Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Creat ...

, a fictional character created by

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in ...

, first appeared in the 1912 novel ''

Tarzan of the Apes ''Tarzan of the Apes'' is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series. The story was first printed in the pulp magazine '' The All-Story'' in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 191 ...

'', and then in 23 sequels. The character proved immensely popular and quickly made the jump to other media, including

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Comic strips

''Tarzan of the Apes'' was adapted into newspaper strip form, first published January 7, 1929, with illustrations by

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. A

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began on March 15, 1931, with artwork by Rex Maxon.

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distributed the strip. Over the years, many artists have drawn the ''Tarzan''

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, notably Rex Maxon (1929–1947),

Burne Hogarth Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg, December 25, 1911 – January 28, 1996) was an American artist and educator, best known for his work on the ''Tarzan (comics), Tarzan'' newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artis ...

(1937–1945, 1947–1950),

Ruben Moreira Ruben Moreira (July 27, 1922 – May 21, 1984) was a Puerto Rican comic book artist and writer best known for his work on ''Tarzan'' and as a DC Comics artist. Biography Ruben Moreira was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and moved with his mo ...

(1945–1947), Dan Barry (1948),

Paul Reinman Paul J. Reinman (; born Joseph Paul Reinmann, ; 2 September 1910 – 27 September 1988)Paul J. Reinmen

(1949–1950),

Bob Lubbers Robert Bartow Lubbers (January 10, 1922 – July 8, 2017) was an American comic strip and comic book artist best known for his work on such strips as ''Tarzan'', ''Li'l Abner'' and '' Long Sam''. Biography Born Robert Bartow Lubbers in 1922, he ...

(1950–1954), John Celardo (1954–1967),

Russ Manning Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VMMT-NZN : accessed 28 Aug 2014), Russell Manning, Dec 1981; citing U.S. Social Security Administratio ...

(1967–1979),

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(1979–1981),

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(1981–1983),

Gray Morrow Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (March 7, 1934 – November 6, 2001)Gray Morrow
at the S ...

(1983–2001) and

Eric Battle Eric Battle is an American illustrator. Battle's body of work consists mainly of contemporary American-style comic illustrations and fully painted illustration for publishing. He has illustrated numerous iconic characters for DC Comics and Marvel ...

(2001–2002). The

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began to reprint old dailies after the last Russ Manning daily (#10,308, which ran on 29 July 1972). The Sunday strip also turned to reprints after May 19, 2002. Both strips continue as reprints today in a few newspapers and in ''

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'' magazine. The comic strip has often borrowed plots and characters from the Burroughs Tarzan books. Writer Don Kraar, who wrote the strip from 1983 to 1995, included in his stories characters from other books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, including

