think, 'Fuuuck. He has lived a really hard life and has fought many deadly battles' rather than count the number of bulges in my eight-pack."
* "I grew up in a very secular society. I have atheist parents. My morality never came from religion or from scripture, but that doesn't mean I can't have the same values or ethics."
Legend of Tarzan Photo Gallery by DJ Howell
https://www.erbzine.com/mag60/6025.html
https://www.erbzine.com/mag60/6026.html
"The Legendary Tarzan" movie plot in poetry:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5862.html
"The Legendary Tarzan" Review and Photos
http://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5813.html
Legend of the Beasts of Tarzan by John Martin
http://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5861.html
Skarsgård and Robbie Press Conference Interview in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjAKK6MmKek
https://www.ERBzine.com/cards/film9/legendoftarzanskarsgard.jpg

Off-Site Reference:
Skarsgard in Wikipedia


*** 1930: Sean Connery was born on this date in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland  to a truck driver and cleaning lady. After completing school, he worked a variety of odd jobs -- milkman, lorry driver, labourer, brick layer, artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder -- even joining the Royal Navy at age 16. He chose an acting career over professional football. During his long acting career he starred in a multitude of popular and award-winning films which are listed in the IMDB site. In 1999, he was voted 'Sexiest Man of the Century' by People Magazine.
    One of Connery’s early roles was that of the greedy outlaw O’Bannion in "Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure" (1959), starring Gordon Scott as the ape man. Connery was the first man to portray James Bond on the big screen, he starred in seven films.  Despite being strongly identified with the iconic role, he defied typecasting and continued a highly successful, even more decorated career afterward, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for “The Untouchables” (1987), three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Henrietta Award), two BAFTAs, and a host of additional awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
    Sir Sean Connery was paid five thousand six hundred dollars for his role in this movie. When asked to play in the next Tarzan movie, he said he couldn't because "two fellows took an option on me for some spy picture and are exercising it. But I'll be in your next." The "spy picture" was Dr. No (1962), the first of his numerous appearances as James Bond 007. Producer Sy Weintraub also wanted Sir Anthony Quayle to come back for another Tarzan movie, but Quayle had been offered a part in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) after having been seen in this movie, and couldn't accept.
    Connery passed away in his sleep on October 31, 2020, at his home in Nassau, The Bahamas, after a long illness, survived by his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, and his son Jason Connery, by his first wife, the late Australian actress Diane Cilento
TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE
https://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1957.html
GREATEST ADVENTURE LOBBY DISPLAY
https://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1957a.html
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/film4/seanconnerytarzanadventureall.jpg

Off-Site Reference:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053334/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000125/



*** 1937: In his letter to Joan Ed relayed Florence's invitation for Joan to come for dinner and a swim next Tuesday. "The telephone number is CRestview 1-9145." (Through the years Joan had refused to speak to Florence).
ERB Letter to Daughter Joan
http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1049.html
*** 1949: Cave Girl was released in Dell Paperback
Cave Girl: Art ~ History ~ Editions, etc.
http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0755.html


AUGUST 26

John Carter Battles a Thark: Larry Ivie art ~ Some of the hundreds of Thark interpretations
ERB and his library of over 1,000 books: Tarzana & Malibu ~ Soldier of Fortune Gen. Lee Christmas


*** 1922: With a lot of fiction already under his belt, ERB in the year 1922 began to toy with the idea of writing about a real-life adventurer, General Lee Christmas. Christmas had been a train engineer in Louisiana. He missed a signal, causing a train wreck, and lost his job. So, he began his second career as a soldier of fortune in Central America, leading troops in campaigns in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. One of the books on ERB's shelf, "Soldiers of Fortune" by Richard Harding Davis, was a fictionalized account of Christmas's adventures, and it was likely this account that gave ERB the idea for writing a series of real-life adventures of the man by traveling to Guatemala to meet him. ERB tried to get a guarantee from a publisher that they would buy the articles, in order to make it worth his while to finance the trip. But on this date, Aug. 26, 1922, he received a letter from his literary agent saying, "We have interested the Saturday Evening Post in your work, but they are not willing to make any definite promises until the manuscript is completed." (Porges, Chapter 17) Ed abandoned the necessary research trip to Guatemala when he could not obtain a guaranteed sale. He decided to stick with what worked before, and went back to writing fiction.
ERB Perpetual Calendar for August
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0568.html
*** 1923: Bill Hillman: My ERBzine series on ERB's Personal Library of 1,100 books
contains a web page showing some of the books on ERB's D1 shelf which includes books by Davis plus commentary. I've included a newspaper clipping (no date) wit headlines: "Gen. Lee Christmas Loses Last Battle. Was Hero of Davis's "Soldiers of Fortune". It also states that Christmas was the original of the character, Clay, hero of Richard Harding Davis's novel, Soldiers of Fortune", and he and the novelist were fast friends. His health broke down early in 1923 as a result of the years spent in the tropical jungles.
    This ongoing ERB Personal Library Project has taken countless hours to research and compile. Most of the titles were supplied by Danton Burroughs from his personal family archive with added titles from George McWhorter - the founder and longtime curator of the McWhorter Memorial ERB Library at the University of Louisville. For of the titles they provided I research and displayed cover and interior art, personal inscriptions, publishing date and information, author biographies and photos, links to e-Texts on the Web or in ERBzine, trivia, etc. The project is constantly updated and is spread across over 100 interlinked ERBzine Webpages.
Richard Harding Davis in ERB's Library
http://www.erbzine.com/dan/d1.html
ERB Personal Library Project
http://www.ERBzine.com/dan
ERB's Library Collage
http://www.erbzine.com/dan/danall.jpg

