I am a HUGE Tarzan fan in fact for the longest time I wanted to BE Tarzan. I have a ton of Tarzan, comics, books, movies etc.... and yet the closest JB has come to drawing him is doing Kazar which is close but not quite the right thing.

Any other Tarzan fanatics here?

P.S. Gordon Scott was the BEST movie Tarzan hands down!!!

I always enjoyed Tarzan, but I liked John Carter better. I read the entire Mars series during the summer before 9th grade. What an adventure...!

Tarzan would be great, though I think John Carter would be even better. Both are absolutely perfect comic book fodder, and it is a shame nothing is being done with them.

Byrne would be fabulous at drawing the ruins of ancient cities on Mars, with the two moons hurtling through the sky, and a horde of four-armed green martians ambushing John Carter and his princess...

Sigh...

-Keith (I think that was my first sigh on the John Byrne forum...)

I've been trying to convince Whoever May Listen that the DC issues of Tarzan that Joe Kubert drew ("First DC Issue" era) should be published in a nice hardbound book like they're doing with Tor.
Would that be an item that a true Tarzan fanatic would go for?

You probably know already that Gil Kane drew a John Carter series for Marvel back in the mid 1970's. I have no idea if there were enough issues to collect in an Essentials Volume, or who moght even have the rights to the character.

I remember seeing the Dark Horse reprinted the Russ Manning Tarzans in lovely little (in my case, a bit TOO little) paperbacks, so I imagine thay've got the ERB rights.

I have read quite a few of ERB's Tarzan novels. As a kid I used to love the Ron Ely TV Series, (before I was familiar with the source novels) Tarzan is definitely (along with Dr Who and Robin Hood) one of my childhood heroes who I will always have a place for.

Still can't work out why Disney called the villain "Clayton" in their animated version though? That causes so much confusion when I try to explain to my young nephews that Clayton is Tarzan.

I just caught the tail end of a new American Tarzan series showing over here in Britain. It was Tarzan done as a contempoary Smallville type thing. That really sucks!

You probably know already that Gil Kane drew a John Carter series for Marvel back in the mid 1970's. I have no idea if there were enough issues to collect in an Essentials Volume, or who moght even have the rights to the character.

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Yep. I started collecting that with issue 12, back in... 6th grade? [Skeletons clawing themselves up from the sands of the Martian desert! They've got Dejah Thoris! Oh, no!] Good stuff. It was the first comic I ever sought out back issues from. Ordered them through the mail from Mile High Comics, which I had seen an ad for. This was before I knew 'comic book shops' existed.

I think the series ran for about 50 issues, plus a few annuals.

Incidently, the first few Mars novels and Tarzan novels are now public domain; enough time has elapsed that the copyright has expired. Does this mean that, say, a comic adaption of these novels could be made, in the same way 'Moby Dick' or other classics can be? I'm guessing not, but I don't understand why.

-Keith

Eric, im a huge Tarzan fan as well,have you by any chance the Edgar rice Burroughs library of illustration?
its the last word in tarzan art.

Its pretty nifty from a portfolio of professional comic book artists, about 1978?

DADDIO