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of Pellucidar and

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Stories

Shortly after the daily strip launched in 1929, the stories were given titles; this practice ran until 1939. The Sunday stories had titles from 1931 until 1950. Daily stories: # Tarzan of the Apes (Jan 7 – June 8, 1929) # Return of Tarzan (June 10 – Aug 17, 1929) # Beasts of Tarzan (Aug 19 – Nov 23, 1929) # Son of Tarzan (Nov 25, 1929 – March 15, 1930) # Jewels of Opar (March 17 – July 12, 1930) # Lost Empire (July 14 – Oct 18, 1930) # Golden Lion (Oct 20, 1930 – May 30, 1931) # At the Earth's Core (June 1 – Sept 19, 1931) # Tarzan the Terrible (Sept 21, 1931 – Jan 23, 1932) # The Ant Men (Jan 25 – June 18, 1932) # Tarzan the Untamed (June 20, 1932 – March 25, 1933) # Tarzan the Ape Man (March 27 – Sept 2, 1933) # Tarzan the Invincible (Sept 4, 1933 – March 24, 1934) # City of Gold (March 26 – Sept 15, 1934) # The Lion Man (Sept 17, 1934 – Feb 23, 1935) # The Fire Gods (Feb 25 – Aug 31, 1935) # Tarzan Twins (Sept 2 – Dec 28, 1935) # The Leopard Men (Dec 30, 1935 – June 22, 1936) # The Mayan Goddess (June 24 – Dec 12, 1936) # Tarzan's Quest (Dec 14, 1936 – June 19, 1937) # Tarzan the Magnificent (June 21 – Oct 9, 1937) # Tarzan Under Fire (Oct 11, 1937 – Jan 15, 1938) # Tarzan the Fearless (Jan 17 – May 7, 1938) # The Forbidden City (May 9 – Oct 8, 1938) # The Elephant Men (Oct 10, 1938 – Feb 18, 1939) # The Fires of Tohr (Feb 20 – Aug 26, 1939) Sunday stories: # Rex Maxon Sundays (Mar 15 - Sept 20, 1931) # Foreign Legion (Sept 27 – Dec 30, 1931) # Hulva the Beautiful (Feb 7 – April 17, 1932) # The Lion Tamer (April 24 – June 5, 1932) # Korak (June 12 – July 31, 1932) # The Elephants Graveyard (Aug 7 – Oct 29, 1932) # The Egyptian Adventure (Nov 4, 1932 – June 24, 1934) # The Arab Maiden (July 1 – Dec 9, 1934) # The White God (Dec 16, 1934 – Feb 10, 1935) # The Aviatrix (Feb 17 – June 2, 1935) # The Lost Vikings (June 9, 1935 – Jan 5, 1936) # Flint (Jan 12, 1936 – May 2, 1937) # In the City of Gold (May 9 – Oct 3, 1937) # Tarzan and the Boers (Oct 10, 1937 – May 30, 1938) # Tarzan and the Chinese (June 5 – Nov 20, 1938) # Tarzan and the Pygmies (Nov 27, 1938 – May 14, 1939) # Tarzan and the Amazons (May 21 – July 23, 1939) # Tarzan and the Boers (second story) (July 30, 1939 – April 29, 1940) # People of the Sea and the Fire (May 5, 1940 – April 20, 1941) # Tarzan Against Dagga Ramba (April 27, 1941 – April 24, 1942) # The Fatal Fountain (May 1 – Aug 2, 1942) # Tarzan and the Barbarians (Aug 9, 1942 – Oct 24, 1943) # Tarzan Against Kandullah and the Nazis (Oct 31, 1943 – March 12, 1944) # Don Macabre (March 19 – July 30, 1944) # Tarzan Against the Nazis (Aug 6, 1944 – March 11, 1945) # Goru-Bongara (March 18 – July 8, 1945) # Orizu Khan (July 15, 1945 – Aug 3, 1947) # The Island of Ka-Gor (Aug 10 – Dec 7, 1947) # Tarzan and N'ani (Dec 14, 1947 – May 9, 1948) # The Island of Mua-Ao (May 16, 1948 – May 1, 1949) # Tarzan and the Ononones (May 8 – Oct 23, 1949) # Tarzan and the Adventurers (Oct 30, 1949 – July 16, 1950) # The Wild Game Hunter (July 23 – Aug 20, 1950)

Reprints

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did a quality reprint series of the Foster and Hogarth work on Tarzan in a series of hardback and paperback reprints in the 1990s. In 2014,

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reprinted the Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth Sundays in the original

size in 3 volumes. *

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did a reprint of the Burne Hogarth Sundays and dailies in a series of 5 volumes starting in 2014. * One full year of the strip is reprinted by

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in the '' LoAC Essentials'' line of books. The book covers a year of

's run. * The Library of American Comics reprinted

's run of the ''Tarzan'' newspaper strip, in their 4 volume series, '' Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips''.

Comic books

United States

Tarzan has appeared in many comic books from numerous publishers over the years, notably

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and

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. The character's earliest comic book appearances were in comic strip reprints published in several titles, such as ''Sparkler'', ''Tip Top Comics'' and ''Single Series''.

Western Publishing

Western Publishing published ''Tarzan'' in

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' ''

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'' #134 & 161 in 1947, before giving him his own series, ''Tarzan'' #1–131 (January–February 1948 – July–August 1962), through

as well as in some ''Dell Giants'' and '' March of Comics'' giveaways, then continued the series with #132–206 (November 1962 to February 1972) through their own

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. This series featured artwork by Jesse Marsh,

, and

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. It included adaptions of most of Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan books (skipping only ''Tarzan and the Leopard Men'', ''Tarzan the Magnificent'', ''Tarzan and the Madman'' and ''Tarzan and the Castaways''), as well as original stories and other features. Almost all of the Dell ''Tarzan'' stories were written by

Gaylord Du Bois Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (; sometimes written DuBois; August 24, 1899 – October 20, 1993) was an American writer of comic book stories and comic strips, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. Du Bois wrote ''Tarzan'' for De ...

