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TARZAN OF THE COMICS
A 58,000-Word Review of
The Original Tarzan Comics Series
By Michael Tierney
with cover art and every page of the Dell/Gold Key series
added by Bill Hillman from the ERBzine archive
(click on the covers to read the comics)
Pt. 6: DELL ISSUES Nos. 100 - 115 plus 2 Annuals ~ 1958/1959
Tarzan #100
Jan. 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
 "Tarzan in the Rifle of Tippo Tib" ~ 15 pp.
In the Canyon of Mandrills, young Moki seeks the ancient rifle of Tippo Tib, the Arab explorer who first ruled East Africa. Moki’s father, King of the Badungas, hid Tippo’s rifle before his death and left a rhyme to lead Moki. Tarzan solves the riddle, using smoke from a Manga shrub to clear a path through the savage mandrills.
 This is the third different usage of the word Manga, and still no Japanese comics in sight.

1 pp.
“The Zulu Welcome”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai’s hunting party finally arrives at the Zulu village. After much ceremony, the group is welcomed and given a place to stay.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and Kifaru”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Tarzan and Boy raise an orphaned rhino, until the day Kifaru vents his anger toward Jane ... and is promptly exiled. Kifaru redeems himself when, as Tarzan and Jad-bal-ja are surrounded by Inandi lion hunters, Boy rides the now adult rhino to the rescue.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el leaves Tavane at Tungelu, and races to overtake his army, who have been falsely told that the Brothers are dead.
 Along the way, Dan-el manages to disrupt the plans of a band of Tuaregs who are about to ambush Molithi’s elephant train in a narrow pass. Molithi walking into traps is becoming another DuBois pattern.

Tarzan #101
Feb. 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Warriors of the Staff" ~ 15 pp.
101Tarzan becomes war chief of the Achingas, and conquers all the neighboring warring tribes ... forcibly bringing peace to the mountains.
 When Karungo, former champion of the Achingas, attempts to assassinate Tarzan, he is banished. In classic Teddy Roosevelt fashion, Karungo’s henchmen are warned to “... Remember -- Tarzan carries a big staff!”

1 pp.
“A Zulu Feast”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai’s party is honored with a feast by Zulu Chief Umtosi. Mabu and Kaino aren’t particularly keen about the Zulu custom of keeping their bodies entirely oiled.

9 pp.
“Tarzan Traps a Rogue”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Tarzan goes looking for “Pinky, known throughout Africa as the Traveling Hippo ...” who has disappeared in Tanganyika, and discovers that Pinky turned rogue. He cuts out the bullet that angered the pink-eared beast, but Pinky holds a grudge. Fortunately, the next people to meet the wrath of Pinky are night raiders.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Riding on horses captured from the Tuaregs, Dan-el rejoins his army. With several men, he rides back to Tungelu for Tavane, but runs into yet another ambush by the same Tuaregs. Dan-el takes the swords of the blue-veiled men, and smashes their guns, releasing them on foot. “The Brothers of the Spear do not kill, unless to save life.”
 Yeah ... Good luck walking home! This is a death sentence often meted out by Tarzan.

Tarzan #102
March 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the White Peril" ~ 15 pp.

102 The Paramount Chief, Umboma, had a dream that Tarzan would  stop the albino elephant who’s been killing his best hunters. Still, he readies to sacrifice his daughter to save his people. Tarzan succeeds barely in time, as the young woman is stripped to the waist and about to be beheaded.
 This is the best Marsh artwork in years.

1 pp.
“Taromu Son of Umtosi”
Writer: Uncredited
 Waking early, Mabu and Kaino meet Zulu Chief Umtosi’s son. As Taromu shows the boys where to bathe, they stumble across the Zulu’s “oldest magic ritual.”

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Leopard Cubs”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie adopt what they think are orphaned Leopard cubs. It turns out their mother is alive, and very unhappy. N’Kima, the monkey, warns Tarzan barely in time.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Natongo and Zulena take Tavane hunting, and are captured by the blue-veiled Tuaregs. Always an important component of the action, the white mules Hatima and Alissa escape to find Dan-el, and bring him and his men to the rescue.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 The inside cover spotlights the “Servant of Man. There are no wild camels. Camels exist only in a domesticated state, as the servants of man.”

Tarzan #103
April 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Fall of Cathne" ~ 15 pp.
103 An earthquake opens a chasm inside Cathne, the City of Gold, releasing poisonous gasses that drives out the residents.
 Tarzan unites the survivors with the Gallego buffalo riders, who were once white but are now black, to chase hundreds of Bolgani gorillas out of their new valley home.