Off-Site References
Lee Christmas Career
General Lee Christmas



*** 2012: How should a Thark look? There's only one answer, and Michael Sellers rounded up the most relevant data from ERB himself and presented it in a post to The John Carter Files on Aug. 26, 2012. Sellers was referring to a Tars Tarkas sculpture by MonsterCaesar (Andrew Martin).
    ERBzine: Since ERB's first novel -- A Princess of Mars -- appeared there have been countless artistic interpretations of Barsoomian Tharks and Tars Tarkas. Although most are amusing, it is obvious that some of these images are not based upon the Green Men that ERB described in his Mars novels. The best description appeared in the first book of the Mars series. The first tharks that John Carter saw and described were recently hatched young ones:
    "They seemed mostly head, with little scrawny bodies, long necks and six legs, or, as I afterward learned, two legs and two arms, with an intermediary pair of limbs which could be used at will either as arms or legs. Their eyes were set at the extreme sides of their heads a trifle above the center and protruded in such a manner that they could be directed either forward or back and also independently of each other, thus permitting this queer animal to look in any direction, or in two directions at once, without the necessity of turning the head.
    The ears, which were slightly above the eyes and closer together, were small, cup-shaped antennae, protruding not more than an inch on these young specimens. Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears.
    There was no hair on their bodies, which were of a very light yellowish-green color. In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. Further, the heads of the adults are not so out of proportion to their bodies as in the case of the young.
    The iris of the eyes is blood red, as in Albinos, while the pupil is dark. The eyeball itself is very white, as are the teeth. These latter add a most ferocious appearance to an otherwise fearsome and terrible countenance, as the lower tusks curve upward to sharp points which end about where the eyes of earthly human beings are located. The whiteness of the teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming of china. Against the dark background of their olive skins their tusks stand out in a most striking manner, making these weapons present a singularly formidable appearance."
    As he eventually met with more full-grown tharks Carter gradually added more details on their appearance and their life style.
     " The man himself (Tars Tarkas), for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. He sat his mount as we sit a horse, grasping the animal’s barrel with his lower limbs, while
the hands of his two right arms held his immense spear low at the side of his mount; his two left arms were outstretched laterally to help preserve his balance, the thing he rode having neither bridle or reins of any description for guidance."
    "While the Martians are immense, their bones are very large and they are muscled only in proportion to the gravitation which they must overcome. The result is that they are infinitely less agile and less powerful, in proportion to their weight, than an Earth man, and I doubt that were one of them suddenly to be transported to Earth he could lift his own weight from the ground; in fact, I am convinced that he could not do so."
    "He was the one whose spear had so nearly transfixed me, and was evidently the leader of the band, as I had noted that they seemed to have moved to their present position at his direction. When his force  had come to a halt he dismounted, threw down his spear and small arms, and came around the end of the incubator toward me, entirely unarmed and as naked as I, except for the ornaments strapped upon his head, limbs, and breast."
    Keeping this description in mind you will find it interesting to peruse the hundreds of artistic renderings of Tharks that I have compiled in the following galleries starting at: ERBzine 1390
8 Galleries of Thark Images in ERBzine
100s of Tharks compiled back in 2010 starting at:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1390.html
Tharks in Space by Den Valdron
http://www.erbzine.com/mag15/1510.html
Thark Collage I
http://www.erbzine.com/cards/art/tharksall.jpg
Thark Collage II
http://www.ERBzine.com/cards/art/tharks2all.jpg

Off-Site References
MonsterCaesarThark in johncarterfiles
http://monstercaesar.com/tars-tarkas.html



*** 1941: In Ed's letter home to Joan he was thrilled that Hulbert was coming to visit. "I don't think the doctor has been graduated yet who can kill me.   Many of them have tried.  Somewere experts.   Anyway, I haven't been in a hospital since August 10th.   You should have seen my Korean nurse!" . . . "So Mike went to Mexico!  Do you remember your first trip there? You were xxx five, Hulbert was four, and Jack wasn't one."
ERB Letters from Hawaii
http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1022.html