(notably, not before Dell issue #2, and some of the stories in the Tarzan issues of the Dell Giant series) and all of the Gold Key stories. Western also published a companion series, ''Korak: Son of Tarzan'' for 45 issues from 1964 to 1972, all of which were written by Du Bois). When Western refused to expand the number of Edgar Rice Burroughs comic books being published, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. sold the rights to DC Comics, who were willing to publish more comics so long as they sold. This decision was motivated by the lucrative overseas reprint rights, which Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. were selling to foreign publishers on a per-page rate.

DC Comics

DC Comics took over the series in 1972, publishing ''Tarzan'' #207–258 from April 1972 to February 1977. DC continued the numbering from the Gold Key series, rather than starting over at #1. Publishers believed at the time that a series would sell less if people perceived it as new. This version initially showcased artist

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's depiction of the character, considered some of the best work of the artist's career. Comics historian

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noted that Kubert's "scripts and artwork ranked among the most authentic and effective ever seen". DC Comics writer and executive

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stated in 2010 that "Joe Kubert produced an adaptation that Burroughs aficionados could respect". The series featured some adaptations of the Burroughs books in addition to original stories, adapting ''Tarzan of the Apes'', ''The Return of Tarzan'', ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan'', ''Tarzan the Untamed'', ''Tarzan and the Lion Man'' and ''Tarzan and the Castaways''. Issues #230 (April–May 1974) to #235 (Feb.–March 1975) of the series were in the 100 Page Super Spectacular format. Initially the series featured adaptions of other Burroughs creations, and had the companion titles ''

Korak, Son of Tarzan Korak, a fictional character, is the ape name of John "Jack" Clayton III, the son of Tarzan and Jane Porter. History Jack first appeared in the original ''Tarzan'' novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was introduced as an infant in the non-Tarzan ...

'' and '' Weird Worlds''. The ''Korak'' series was later renamed ''The Tarzan Family'', into which all the non-Tarzan Burroughs adaptations were consolidated. During this period, the British arm of

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, the corporate parent of DC Comics, published ''Tarzan'' and ''Korak'' for the British market. Two issues of '' Limited Collectors' Edition'' featured reprints of Kubert's ''Tarzan'' stories. Because Russ Manning's portrayal of Tarzan was considered "definitive" in most countries, Joe Kubert's Tarzan comics were not well-received outside of the U.S.A., and were consistently outsold by reprints of Manning's Tarzan. Afraid that foreign publishers would stop purchasing reprint rights to the new comics, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. hired Manning (and later

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) to oversee the creation of exclusively overseas editions done in Manning's style.

Marvel Comics

In 1977 the series moved to Marvel Comics, retitled as ''Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle''. Marvel published 29 issues from June 1977 to October 1979 and three ''Annual''s. It restarted the numbering rather than assuming that used by the previous publishers. The series was written by

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and featured artwork by

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. Burroughs books adapted by Marvel include ''Tarzan of the Apes'', ''Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar'' and ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan''. Mark Evanier remarked that

... the whole Marvel deal was doomed from the start. ... The foreign publishers did not want adaptations. Roy Thomas felt they should do adaptations. They wanted the Russ Manning versions, but John Buscema wanted to make it as much like the Joe Kubert version as possible. Also, the foreign publishers needed stories in fifteen-page increments, because most of the books feature thirty pages of material and two pages of ads. Everything that made the books commercial in America, made them uncommercial overseas.