1 pp.
The Magic of the Water”
Writer: Uncredited
 The boys watch a warrior spy on a young woman taking a bath. After the woman leaves, the warrior performs a love ritual in the water.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Smoking Cliff”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie are trapped in a hidden lagoon where the Leopard Men are gathered.
 The Leopard Men may wear cool outfits, but once again, they’re made to look foolish. Assaulting the ridge where the boys build an emergency smoke signal to warn Tarzan, the whole vine curtain the Leopard Men are climbing pulls loose from the cliff.
 “YEE-OWW!”

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Riding the mule Alissa, only Tavane escapes an ambush by Galla warriors. Knocked unconscious, Dan-el is left for dead.
 Tavane revives him, and together they rescue their companions by rolling rocks down a slope and creating the impression that an army attacks.

Tarzan #104
May 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Voice of Moumamba" ~ 15 pp.

104 Two oil prospectors go missing in the jungles around the thundering Moumamba falls.
 At Moumamba town, the noise from the falls is so loud, all conversations are made with sign language. Tarzan and the prospectors are told they can never leave, because Mighty Moumamba destroys a man’s sense of direction.

1 pp.
“How Strange the Gods”
Writer: Uncredited
 After watching Zulu baskets being made, Taromu, the chief’s son, is nearly bitten by a viper. Kaino thinks fast, and grabbing a poison arrow from Taromu’s quiver, impales the serpent.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in Flight Into Danger”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie save a downed pilot and his girlfriend from cannibals.
 These cannibals are pretty hungry. They spend most the time shouting, “Meat!” The boys were traveling with the ape Neck, who disappears from the last few pages. Hmmm ...

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el and Tavane reunite with the army, to learn that Aba-zulu has been invaded by Garumba warriors. Splitting his army, Dan-el surrounds the ambushers waiting for him at the mountain pass into Aba-zulu.

Tarzan #105
June 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Eyes of Fire" ~ 15 pp.

105 Tarzan constructs a giant figure that shoots fireworks out of his mouth to save Ruth Wells, the White Flower of the Makembe, her father, and the village from Nandis and Masai war parties.

1 pp.
“Witch Doctor”
Writer: Uncredited
 The boys watch Wazi, the Zulu Witch Doctor, mix a kettle of poison. Mabu thinks Wazi is the ugliest man he’s ever seen. Wazi predicts Mabu will walk a different path than his father, Hamasai.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in the Scourge of the Jungle”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Every seventeen years, a plague of locusts sweeps across Tarzan’s jungle.
 Boy and Dombie are in the swamps, trying to find a rare white tree orchid for Jane, when the locust swarm strikes.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el’s army fights to free the captured town of Sekani.
 On the rock towering over the city, Tavane sits atop her braying white mule and holds a spear aloft in firelight. The invaders panic at the sight of a magic warrior of light.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 The cola lingo ad suggests that to ask your date if she prefers a comedy movie or drive-in thriller, say; “Want to chuckle in your chair in the village square -- or share a scare in the open air?” Say that today, and; you’d sound like a poet, who didn’t know it.

Tarzan’s Jungle Annual #7
1958
Cover: Unknown Artist ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan in War in the Desert" ~ 24 pp.

A desert storm crash lands Tarzan’s plane in an oasis populated by the lost descendants of ancient Phoenicians
 After the city falls to their enemies, Tarzan helps the Amenokal of Tannalelt escape. They return with the Tannalelt army and recapture the city from the Gaddanes.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Great Animal Trainer”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Uncredited
Inks: Uncredited
 Kobo of the Bangala has learned to train zebras.
 While riding a zebra colt that Kobo gifted him, Boy is attacked by a lion. Tarzan rushes to the rescue, but finds Boy safely riding the colt in the midst of a zebra herd.

10 pp.
“Moonbeam and Shadow”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Two African white-tailed Mongooses, one white and one black, are separated by storm waters when Moonbeam is washed away with her four pups. Shadow finds his family in time to save them from a hawk.

16 pp.
“Tarzan and the Axe Man of Jalur”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Gorgan the Greedy has seized the throne of Jalur. To save his lover, Luala, young Kandor intends to use an ancient law to challenge him. Tarzan helps him accomplish his quest to make an axe from the horn of a wooly Rhinoceros and fight Gorgan in single combat.