AUGUST 27

Masters of Imagination - ERB, Erskine & Siegel ~ meet in Hawaii ~ Tarzan Day Declared in Louisiana Capitol
Hillmans chat with Eve Brent ~ JCB's John Carter Strip ~ ERB predicts that his creations will live forever



Debut John Carter of Mars Sunday page by John Coleman Burroughs
*** 1944: It didn't make the newspaper until Sept. 1, but Aug. 27, 1944, was the day that ERB, Laurie York Erskine and Jerry Siegel got together for a brainstorming session. Erskine created the character of Renfrew of the Mounties, who was featured in several novels, and Siegel, along with Joe Schuster, brought Superman from Krypton to Planet Earth.
The article noted, "It is sad to have to disillusion those Jap spies, but the meeting of these three masters of stupendously powerful characters didn't signify anything at all....Their creators just wanted to meet each other." See the story in its original newspaper format in ERBzine.
Tarzan (ERB) Meets Refrew (Erskine) and Superman (Siegel)
http://www.erbzine.com/mag31/3199.html
ERB's WWII Autographs from Erskine and Siegel
http://www.erbzine.com/mag27/2794.html
*** 1949: ERB fans sometimes ponder the future of ERB's books. Will they continue to be published (and sell)? Will young people discover ERB and become a new generation of fans? Will movies, such as Disney's "Tarzan," Constantin's "Tarzan," Disney's "John Carter" and WB's "Legend of Tarzan" result ultimately in a new wave of ERBmania? Some fans are optimistic while others don't offer much hope.

But what did ERB himself think?
Just over a year before his death, in an Aug. 27, 1949, newspaper interview, Edgar Rice Burroughs predicted a great future for his No. 1 creation, Tarzan. "A new group of fans comes of age every year," he said. "The kind of adventures Tarzan has are timeless." Nearly 70 years after his death, ERB is right that Tarzan has remained a well-known and popular character throughout the years. Will ERB continue to be right for another 70 years? That interview, headlined "Tarzan to live on years after Burroughs," along with other stories, can be found in ERBzine 1757.
Tarzan to live on years after Burroughs
http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1757.html#tarzantoliveon
*** 2011: Eve Brent
(Born Jean Ann Ewers in Huston, TX in 1929.09.11 - Died on 2011.08.27 Sun Valley, CA), one of the guests at the Tarzana ECOF 2002, and Gordon Scott's Jane in two movies, passed away on this date. She became the twelfth actress to play Jane when she appeared opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in the film Tarzan's Fight for Life, (1958). She also played the role in Tarzan and the Trappers 1958, three episodes filmed as a pilot for a proposed Tarzan television series.
    Sue-On and I enjoyed our visit and chat with Ms Brent at the Tarzana 2002 ECOF where she was a guest. She was a very charming lady who shared many behind the scenes memories of her Tarzan film experiences.
Eve Brent, Prolific Character Actress, Dies at 82
http://www.erbzine.com/mag36/3609.html
Tarzan's Fight For Life: Starring Gordon Scott and Eve Brent
http://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1955.html
Tarzan and the Trappers
http://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1956.html
Tarzana ECOF 2002: Eve Brent Guest
http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0965.html

Off-Site Reference:
Eve Brent in Wikpedia


*** 1912: Celebrating TARZAN DAY! According to most sources August 27 is the day the October 1912 "All-Story" magazine, with the first appearance of Tarzan, hit newsstands. For this reason many fans and ERB, Inc. in Tarzana celebrate August 27th as Tarzan Day.
    An early Official Tarzan Day was actually declared by the State of Louisiana in conjunction with the 2012 Tarzan Centennial Celebrations in Morgan City, Louisiana. This was the location of the filming of much of the first Tarzan film of 1918. This gala event was hosted by filmmaker Al Bohl who had previously done a documentary on this Tarzan filming.
    The highlight of this major event was a special session of the House of Representatives in the Louisiana State Capitol. Governor Bobby Jindal proclaimed April 13th as Tarzan Day in Louisiana. Governor Jindal presented Official Proclamation Documents to Al Bohl, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and the Burroughs Family represented by ERB's granddaughters, Llana Jane and Dejah Burroughs.
    Sue-On and I were invited to this event and it was a fascinating session to be a part of. We've witnessed a number of government events back in Canada, but this was the first one we've attended in the US. It was a very special day in the legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan Day Declared at the Louisiana State Capitol
https://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3590.html
Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle 2012 Festival ~ Morgan City, LA
https://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3588.html
Collage of the Louisiana Tarzan Day Events
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/erb3/tarzandaydeclaredall.jpg

Off-Site Reference
World National Holidays


*** 1898: Pocatella newspaper reported that stationer ERB spent a few days in Salt Lake on business and "You can rent a camera the by the day or week at E.R. Burroughs" and ERB is "...circulating some elegant advertisements for the Junius Brutus cigars...."
The Burroughs / Idaho Connection
http://www.ERBzine.com/idaho
*** 1928: Ed bought a glass bead movie screen from the Arrow company to replace the wrinkled bedsheet he had been using and they view two films that Hully has sent from Chicago. Emma and Hully have been visiting friends and family. Ed is excited about the new Eastman color film that has come on the market.