Marvel did not continue the ''Tarzan Family'' title, publishing instead a series on Burroughs' primary non-Tarzan character, ''

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''. ''

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'' #29 (1983) featured a Tarzan story by writers Sharman DiVono and

and artist

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics has published various ''Tarzan'' series from 1996 to the present, including archive reprints of works from previous publishers such as Western/Gold Key and DC. Dark Horse and DC published two

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titles teaming Tarzan with

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and

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. '' Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman'' is a "straight" team-up between Tarzan and the 1930s Batman to save an ancient city – during which the two form an effective team as they acknowledge their similar origins, despite such differences as Tarzan's willingness to use lethal force. '' Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle'' is a revisionist version in which Lord Greystoke grows up in England, while Kal-El is raised by the apes as "Argozan", although the two switch roles at the conclusion with Greystoke remaining in the jungle while Kal-El returns to the city, Greystoke stating in a letter to his parents that he feels as though he has found his true place. Tarzan also fought the

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in the '' Tarzan vs. Predator: At the Earth's Core'' miniseries. In 2015, Sequential Pulp Comics, a graphic novel imprint distributed by Dark Horse Comics, published ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan'' by writer Martin Powell and artists

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at the

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, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto,

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, Lowell Isaac, Tom Floyd, and Jamie Chase. The cover was by Daren Bader.

Idaho Comics Group

Although Dark Horse Comics holds the comic book licensing rights for the Tarzan character, in 2014 they allowed

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to publish ''Tarzan and the Comics of Idaho'' #1. Edgar Rice Burroughs spent many formative years in Idaho and wrote his first draft of ''Tarzan'' in the state. ''Tarzan and the Comics of Idaho'' was a comic book anthology showcasing the comic book creators from Idaho. It featured stories and art from

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, Todd Clark of the nationally syndicated ''Lola'' comic strip, Steve Moore,

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, and others. Only 500 copies of this comic book were printed and all of the proceeds were to benefit the Boise Public Library. In 2015, ''Tarzan and the Comics of Idaho'' #2 was released. This edition featured work by Monte Michael Moore,

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, Todd Clark of the nationally syndicated ''Lola'' comic strip, the award-winning poet of ''Miss Lost Nation'' Bethany Schultz Hurst, and many more.

Dynamite Entertainment

In December 2011,

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launched the series ''Lord of the Jungle'', starring Tarzan. The publisher avoided using the character's name on the cover, as not to violate the trademark, even though the character is in the

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and freely available to use but ERB, Inc. brought a lawsuit against Dynamite. In 2013, a crossover with John Carter was released entitled ''Lords of Mars''. In 2016 Dynamite released limited series ''Lords of the Jungle'' featuring Tarzan and

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Other publishers

During the timespan of the original comic book series from Western, DC and Marvel, a number of other comic book projects from other publishers also appeared.

briefly published a Tarzan comic from December 1964 – July 1965 titled ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan'', adapting stories from that Burroughs book, on the mistaken belief that the character was already in the

at that time. Watson-Guptill Publications published hardcover comic book versions of the first half of ''Tarzan of The Apes'' in 1972 and four stories from ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan'' in 1976. These were illustrated by Hogarth many years after he stopped doing the newspaper strip and had a level of penmanship rarely seen in comics or even illustrations. It had captions of text from the novel instead of speech balloons. Between the periods when Marvel and Dark Horse held the licence to the character, Tarzan had no regular comic book publisher for a number of years. During this time

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published a four-issue ''Tarzan'' series in 1986, reprinting strips by Hogarth, Manning, Gil Kane, and Mike Grell. In 1992,

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produced a five-issue miniseries entitled ''Tarzan the Warrior'', written by Mark Wheatley with art by Neil Vokes. The first issue included two covers with one featuring painted art by

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. This was followed by a three-issue miniseries entitled ''Tarzan: Love, Lies and the Lost City'' and then a 7-issue miniseries entitled ''Tarzan: The Beckoning'', with story and art by

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. It was reprinted in trade paperback by Dark Horse Comics in 2016. There have been a number of minor appearance of Tarzan in comic books over the years. Though not mentioned by name, Tarzan is referenced in

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's ''

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''. Places and people from the original Tarzan novels are referred to, suggesting that Tarzan does or did exist in that universe. In a 1999 ''

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'' story, ''Lord of the Jungle'', the hero meets Edgar Rice Burroughs, and inspires him to create Tarzan.