7 pp.
“Jane and Kimbo’s Machine”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Jane solves several villager’s problems with a shopping trip to Nairobi, where she purchases a weaving loom so that a hunter injured by a lion can make cloth for the village women.

8 pp.
“Boy Braves a Siege by Lions”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Boy and Dombie save a lost tourist boy from a pride of lions. Like Tarzan, they don’t stick around for thanks. They’re already late for home.

8 pp.
“Tarzan -- The Bridge to Life”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Uncredited
Inks: Uncredited
 Because Nogoni wouldn’t kill a friend on Chief Umpongwe’s orders, he and his family are running for their lives.
 Swinging out over the Batumi River Gorge, Tarzan flies to the other side, and strings a temporary rope for the young family to escape into Tarzan’s Territory.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 Like all annuals, there are another 14 activity pages and special features.

Tarzan #106
July 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Prisoners of Castrum Mare" ~ 15 pp.

106 Tarzan and Jad-bal-ja are captured and taken as prisoners to the lost Roman City of Castrum Mare. At first Tarzan isn’t worried, until he learns that his old friend, the emperor, is dead. Tarzan helps a company of soldiers still loyal to the dead emperor escape the valley.

1 pp.
“The Challenge”
Writer: Uncredited
 A group of young Zulu warriors accuse Mabu and Kaino of being liars. To prove his courage, Mabu challenges the young warrior Zaduzu to a lion hunt.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in Boy’s Fast Game”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Buoyed by compliments for chasing baboons out of Waziri crops, Boy comes up with an even grander scheme to impress people when he and Dombie plan to stake a cheetah in the shambas. They capture one with relative ease ... but hauling the cheetah frightens their elands to run wild.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 A lightning storm and stories of Tavane’s white magic on the rock of Sekani frighten the Garumba invaders. Before Dan-el can learn that they are fleeing, a weary Natongo comes riding. Zulena has disappeared!

Tarzan #107
August 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan in the Shrouded Valley of Monsters" ~ 15 pp.

107 After a photographer survives a plane crash in the volcanic Valley of Monsters, no one believes that his film of Tarzan killing a Tyrannsaurus with an arrow is real, and he can only sell the footage to a science-fiction movie producer.

1 pp.
“The Lion Hunt”
Writer: Uncredited
 Charged by a lion, Zaduzi panics and his spear misses. Mabu stands his ground and expertly kills his third lion.

9 pp.
“Tarzan -- Boy Leaves Home”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Unhappy about having to do chores that are “Women’s work,” Boy announces he’s leaving home. Tarzan and Jane don’t try to stop him, but Tarzan silently protects Boy from the jungle’s dangers, until he sees the error of his ways.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Hearing the news that the invaders are fleeing Aba-zulu, Dan-el marches his army in search Natongo’s missing wife. Shortcutting through the frozen tomb of Kings in the Northern Mountains, Dan-el and Natongo quickly find the trail of the captured Queen Zulena.

Tarzan #108
Sept.-Oct., 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Men of the Deep" ~ 16 pp.

108 A dying hunter tells of mermen with elephant heads who live under a lake.
 The mermen are normal natives using elephant head like scuba gear, with the trunks as snorkels. When Tarzan defeats their king ... the volcanic crater hiding their kingdom erupts.

1 pp.
“Worry is for Weaklings”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai doesn’t want to show that he’s worried about Mabu’s disappearance. When Mabu returns with his lion’s skin trophy, Hamasai is certain that he is blessed by the gods.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and Toto”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie help free a captured elephant and reunite the mother with her baby. Tarzan is unhappy about, but accustomed to, searching for Boy whenever he disappears on his adventures.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el and Natongo follow a river gorge and discover a hidden valley. They quickly find and release their missing men, and Natongo’s wife, Zulena.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 The series switches back to bimonthly.

Tarzan #109
Nov.-Dec. 1958
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Shifta’s Captive" ~ 15 pp.

109 Tarzan saves a medical missionary from Shifta Bandits, by tossing the sap of a Euphorbia plant into their campfire.
 A storm washes away the missionary’s camp, along with the troublesome Shiftas. In it’s wake, Tarzan discovers gold and donates it to the mission.

