Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5675 |
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Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5675 |
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January 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan -- 'The Jungle Murders' -- Part One" ~ 17 pp.  The fight over the
stolen plans for a secret weapon finds it’s way into Tarzan’s jungle world.
Finding two downed planes in the jungle, with one dead pilot, Tarzan deduces that a chase is going on. But while working through the clues, Tarzan does more talking to himself than he’s done since the Marsh-era stories. Before Tarzan encounters any of the crash survivors, he’s captured and staked out by Chief Chemungo and his warriors. Meanwhile, the stolen plans of a dead inventor are in the hands of one killer, who is pursued by a pair of men who’ve also killed for the same secret plans. Elements of this plot were later reused for an episode of the Disney Tarzan cartoon series. 1 pp.
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February 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan -- 'The Jungle Murders' -- Part 2" ~17 pp.  Tarzan calls on
his elephant friends to save him from a sacrificial stake.
A classic Tarzan escape starts out the conclusion of this two-parter. You could tell that the threatening chief wasn’t going to live long. He changed his name from Chemungo on the last page of last issue, to Mpingu on the first page of this. The survivors of the two crashed planes have all joined a safari, and take turns killing each other off. With his keen nose, Tarzan solves the crimes quickly and helps the authorities arrest the last surviving thief. It’s interesting that Tarzan can read the scientist’s plans at a glance. 1 pp.
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March 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan -- “Diamond Slaves'" ~ 17 pp.  An escaped slave
begs Tarzan to rescue his fellow villagers from the diamond mines of Abdul
Ram.
As soon as Tarzan arrives, he learns that he’s been betrayed. You already know what happens next. Forced to work in the diamond mines, Tarzan quickly ferments revolt. But once again he’s betrayed. Abdul Ram tries to force Tarzan to watch the men he led be fed to the lions. But Tarzan throws wooden benches from the stands into the arena and frees the lions to chase the slavers. When Abdul Ram orders Tarzan to be attacked by the men he just saved, this time Abdul Ram is the one who’s surprised. 1 pp./photos Babe Ruth & Sabu actor
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April 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan and the Champion -- Part One" ~ 17 pp.  Boxing Champion
One-Punch Mullargan takes a vacation in Africa to hunt for animal trophies.
One-Punch Mullargan hunts with a tommy-gun and brags about bringing back “a thousand heads.” Riding in a truck, he machine guns down a herd of Zebras and then a family of elephants. When Tarzan confronts the butcher, he knocks the champ down. The Champ is quickly back on his feet, with clenched fists that are legally declared as lethal weapons, looking for a rematch. The story ends with cliffhanger of the impending fight. “What will be the outcome of a contest between the ring-hardened champion and Tarzan of the Apes?” Get your bets down! |
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May 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Uncredited ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan and the Champion -- Conclusion"  Tarzan’s fight with
Champion Boxer One-Punch Mullargan is interrupted ... by hungry cannibals!
This morality tale concludes as, staked out while the cannibal’s cooking pot is simmering, the Champ expresses regret for his previous animal slaughter. But after Tarzan saves the Champ and his manager from both hungry cannibals and equally hungry lions, Mullargan goes back to his old habits. The fight is back on, and the Champ quickly knocked out. Tarzan watches from the trees as two men depart Africa with markedly different attitudes from when they arrived. Anybody who didn’t know who’d win the fight ... pay up. You owe me money. |
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June 1976 Cover: Jose Luis Carcia-Lopez/Villagran ~ Writer: Gerry Conway Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: The Redondo Studio "Tarzan the Untamed" ~ 17 pp.  When Jane is killed
by Germans in the first week of World War I, Lord Greystoke goes insane!
The title page accurately touts this as being Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most savage novel when, in unbridled rage, Lord Greystoke returns to his untamed ape-man persona. “Tarzan will have revenge!” He trails the German regiment responsible for torching his estate and storms their command tent. Carrying off Major Schneider, Tarzan deals his justice by feeding Jane’s killer to a lion. This is indeed Tarzan at his most savage! His rage still unsated, Tarzan declares that the war of men is now also Tarzan’s War! |
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July 1976 Cover: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Writer: Gerry Conway Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan the Untamed -- Part Two: Jungle War" ~ 17 pp.  When Tarzan declares
war, it’s jungle warfare like you’ve never seen before.
The start of the story backs up a little bit, as the reader gets better details on the feeding of Schnieder, the German officer who murdered Jane, to a lion. Tarzan then takes his quest for revenge to the WWI trenches. Sneaking behind the German lines, and with Jane’s name on his lips, Tarzan turns their own machine gun on them. The next night, as UnderLieutenant Von Goss brags about burning the Greystoke estate, he looks up in time to see the attacking lion that Tarzan just loosed into the trenches. Like Tarzan’s revenge, destiny is not to be denied. |
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August 1976 Cover: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Writer: Gerry Conway Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan the Untamed -- Part Three" ~ 17 pp.  Tarzan saves a German
spy from a lion, only to discover she’s wearing Jane’s locket!
