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Volume 0834
ERB C.H.A.S.E.R. ENCYCLOPEDIA
ERB Artists and Comics Sections
Presents
RUSS MANNING TRIBUTE V
From the Ken Webber Collection

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
YEAR BY YEAR '60s - '80s

THE SIXTIES
Russ the Work-At-Home Family Man
Read the full article in ERBzine 0837


 
A Friend Remembers . . .

I was born and raised in Modjeska Canyon and not only had a chance to know the Mannings, but while playing with Roger and Melissa, use to watch their dad, Russ, draw the Tarzan cartoons.  I would watch through the glass window in his studio, or sometimes he would tell me to come in and watch . . . if I wanted to.

He was a great man and the family was close with my family.  The canyons were a great place to grow up and the Mannings were very close friends of ours.  I saw Roger about a year ago and after catching up on what we had going on in our lives and as we parted ways, I told him that I will always remember watching his dad do the magic that he did on his drawing board.

I will never, ever forget that for as long as I live.

John Howard

1963: Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 A.D., Magnus #1 (Feb. 1963)  ~ First 21 Issues

Issue 8 ~ Page 6volume 8 ~ Page 7Volume 8 ~ Page 27
Volume 9 ~ Page 1Volume 9 ~ Page 2Volume 9 ~ Page 3Issue 20 - page 2
Original Art ~ From the Gregg Hazen Collection
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1963: Dell hired him for Korak, Son of Tarzan with script writer, Gaylord DuBois
Gold Key Korak #1
1965:Tarzan for Gold Key Comics ~ Adapted first 10 novels ~ Jesse Marsh's successor
Tarzan 154: Manning's first Gold KeyFeb. 1954: Manning article in praise of Jesse Marsh
The Gold Key covers are displayed here
1967-72 Tarzan Daily Strip
1967-1979 Tarzan Sunday Pages


Many of the Russ Manning Tarzan Sunday Pages are featured at the
Danton Burroughs and John Coleman Burroughs Tarzana Archive Site:
1. Tarzan Returns to the Land of the Ant Men
2. Tarzan and the Return of Dagga Ramba
and mirrored in ERBzine 1760 and ERBzine 1761
1968: Luana promotional strip and movie poster ~ Overseas film company work

THE SEVENTIES
1972: Left the daily Tarzan strip to work on European Tarzan projects
No. 8 ~ July 30, 1977
1979-1980: Star Wars Comic Strip
Classic Star Wars : The Early Adventures by Russ Manning.
Star Wars daily strip
See clipped samples of this art in our mezzanine galleries

THE FINAL YEARS
1980-1981: Russ turned to painting during his two-year battle with Cancer
Russ Manning died at the
Long beach Veteran's Hospital on
December 1, 1981. He was 52.

 
RUSS MANNING TRIBUTE CONTENTS
www.ERBzine.com/manning
INTRO - NAVIGATION GUIDE
COMICS/SUNDAYS/DAILY STRIPS
2. Illustrated Bio & Comics
All Sundays and Daily Tarzans
3. Bibliography
Illustrated 
4. Luana Art
with Fran Frazetta
5. Star Wars
Strips I
6. Star Wars
Strips II
7. Chessmen of Mars
Unreleased Comics Art I
8. John Carter of Mars
Unreleased Comics Art II
9. Russ Manning 
Portfolio Eclectica
10. Career Timeline
Illustrated I
11. Career Timeline II
Illustrated II
12. Career Timeline
Illustrated III
13. Russ Manning 
The Writer
.Brothers of the Spear
Gold Key Tarzan Comics
14. Russ Manning
Speaks
.

Volume 0834

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