1 pp.
“Mabu’s New Desire”
Writer: Uncredited
 At a feast, Mabu decides he wants one of the ostrich plumes worn by the festival dancers. Ten-year old Mabu is also given beer and snuff. In an earlier chapter he was watching a naked girl bathe. But since this material is text, not illustrated, Fredrick Wertham (author of Seduction of the Innocent) never noticed.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in the Fire Mountain”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie climb Fire Mountain to gather precious stones to make a necklace for Jane. Thieves aren’t the worst trouble they encounter. To save them after the mountain erupts (of course), Tarzan must cross a river of lava by rope.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Before the Brothers can leave the village, the alarm goes out that the prisoners are loose. Cut off from the Aba-zulu warriors, Dan-el and Natongo escape with Zulena by river, taking a daring turn at a gigantic whirlpool.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 The cover copy about “Men of the Deep” was obviously meant for the last issue.

Tarzan #110
Jan.-Feb. 1959
Cover: Gordon Scott Photo ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan in the Fury of the Herd" ~ 15 pp.

110 A downed pilot ignores Tarzan’s orders and shoots a bull elephant ... angering the herd.
 The leather clad pilot is arrogant and self centered. To show off to his girlfriend, he had been buzzing the wildlife, until an angry lioness swatted his plane out of the air!

1 pp.
“On a Giraffe Hunt”
Writer: Uncredited
 As Hamasia’s group and the Zulus hunt giraffes, they in turn are hunted. The lioness lurking in the bush is seen just in time, and the hunters strike.

9 pp.
“Tarzan on Pirate Island”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 A squall blows Tarzan's and Boy to an island where a schooner’s murderous crew has turned to piracy. Left for dead when his head is grooved by a bullet, Tarzan finds help from a castaway ape and overpowers the mutineers.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Hiding in a river basin cave, Dan-el and Natongo’s boat drifts away and is swallowed by a whirlpool.
 Although their pursuers now think the Brothers and Zulena are dead, they’re trapped beneath a cliff that “Nothing but a fly could climb.” Dan-el barely survives the harrowing ascent.

Tarzan #111
March-April 1959
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan and the Horned Men" ~ 15 pp.

111 Tarzan helps Queen Nhaka of the Luembas fight the horn-wearing Kolumbwe and their speedy canoes by teaching her people to build even faster canoes; catamarans with reinforced prows for ramming and netting lace work to protect against spears.

1 pp.
“A Strange Way to Hunt”
Writer: Uncredited
 The Zulus kill and skin a giraffe. They also skin the lioness killed last issue. Mabu wonders why the Zulus leave the meat behind.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Stilt Walkers”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Two giant ‘stock beings’ come to Muviro’s hut at night, warning that the Mugandas are about to attack.
 Muviro never suspects that the ‘stork beings’ are Boy and Dombie, wearing suits and stilts given to Tarzan by the Stork People of Pal-ul-don. The Mugandas let what they thought were giant birds pass through their lines without question. They’re just a couple of birds bigger than a man!

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el’s men capture several enemy warriors, who tell how the Brothers perished in a whirlpool. While the others start back to Aba-zulu, Captain Inongi and five men swim downstream, determined to find their king still alive.

Tarzan #112
May-June 1959
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan -- Strangers in Lost Pal-ul-don" ~ 15 pp.

112 An R.A.F. plane flies too close to a newborn volcano in the Great Swamp, near the island kingdom of Lutor. Tarzan and Princess Loma rescue the crew from attacking Terribs. With help from Jorah, Tarzan rides the englishmen out of Pal-ul-don on Dyal steeds.

1 pp.
“Farewell to the Zulus”
Writer: Uncredited
 With much ceremony and the exchange of gifts, Hamasai’s hunting party prepares to leave the Zulu village. Mabu gives his lion trophy skin to Zaduzi, the boy who previously called him a liar, and has now become a friend.

9 pp.
“Tarzan -- The Ring of Fire”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy and Dombie, along with Tantor’s herd, are caught in a ring of fire set by poachers, guiding the elephants safely down the cliffs they were intended to stampeded over. A very unhappy Tarzan arrives to deal his justice when the poachers threaten the boys.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Captain Inongi and his men swimming in the river are captured by new raiders headed downstream. Dan-el and the rest of his men arrive at the same time to the rescue. Everyone who originally set out to rescue Zulena is now reunited.

Tarzan’s Jungle World 
Dell Giant #25
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan -- Wings in the Morning" ~ 22 pp.

2718 Badly wounded while rescuing Jane and Boy from a Wabuna witch doctor, Tarzan drinks the Elixir of Life. All ends well, but Tarzan has accepted the curse of the Elixir. The drink will extend his life and youth -- far beyond that of his family and friends.

5 pp.
“Jane -- The Rescue of N’Kima”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Uncredited
Inks: Uncredited
 N’Kima has been captured and sold at market. Jane rides Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion, to the rescue.

