Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for February 15, 2025

Black gold for some, “black death” for many.

“Ah! It’s the old scare off the natives from oil deposits ploy” ~ Not even close to an Inspector Clouseau quote.

Steenky slimy oil eh. And then there is steenky slimy hoomans. Time to digs a big pit of steenky slimy oil and shove em steenky slimy hoomans into it.

Oil that is, black gold. Texas tea.

LOL I guess the Tarmangani haven’t bathed in a while!

It’s rumored that, when late Portuguese President António de Oliveira Salazar was told that oil had been discovered in the colonies, his reply was a very sarcastic “Oh, great. That’s just what we needed.”

In the following years, Portugal all but lost its colonies.

I’m not saying it was the CIA.

Tarzan: “First I deal with those creeps, then I’m gonna be VERY rich…”

Tarzan said, uh oh, wait a minute, that’s not slime oil.

This strip was actually the inspiration for The Beverly Hillbillies, but the producers didn’t think The Beverly African Natives would work so they went with the Ozark theme.

A classic MG must have parked there.

You sure that ain’t some of that snake oil dropped by your ol pal sometime ago Tarzan?

The orange-faced maniac’s henchmen looking todevelop oil drilling in the midst of Tarzan’s jungle….it will be “beautiful” just like the Gaza Strip once all of the natives and animals are re-located" to a much, much better place to live! Hahahahaha………

They must be looking for the bath house.

AKA hunkeys?

(Gocomics wouldn’t let me use the o.)