Tarzan saved Fraulein Bertha Kircher from the lion, even though he’d seen her spying in the British camp, and wearing a uniform in the German’s command tent. But when he finds Jane’s locket, he wants answers! It turns out that Tarzan killed the wrong Major Schneider. He swears renewed revenge against Hauptmann Schneider. But Bertha has a mission more important than Tarzan’s revenge, and clubs him from behind to make her escape. 10 pp. Reprint
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September 1976 Cover: Joe Kubert ~ Writer: Gerry Conway Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan the Untamed -- Part 4 -- A Death for a Death!" ~ 11 pp.  Tarzan takes his
revenge for the murder of Jane ... again!
Following the German spy Bertha Kircher, Tarzan crashes her meeting with Hauptman Fritz Schneider. It’s a fight to the death with Jane’s murderer. When Bertha fears for her life, Tarzan replies that he doesn’t kill women ... like the Germans do. Disgusted, Tarzan leaves civilization for the jungles of his youth. Barely surviving a desert crossing, he encounters Bertha once again, now a prisoner of abusive native deserters. Tarzan snarls when they strike Bertha. 6 pp. Reprint
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October 1976 Cover: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Writer: Gerry Conway and David Anthony Kraft Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: Frank Springer "Tarzan the Untamed -- Part Five -- Vengeance and Mercy!" ~ 17 pp.  Tarzan and British
pilot Lt. Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick are burned at the stake by cannibals.
A little confusion to start out here. The last you saw, Tarzan was getting ready to rescue Bertha from deserters. This chapter opens with Tarzan and a British pilot burning at the stake, while Bertha is the one arriving dramatically with a Great Apes posse to make the rescue. Flashbacks tell of her escape from the deserters, and subsequent rescue by Tarzan. After she returns the favor, Tarzan is confused -- kind of like the reader is. He hates the Germans for killing Jane, but has grown to respect this woman, despite knowing she’s also a spy! |
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November 1976 Cover: Ernie Chua ~ Writer: Denny O’Neil Pencils: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ~ Inks: Frank Springer "Tarzan the Untamed -- Part 6 -- Death in the Sky!" ~ 17 pp.  Tarzan ropes a biplane
and makes a daring midair rescue.
Tarzan had thought it’d be fine to leave Bertha, the German spy, and the British pilot Smith-Oldwick to find their way back to civilization. Then he encounters a group of insane, primitively armored warriors. When he returns to check on the couple, he discovers that they’ve run afoul of yet more native German deserters. After saving the couple with his aerial acrobatics, Tarzan finds a set of boot tracks that startles him. A woman wearing the same sort of boot as Jane has passed by. Forget the World War ... the quest for Jane has begun! |
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December 1976 Cover: Ernie Chua ~ Writer: Denny O’Neil ~ Pencils and Inks: Rudy Florese "Tarzan the Untamed -- “The Final Quest'" ~ 17 pp.  Tarzan fights the
weirdest creature yet. A Glyf is half-triceratops dinosaur and half-overgrown
armadillo.
The constant changing of scripters on this adaptation really shows. Sections from the conclusion of the sequel novel, Tarzan the Terrible, are ineffectively hammered in. The Gryf triceratops is transformed into the weird looking Glyf. A Goof, in my opinion. Tarzan finds and saves not only Jane, but the British pilot Smith-Oldwick and the German spy, Bertha Kircher, who've been kept prisoner in a Medieval castle. Tarzan eventually learns that Kircher was really a British double-agent. Don’t waste your time on this conclusion. Read the Manning version. |
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January 1977 Cover: Ernie Chua ~ Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- 'The Nightmare'" ~ 17 pp. Reprint  Which threat is
real?
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan episode where Tarzan has significant nightmares after eating spoiled meat stolen from a native cooking pot is reprinted. There have been a number of talented artists illustrating Tarzan over the years, and Kubert was one of the best. He brought modern styling and panel arrangement to the storytelling, and infused a number of cinematic techniques. His faraway perspectives for establishing locator shots were particularly effective. And, except for the novel adaptations, Kubert’s stories concentrated on Tarzan as a loner. SPECIAL NOTE:
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February 1977 Cover: Ernie Chua ~ Writer/Pencils/Inks: Joe Kubert "Tarzan -- “The Renegades'" ~ 17 pp.  A DC reprint of
their own story about treasure hunting renegades who raid an ancient tomb
filled with gold and jewels.
Between greed, booby-traps, and Tarzan, none of the looters make it out alive. Tarzan takes a single jewel, more magnificent than all the others, to make reparations for the crimes and destruction caused by the renegades. 1 pp. “Fantastic Creatures of Edgar Rice Burroughs” Writer: Uncredited Pencils: Neal MacDonald Inks: Neal MacDonald SPECIAL NOTE:
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DELL Nos. 128 - 139 1962/1963 |
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DELL Nos. 156 - 173 1966/1967 |
DELL Nos. 174 - 189 1968/1969 |
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DELL Nos. 190 - 206 1970/1971 (Feb 72 Final Dell) |
DC Nos. 207 - 226 1972/1973 |
DC Nos. 227 - 244 1974/1975 |
DC Nos. 245 - 258 1976/1977 |
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