ERB Bio Timeline: The '20s Decade
http://www.erbzine.com/bio/years20.html
*** 1941: On this date,
Ed wrote to son Jack that he was delighted to hear of Carlin's reaction to his John Carter Sunday page. He felt that Jack would at last come into better money and recognition and be freed from the menial work he'd been saddled with.
    John Coleman Burroughs created 73 Tarzan Sunday pages (1941-1943). The series had the misfortune to debut on Pearl Harbor Sunday Dec. 7, 1941. Paper shortages and the war effort hampered the strips distribution, readership and success but it ran for 73 weeks.
    All of these strips are reprinted in ERBzine in both thumbnail and full size along with plot summary texts and an expanded 86,500-word novel adaptation by Dale R. Broadhurst.
JCB's 73 John Carter Sunday Pages
http://www.erbzine.com/mag22/2288.html


AUGUST 28 

Tarzans and Janes Reunions: Mahoney, Weissmuller, Crabbe, Pierce, Ely, Miller ~ Brent, MacKenzie, Lorraine
All-Story's suggested changes to ERB ~ ERB/Boy Scout Connection ~ Jack Kirby

*** 1923: Edgar Rice Burroughs spent a lot of time in his office over the years, but he could never be labeled a mere "desk jockey." ERB was active in many ways and passed on his enthusiasm to his growing family. Extended camping trips and horseback riding, as well as other outdoor activities, were a staple of the Burroughs family life.
So, long before there was such a thing as the Boy Scouts of America in Southern California, ERB was teaching his own children a scouting lifestyle, and the heroes of his books would all have made excellent Boy and Girl Scouts.
On this date, Aug. 28, in 1923, the first of a three-part series, written by ERB, was published in the Van Nuys News, under the title of "The Origin and History of the Boy Scouts of America," and tracing the movement's spread to America. It had reached the San Fernando Valley several months early, thanks largely to the efforts of the Kiwanis Club, and ERB wrote the articles to promote further funding through contributions from the public. The article can be read at in ERBzine 1795 with added illustrations by Bill Hillman. The text was published later in pulpvillepress.com.
ERB / Boy Scouts Connection
http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1795.html

Off-Site References
PulpvillePress


*** 1911: An exchange of letters between budding author Edgar Rice Burroughs and Thomas Metcalf, editor of The All-Story, included on dated Aug. 28, 1911, in which Metcalf made suggestions for ERB's inaugural story on Mars, including Metcalf's idea to have Dejah Thoris contract a fatal disease near the end of the book and then John Carter, grief-stricken, return to Earth to die. All of which goes to show that editors do not know everything!
ERB / All-Story Letters Re: A Princess of Mars
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/2832.html
Read the letter in full size
http://www.erbzine.com/mag28/b110828.jpg
*** 1975: On this date, four former Tarzans gathered for the opening of the North American Science Fiction Convention to honor the 100th anniversary of the birthdate of creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Standing in the back row from left to right are Jock Mahoney, the new Jane is "Sasha,"(Anyone know anything about "Sasha"?) Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, and Jim Pierce. The Janes in the front row are, from left, Eve Brent, Joyce Mackenzie, and Louise Lorraine.

ERBzine Eclectica with Old Tarzans Collage
http://www.erbzine.com/mag62/6262.html
http://www.erbzine.com/mag62/tarzanreunion.jpg
James Pierce Career Photos
http://www.erbzine.com/mag27/2743.html
*** 1917: On this date Jack Kirby(born Jacob Kurtzberg 1917.08.28-1994.02.06) was born in born in New York City. Kirby was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

Kirby's Sky Masters work with Wallace Wood
http://www.erbzine.com/mag50/5001.html
*** 1928: ERB sent an autographed letter to Thomas Price, Chicago.