9 pp.
“Boy - Jungle Danger Signal“
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Tarzan gives Boy a whistle to blow in case of emergency. Boy and Dombie promptly go from one dilemma to another, until a great ape chasing them accidentally blows the whistle. Tarzan had expected it to be blown earlier.

8 pp.
“Tarzan and the Little Riders”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 When Prince Nikar of the Otar pygmies iscaptured by the Boruti tribe, Princess Lulan recruits helps from Tarzan.
 “He is better than an army!”

10 pp.
“The Heart of a Giant“
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Uncredited
Inks: Uncredited
 Looking for a family, the young bull giraffe Nobby fights another rogue bull to claim a young she who lost her mate to hunters.

16 pp.
“Tarzan and the Mask of Mani Kongo”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 An archaeologist has found the centuries old Golden Mask of Mani Kongo.
 When the mask, which legend says can endow its possessor with great power, is stolen, Tarzan pursues the thief he’d unwittingly saved earlier.

Tarzan #113
July-Aug., 1959
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan in the Vengeance of N’Gogo" ~ 15 pp.

113 The Witch Doctor N’Gogo and his Leopard Men have captured Tarzan and promise to kill him ... three times!
 When N’Gopo falls dead from fear, thinking that Tarzan has switched into the great ape who came to rescue him, word spreads of Tarzan’s fearsome magic.

1 pp.
“A Long Jungle Trail”
Writer: Uncredited
 The hunting party pauses to bathe in a stream. Mabu has been gone so long, he momentarily forgets what his mother looks like.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in Invasion From Pal-ul-don”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Terribs, the crocodile-skin wearing cannibals from Pal-ul-don, have invaded Tarzan’s Jungle. When they attack Boy and Dombie, Tarzan and the giant otters Zip and Zoom chase the gorobar riding Terribs over a waterfall.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 The Brothers part ways when Natongo and Zulena head back to Tungelu and Dan-el to Aba-zulu.
 When he and his men are trapped by flood waters on an island, Dan-el and Inongi build a raft and heads to M’Tembo for help.

Tarzan #114
Sept.-Oct.. 1959
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan -- Valley of Lions" ~ 15 pp.

114 Tarzan once again uses his ingenuity to solve the problems of two different tribes. Lions in a nearby valley are overrunning the Masai spearmen. So Tarzan relocates the Wakembe, who are at war with the Gahingas, into the valley. Their buffalo herds drive the lions out.

1 pp.
“Trouble”
Writer: Uncredited
 When one of his warriors tries to spear Hamasai in the back, an ever alert Mabu trips up Dalu, who’s been secretly drinking Zulu beer.

8 pp.
“Tarzan -- The Dry Lake Adventure”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Wind sailing the smooth clay bed of a dry lake on the Sailing Scooter built by Tarzan, the boys are caught inside a tornado! The tornado drops Boy and Dombie into the valley of the leather-winged Bat-Men.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 On the trail to Tembo, Dan-el and Inongi encounter Induna, King Molithi’s favorite elephant, who has once again gone mad. Removing a spear in his foot clears the madness. Molithi, the Third brother of the Spear, happily helps Dan-el rescue his soldiers trapped on an island surrounded by rising flood waters.

Tarzan #115
Nov.-Dec. 1959
Cover: Uncredited Painting ~Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Ink: Jesse Marsh
"Tarzan -- The Slingers of Kroo Maun" ~ 15 pp.

115 While gathering medicinal herbs and roots, a pair of sling-wielding Pal-ul-don Mountain Men run into trouble.
 Tarzan uses the smoke from a sleeping herb to rescue the brother and sister from the white cannibals called Hairy Giants. The cover says that Tarzan is captured by giants while helping his pygmy friends. Tarzan isn’t captured, and there are no pygmies. But there are giants, and giant editing gaffs, as well.

1 pp.
“Promise Fulfilled”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai’s hunting party nears the village of the Kru Tribe. Mabu is frustrated that they must sit and wait to be welcomed in.

8 pp.
“Tarzan -- Trial by Combat”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Treachery is afoot when Tarzan holds an Indaba, a council of seven tribes, to determine if Arab rifles should be allowed.
 The Witch Doctor Faloka is in league with the Arab Hassan to sway the voting, but confesses his lies when forced into a trail by combat.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Hastening to return to Aba-zulu, Dan-el and his men travel through the caverns of the Northern Mountains. There is danger aplenty as the group must traverse flooded cavern streams, climb sheets of ice, and dig through walls of snow.


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