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' '' Planetary'' series has a

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of Tarzan named Lord Blackstock. In 1999, Dark Horse Comics published comics featuring the Disney version of the character from the 1999 film. In 2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc began publishing

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s on their official website including ''Tarzan'' by writer

and artist

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and ''Tarzan of The Apes'' by Roy Thomas, artist

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of then-

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after its founding in 1954. The German ''Tarzan'' #34 and #35 of the monthly series were not allowed to be sold in the country because the department stated that they would affect young people in a "nerve-inflaming and brutalising way" and "transport them into an unreal world of lies". Such works were supposedly "the result of a degenerate imagination", which is considered an insult to the comics' illustrator at the time, John Celardo. Westworld Publications in UK began by reprinting the bedsheet size version of

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's Italian and French editions which chiefly reprinted the Foster and Hogarth Sunday pages at roughly the size in which they had originally appeared. By the mid-1950s, Westworld produced a regular comic book size weekly and in 1957, under the editorship of teenaged

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, ran features about other Burroughs characters as well as newly-created stories and strips with a strong Burroughs flavor. After Moorcock resigned, his 75-year-old assistant removed all references to Burroughs or his characters, as well as all fantasy or science-fiction content. The magazine folded around 1960. During the 1970s and 1980s, Tarzan comics was published in Greece by Dragounis Editions ("Pidalio Press Corporation"). Tarzan comics was produced from 1983 to 1989 by Marketprint in Yugoslavia. They were later translated and published in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. There were over 100 published episodes, each of which had 16 pages. In most of them,

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was involved, either as the writer, penciller, inker or complete author. He was also responsible for "The Kalonga Star," a five episode crossover between Tarzan and Kobra. Other notable episodes were "Tarzan and Barbarians", "The Tiger", "The Boy from the Stars" and "Big Race." In March 2021, the French publisher

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published ''Tarzan, seigneur de la jungle'' (Tarzan, lord of the jungle) by Christophe Bec (script) and Stevan Subic (art), In November of the same year, it published ''Tarzan, au centre de la Terre'' (2021) by Christophe Bec (script), Stefano Raffaele, Roberto Pascual de la Torre and Dave Stewart (art). In October 2024, the French publisher Glénat Éditions published ''Tarzan, l'homme-singe - Tome 1'' by Eric Corbeyran (script) and Roy Allan Martinez (art).

Collected editions

Dark Horse Comics

* ''Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years'' ** Volume 1 collects ''Four Color'' #134 and 161 and ''Tarzan'' #1–4, 256 pages, January 2009, ** Volume 2 collects ''Tarzan'' #5–10, 224 pages, May 2009, ** Volume 3 collects ''Tarzan'' #11–16, 240 pages, September 2009, ** Volume 4 collects ''Tarzan'' #17–21, 232 pages, November 2009, ** Volume 5 collects ''Tarzan'' #22–27, 240 pages, February 2010, ** Volume 6 collects ''Tarzan'' #28–32 and ''Tarzan's Jungle Annual'' #1, 248 pages, August 2010, ** Volume 7 collects ''Tarzan'' #33–38, 224 pages, November 2010, ** Volume 8 collects ''Tarzan'' #39–43, 224 pages, February 2011, ** Volume 9 collects ''Tarzan'' #44–46 and ''Tarzan’s Jungle Annual'' #2, 240 pages, May 2011, ** Volume 10 collects ''Tarzan'' #47–51, 224 pages, December 2011, ** Volume 11 collects ''Tarzan'' #52–56 and ''March of Comics'' #125, 224 pages, July 2012, * ''Tarzan: The Russ Manning Years'' ** Volume 1 collects ''Tarzan'' #155–161, #163–164, and #166–167, 288 pages, December 2012, * ''Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years'' ** Volume 1 collects ''Tarzan'' #207–214, 200 pages, November 2005, ** Volume 2 collects ''Tarzan'' #215–224, 208 pages, March 2006, ** Volume 3 collects ''Tarzan'' #225–235, 216 pages, July 2006, *The Unauthorized Tarzan **''Jungle Tales of Tarzan'' #1–#4, 112 pages, March 2013,

IDW Publishing

* '' Joe Kubert's Tarzan of the Apes: Artist's Edition '' 156 pages, September 2012,

References

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