ERB Letter
http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0441.html

*** 1928: Emma and Hulbert end their Chicago visit and leave for home with Jim and Joan
*** 1940: The family moved to 2623 Halelena in Honolulu and a week later, Ed moved into an office at 1298 Kapiolani Boulevard. He was at the office from nine to four, preferring to keep his work separate from his homelife.
1298 Kapiolani Boulevard Today
http://www.erbzine.com/mag15/wj0543h4.jpg


AUGUST 29

Kamuela C. Searle as Korak in Son of Tarzan ~ Searle's "near death" elephant accident
Hillmans Celebrate Wedding Anniversary 1966 ~ ERB and Bill at Coldwater ~ ERB's Auto Adventure


*** 1966: The Hillman Adventure started on this day in 1966 when Sue-On and I were married. This was the start of our long journey together in which we went on to create this ERBzine site along with over a dozen ERB-related Websites and many thousands of Webpages. Ever since that special day we have celebrated the event by pursuing "bucket-list" types of adventures -- a great many of them inspired by the imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs. This thirst for adventure has led to an amazing number of unexpected interests, the meeting of so many fascinating people, and has taken us to countless far-off locales around North America, Europe and Asia. Although we have yet to visit African jungles we have hiked through similar jungles in many other places: South East Asia, Sumatra, Java, Malaysia, India, China, etc. and thoughts of ERB's wild jungle tales were never far from our mind. We've explored a great many of the places that ERB visited and wrote about and many of these exploits we've shared on the Web in our Travel pages. One example is the
HILLMANS IN SEARCH OF THE JUNGLE GIRL AND ANGKOR WAT
Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Girl
27 Unique Modes of Travel across 2700 Kilometres for over 27 days
https://www.erbzine.com/mag56/5699.html
http://www.ERBzine.com
http://www.hillmanweb.com
http://www.hillmanweb.com/book/travel
*** 1890: Kamuela C. "Sammy" Searle
(1890.08.29-1924.02.14) was born this date in Kauai, Hawaii. There is no debate about his birth -- only about his death. Searle played the grown Korak in the only movie, so far, (actually, a 15-chapter serial) about "The Son of Tarzan." Former daring stuntman Kamuela Searle carried the bulk of the picture as Tarzan's son, Jack Clayton, aka Korak the Killer.
    A scene that is a favorite of illustrators of the ERB book is when Korak is rescued by Tantor, who wraps his trunk around a pole, on which the young man is tied, and carries both off into the jungle.
When that scene was filmed for the movie, things went wrong. The elephant panicked and carried the actor further than it was supposed to, eventually slamming its burden down so hard that it caused grave injuries to Searle, who died shortly thereafter. That's one version, and it is reported as such by both Gabe Essoe, in "Tarzan of the Movies," and David Fury, in "Kings of the Jungle."
    However, some sources have a different version.  For years this false rumor persisted that he died shortly after the film was completed from injuries received during the filming. In 1921 Searle gave up acting to become a sculptor and painter. His career as an artist was cut short by disease.
    A letter from Searle's brother appeared in "The Burroughs Bulletin," stating that though badly injured, Kamuela recovered, but died in 1924 of cancer.  Scott Tracy Griffin goes with the more accurate version in his 2016 book, "Tarzan on Film." Writes Tracy on page 020, "Kamuela Searle was injured by an elephant when it dropped a tree trunk to which he was tied; according to Burroughs, the tree trunk broke and Searle was hospitalized, but he did not die from his injuries as was later reported." One thing is for certain, the serial had a large box office, particularly leading up to the " death scene." but no one would accuse Hollywood of making up the story just to pull in a few extra bucks
    Burroughs was so pleased with Searle's work in the film that he presented him with a personally autographed copy of the book, "The Son of Tarzan."
Searle was reported to have engaged in deadly combat with practically every animal in National's "Tarzan Zoo."
    ERB's November 28, 1921 response to a report that box office receipts had dropped off in Britain: "I am sorry to hear that the Son of Tarzan has not proven successful in England. I fully agree with you that there have been too many Tarzan pictures on the market, and especially have the serials been harmful. If I had had the experience that I have now, I should never have permitted one of my stories to be put in serial form; but what is done is done."
    Searle died of cancer at the age of 33 in Los Angeles. In addition to the serial, Son of Tarzan (1920), his movie credits include The Island of Desire (1917), Male and Female (1919), The Sea Wolf (1920), and Fools Paradise (1921).
The Son of Tarzan: ERBzine Info on the Searle Accident
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0589.html
Scott Tracy Griffin's Version of Searle's Injury
http://www.erbzine.com/mag63/6309.html#searle

Off-Site References
Sale of Searle photo and the controversy
Searle Death Theory and Update
Searle in IMDB


TARZAN STRIPS IN ERBzine
*** 1976: "Tarzan and the White Farmers," written and illustrated by Russ Manning, began in Sunday newspapers on Aug. 29, 1976 and ran to Dec. 6, 1976.
Tarzan and the White Farmers: Read all 18 Russ Manning Episodes:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2134.html
*** 1982: "Space War," written and illustrated by Mike Grell, began in Sunday newspapers Aug. 29, 1982.

Space War: Read all 12 of Mike Grell's Sunday Pages
http://www.erbzine.com/mag29/2973.html
*** 1896: After being hospitalized for two weeks and still suffering from dysentery and having been diagnosed with a "tobacco heart" condition (heart murmur or arrythymia), Ed Burroughs rode out with Troop B in pursuit of the Apache Kid and other renegade Apaches.  Ed, disillusioned with the life of an enlisted man at Fort Grant, started sending letters imploring his father to help him buy his way out of the service. Worried about the hardship she is going through, his mother secretly sends him food and money

ERB's US Cavalry Adventures in Arizona - Starting at:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag34/3469.html
ERB Arizona Days
http://www.ERBzine.com/arizona
*** 1916: Camp #24 on the Burroughs Cross-Country Adventure: Camp Coyote

Burroughs' Auto Caravan Trip Across America
http://www.erbzine.com/mag60/6020.html
Diary of an Automobile Camping Tour
http://www.erbzine.com/mag60/6021.html
*** 1927 Aug. 28: In commemoration of their 1916 cross-country trip, the family travelled to the Grand Canyon North Rim. His 52nd birthday was spent in Arizona, as were his 21st and his 50th: The article Eleven Year Itch was written to describe the event.

An Auto-Biography
http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0030.html
Lost Words of ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag2/0219.html
*** 1939: ERB, who was highly critical of the plans to eliminate Jane in Tarzan Finds a Son, wrote producer Zimbalist voicing approval for the job he had  done

Tarzan Finds A Son
http://www.erbzine.com/mag6/0620.html

AUGUST 30

Convention shot of ERB, Inc. Staff: Tyler Wilbanks, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos (Pres.), Scott Tracy Griffin
MISSING: Back at the Tarzana Office: Willie Jones and Janet Mann ~ Dum-Dum and ECOF Logos through the years
Frazetta Dum-Dum art ~ Convention Pinbacks ~ Sellers' Carter & Gods of Hollywood book
Compilations of Foster's B/W Tarzan strips ~ Jacqueline Wells and Buster Crabbe





*** DUM-DUM and ECOF Conventions:  The history of Edgar Rice Burroughs and ERB fandom has gone through various stages since ERB wrote his first published story in 1912.
There was the era in which ERB himself was alive and still writing and being published, and that time itself could be divided into a few phases. But instead we move next into the biggest lull, the 12 years that elapsed form the time ERB died (1950) to the time when the Burroughs boom struck in the early 60s.
*** 2013: Michael Sellers, on his website, The John Carter files, announced on Aug. 30, 2013, that he was going to revisit that era as part of his research for his book, "John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood." In making that announcement, Sellers linked to an erblist.com article, written by Michael Resnick, which had also revisited that era. Resnick tells part of the history of the Dum Dum gatherings of ERB fans, particularly how the Dum Dums broke away from being one of many meetings during the WorldCon to being an entity all of its own. And at the time that Resnick wrote the article, the Dum Dums were going strong, and there was no such things as an ECOF (Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship) gathering.
    In 1990, the Dum Dums finally got going again, thanks to George T. McWhorter, lifelong ERB fan and curator of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Collection at the Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville. Dum-Dums and ECOFs teem with fans today, unlike the Dum-Dum that wasn't back in 1989, when only four people showed up. Bill Ross recalls: "There were no official Dum-Dums from 1984 through 1989. The supposed Atlanta Dum-Dum in 1986 was actually something 4E (Forrest J. Ackerman) threw together to raise money for Vern. There was no banquet or meeting. 1983 was the last Vern-organized Dum-Dum." There were a couple of other "Dum Dums" in the non-Dum Dum era but they were usually nothing more than a panel discussion and meetup of a few fans. It wasn't until 1990 when, thanks to George McWhorter, that the Dum-Dum returned to its former glory.
    Sue-On and I have attended most of the annual Dum-Dums since 1999 as well as many of the ECOFs. The events have taken place at interesting choices of locations across the 48 States south of our Canadian home. The drives to these places provide us with a great opportunity to revisit places that we've explored during our +50 years of travel adventures. We've tried to document most of these ERB get-togethers with text and photo memories. We've also put together reports on events previous to 1999 from information shared by many of our readers. We've always looked forward to reuniting with long-time fellow ERB fans and meeting many others for the first time.
History of the Dum-Dums:
http://www.burroughsbibliophiles.com/dumdum.html
Details, photos of past Dum-Dums and ECOFs:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0839.html
ERBzine's Dum-Dum Dossier
http://www.erbzine.com/dumdum
McWhorter's History of the Burroughs Bibliophiles
http://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0148.html
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/cons/dumdumsall.jpg

*** 2012: THE BURROUGHS BOOM IS BACK: The ERB and ERB fan eras continue. Mike Resnick noted that with the fading of the excitement of the Burroughs boom, and indeed -- other than the annual ECOFs and Dum Dums -- there was an era in the last couple of decades of the 20th Century when publishing was pretty much limited to new paperbacks; Tarzan movies were few. “Greystoke” and "Lost City" were about it. And Disney's Tarzan reached out to a younger audience. But we're in the era now of bigger and brighter things. ERB's Mars got onto the big screen in 2012 with "John Carter (of Mars)" and it was a major event. We flew down from Canada to attend a special pre-release showing on the Disney lot -- a real thrill since I've waiting almost a lifetime for such a release. "The Legend of Tarzan," another big screen event, followed just four years later.
Jim Sullos, president of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., along with members of the ERB Inc. staff, regularly show up at the ERB gatherings with tables full of ERB goodies for sale and Jim gives reports on the spread of ERB mania in multiple venues.
    The ERB Inc. website features brand new comic versions of traditional ERB stories, as well as new stories involving ERB characters, and the company has launched a line of "Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs" featuring works by various authors, as well as giving its blessing to some other ERB stories not in the "Wild Adventures" series per se.
    Perhaps the most stunning news of all is, ERB Inc.'s announcement that it planned to reprint about 80 ERB stories in colorful new volumes with amazing Joe Jusko covers. Previous to this, ERB, Inc. had authorized South Africa to reprint the full line of Tarzan novels as a matched set in Afrikaans using previous Joe Jusko art.
    The train is on the tracks and under full steam. Thanks to all who have made it possible: ERB Inc. itself and the loyal fans. A history of Burroughs Bibliophiles publications, followed by histories of the ECOF and Dum-Dum is featured at:
Dum-Dum and ECOF Highlights
https://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0196.html
The Authorized ERB Collection from ERB, Inc.
A matched set with magnificent cover art by Joe Jusko
https://edgarriceburroughs.com/store/product-category/print-books/authorized-library/
ERB, Inc. Authorized Tarzan Editions with Joe Jusko Covers
https://www.erbzine.com/cards/biblio2/tarzans1-4erbeditions.jpg
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ERB Still Lives!: Books authorized by ERB, Inc.
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Fabulous Covers by Joe Jusko for 24 South African Editions
https://www.erbzine.com/mag64/6475.html
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Off-Site References
Sellers' JohnCarterFiles: Dum-Dum Origin
Resnick article in erblist



DRUMS IN THE JUNGLE
By John Martin

One can allow that it'd be somewhat humdrum
If ever a year passed without a new Dum-Dum,
But such was the case as the 80s wore on;
ECOFs ascended, but Dum-Dums were gone.

The first full-bore ECOF was in 84,
And in that same year, Dum-Dums were no more;
Thus it continued for several more summers,
The ECOF was thriving, but where were Dum-Dummers?

A cold winter day back in ol' '87
Saw Vern Coriell at the Dum-Dum in Heaven;
Without that true stalwart of Bibliophile fame,
Could Dum-Dums return? Or was that hope lame?

But out of the South riding tall in the saddle
Came a man who was ready to take on the battle;
He said, "What? No Dum-Dums? Wal, listen ol' Pard,
"I'm going to have one here in my backyard."

This gent bore the handle of George T. McWhorter,
Who put on a Dum-Dum that was a rip-snorter.
And since then the Dum-Dums take place every year,
Along with those ECOFs, which many hold dear.

So take a red marker that sparkles real pretty
And circle the calendar on August 30.
'Twas in 1990 George T., on that date,
Rescued the Dum-Dum from worse-than-death fate.

Now once every annum an ECOF holds sway,
And elsewhere a Dum-Dum is having its day.
Some fans go to one, and some to the other;
But some go to both, 'cause that's what they'd druther.


*** 1933: Jacqueline Wells (1914.08.30-2001.08.30), American film and television actress born in Denver, CO, died on this date in Mendocino, CA. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1957 included her role of Mary Brooks in 1933's "Tarzan the Fearless" with Buster Crabbe. She often mentioned that ERB was a friend.
    After working in over 60 B movies Warner Brothers requested that she change her name to something shorter and to disassociate her from the over 60 B movies she had made up to that date. She chose the name Julie Bishop, and is probably better known by film fans by that name.  Bishop had a son, Steve, a physician and pilot, and a daughter, actress Pamela Susan Shoop, both by her second marriage, Gen. Clarence A. Shoop, a test pilot who flew for Howard Hughes and later became vice president of Hughes Aircraft; they were married from 1944 until his death in 1968.
Jacqueline Wells and Tarzan the Fearless
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0595b.html
Tarzan the Fearless Coverage in 8 Webpages
http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0595.html
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*** 1916:  Camp #25 Hutchinson during the Burroughs Family Automobile Adventure.

*** 1929: Illustrated Tarzan Book No. 1 was published by Grosset & Dunlap. Ed was very happy with Harold Foster's work
Illustrated Tarzan Book No. 1
http://www.erbzine.com/mag16/1602.html
*** 1937: Ed writes in his letter to Joan. "I am so sorry that you can't come Wednesday, and I know that Florence will be when I tell her. I can understand, though, how difficult it is for you to get away and leave the children."

ERB's Letter to Joan
http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1049.html


AUGUST 31

Captain Ed Burroughs Commanding A Co. Reserves ~ ERB & Caligula on Burroughs 1967 Edition DJ of
ERB's 1941-written book ~ Jeff Jones Art ~ Japanese Art ~ WWI fund raising posters

*** 12 AD: From Germanicus to Geronimo, ERB sometimes exercised his writing muscles by turning out a piece of historical fiction. Back in 12 A.D., Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born on this date, Aug. 31. When he got old enough to toddle around in footwear, he showed a preference for Army gear, which earned him the nickname of "Little Boots," rendered in Latin as "Caligula."
Brittanicus, ERB's character, was a boy when he became slave and companion to Caligula, and he is the narrator of ERB's "I Am A Barbarian," a novel which did not see print until 17 years after ERB's death.
    Fans and admirers of Edgar Rice Burroughs who have yet to experience I Am a Barbarian should seek it out. Despite the novel’s flaws it will remind readers that the man from Tarzana was a far more talented and varied writer than his critics—and some of his fans—ever imagined.  The action passages, which include a deadly chariot race, a battle in the Coliseum with a tiger, and a tense near-crucifixion, are very exciting. But the book’s effectiveness stems from Burroughs’s readable style and the fun he has with the sarcastic commentary on Roman decadence.
    I Am A Barbarian is one of the over 20 online comics from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. They offer splendid serial adaptations of ERB novels adapted by top writers and artists. Read them all every week for only $1.99 per month from:www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics
I Am A Barbarian: Art ~ History ~ Summary ~ Reviews ~ Comics
http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0863.html
Barbarian Summary and Review by David Adams
http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0428.html
Collage of Barbarian Art
http://www.erbzine.com/cards/biblio/barbarianall.jpg

Off-Site Reference
Barbarian Summary
Martin Review


*** 1918: The Army-Navy Journal of Aug. 31, 1918, carried an article by Edgar Rice Burroughs who many, by that time, may have known was the author of a book about a new character, “Tarzan of the Apes.” The article was titled “A Victory Loan: An Appeal to Our Business Sense.” ERB, ever the patriot, gave some patriotic reasons why people ought to help the government, as it needed the cash “or it would not ask us for it.” But beyond that, ERB also thought it was a sensible thing to do, business-wise: “On the other hand, there is in the Victory loan an appeal to our business sense as well as to our patriotism. There is the appeal to self-interest, for the loan is not to be without profit to us. We are given an opportunity to invest in an absolutely safe security, and we will receive a good rate of interest. As a business proposition no man can afford not to subscribe to the full limit of his ability.” The Victory Loan program was around only briefly and was a fund-raiser to pay for funding of World War I, which was nearing an end. It was similar to programs in the U.S. and other countries that were called Victory Bonds or Liberty Bonds. In World War II the U.S. used the term “War Bonds.” while Canada still used the "Victory Bonds" term.
"A Victory Loan" in Army-Navy Journal by ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag16/1683.html#victoryloan
Wartime Victory Bonds
http://www.hillmanweb.com/war/2017/1707.html
Victory Bonds Collage
http://www.hillmanweb.com/war/2017/victorybondsall.jpg
The ERB / German Incident
http://www.erbzine.com/mag32/3294.html
German Controversy Collage
http://www.erbzine.com/cards/erb/erbww1all.jpg

Off-Site Reference
Victory Loans in US


*** 1931: A Place To Play In: "That's what a garden is for," says Edgar Rice Burroughs, famous author ~ Better Homes & Gardens - Margaret McOmie ~ August 1931
A Place To Play In article with ERB
http://www.erbzine.com/mag16/1683.html#garden
*** 1918:  "A National Reserve Army Proposal" in ERB's letter to the Army-Navy Journal.

ERB Proposal for a National Reserve Army 1918
http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0031.html#proposal
*** ERB BIO TIMELINE NOTES:

1866: George Tyler, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine to George and Mary Burroughs.
1916: Camp #26  Mouse on the Cross-Country Auto Adventure
1928:  Ed and Jack spend labor day weekend at Catalina.
1932: Editor of Modern Screen requested a story along the theme of If Tarzan Came to Hollywood which may have been the inspiration for Tarzan and the Lion Man
1939: The family moves to luxurious 716 North Rexford Drive (rent $300 per month) to make Florence's recuperation more pleasant.  After eight months, however, the cost of maintaining two establishments (Emma's home in Bel-Air), high spending, and the loss of income resulting from the war in Europe will force a move to Hawaii.
ERB Bio Timeline of Events
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