Well fans, it’s evening on the west coast and you easterners and mid-westerners are now in the land of nod—people like Aperson of interest-Brickhouse—vista Bill and other regulars—I don’t know about Katman , he’s probably in an action book or film— Now to the strip, Sadness comes tomorrow, Lord Greystoke makes his last diary entry.
That is sad. Never having read the origin story, i thought both the parents were killed bby forest animals. Also, i thought that the greystokes were explorers of a sort, which explained there great many provisions.
@brickhouse You can probably find ERB’s first Tarzan novel at your local public library. The strip is being quite faithful to the story, but it’s faster to read the novel than to get the entire saga through a daily comic strip.
Good morning Quartermain. I remember reading this back about a hundred years ago when I a kid. It was very sad to me then … and still is after all these years.
Interesting to compare different artists’ [and writers’] adaptations. The first one I ever read was Russ Manning’s, in the Gold Key Comics’ version. The first page begins right in the middle of the mutiny, with Lord and Lady Greystoke emerging from their cabin, the mutineer running at them full tilt, shouting, “Here’s two more for the fishes!” and just starting to raise his axe.
I remember Joe Kubert’s DC Comics’ version as well [which filled in more of the blanks than Manning’s].
Never saw Celardo’s version since I wasn’t bothering with the newspapers much when I was 9 [and I don’t think they carried Tarzan where I grew up, anyway].
Celardo’s real good, Kubert’s great, [Foster and Hogarth are fantastic, though I don’t know if they ever did the origin story], but my favorite, hands down, will always be Manning!
At 9:30am here in SoCal I seem to be quite late and all of you gentlemen (and women?) have already covered just about everything. Anyway Bwana Quartermain likes to give me a “hard time” about my rising “late” every so often and vice-versa. Everyone has overlooked Jesse Marsh who drew the Dell monthly comic for many years, and there were quite a few newspapers carrying the strip as well, one being the now-defunct World Telegram & Sun I read in the early 1950s. A good Tarzan movie overlooked is from 1984 titled “Greystoke; The Legend of Tarzan of the Apes” with Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, and Andie McDowell. Somehow the Disney one, although entertaining, just doesn’t “cut it” for me.
You can download both Tarzan Of The Apes and The Return Of Tarzan at Project Gutenberg for free, BTW. EPUB for Nooks, or MOBI for Kindles, or just download as a text doc. if you don’t have an eReader. Many other ERB books there also, as well as hundreds of other authors who are now in the public domain. It’s a great site – give it a try. (They also have many of these in MP3 audio, but you may not care for the quality.)
quartermain almost 13 years ago
Well fans, it’s evening on the west coast and you easterners and mid-westerners are now in the land of nod—people like Aperson of interest-Brickhouse—vista Bill and other regulars—I don’t know about Katman , he’s probably in an action book or film— Now to the strip, Sadness comes tomorrow, Lord Greystoke makes his last diary entry.
brickhouse almost 13 years ago
That is sad. Never having read the origin story, i thought both the parents were killed bby forest animals. Also, i thought that the greystokes were explorers of a sort, which explained there great many provisions.
tripwire45 almost 13 years ago
@brickhouse You can probably find ERB’s first Tarzan novel at your local public library. The strip is being quite faithful to the story, but it’s faster to read the novel than to get the entire saga through a daily comic strip.
APersonOfInterest almost 13 years ago
Good morning Quartermain. I remember reading this back about a hundred years ago when I a kid. It was very sad to me then … and still is after all these years.
William Reynolds almost 13 years ago
I’m reading Tarzan of the Apes again. The story line is true to the book. The book is also available free online if you have an ereader.
Trixon almost 13 years ago
My geography teacher in junior high use to lend us his Tarzan books from his old collection: used to stay till 4 AM reading them sometimes.
alleyoops Premium Member almost 13 years ago
This might make a good movie.
FENRISULFR almost 13 years ago
Interesting to compare different artists’ [and writers’] adaptations. The first one I ever read was Russ Manning’s, in the Gold Key Comics’ version. The first page begins right in the middle of the mutiny, with Lord and Lady Greystoke emerging from their cabin, the mutineer running at them full tilt, shouting, “Here’s two more for the fishes!” and just starting to raise his axe.
I remember Joe Kubert’s DC Comics’ version as well [which filled in more of the blanks than Manning’s].
Never saw Celardo’s version since I wasn’t bothering with the newspapers much when I was 9 [and I don’t think they carried Tarzan where I grew up, anyway].
Celardo’s real good, Kubert’s great, [Foster and Hogarth are fantastic, though I don’t know if they ever did the origin story], but my favorite, hands down, will always be Manning!
profkatz almost 13 years ago
At 9:30am here in SoCal I seem to be quite late and all of you gentlemen (and women?) have already covered just about everything. Anyway Bwana Quartermain likes to give me a “hard time” about my rising “late” every so often and vice-versa. Everyone has overlooked Jesse Marsh who drew the Dell monthly comic for many years, and there were quite a few newspapers carrying the strip as well, one being the now-defunct World Telegram & Sun I read in the early 1950s. A good Tarzan movie overlooked is from 1984 titled “Greystoke; The Legend of Tarzan of the Apes” with Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, and Andie McDowell. Somehow the Disney one, although entertaining, just doesn’t “cut it” for me.
countrygirlxxoo almost 13 years ago
Almost all of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books are public domain now and are available free from Project Gutenberg as ebooks. http://www.gutenberg.org/
countrygirlxxoo almost 13 years ago
Oh, and stay FAR FAR AWAY from that Tarzan movie with Caspar Van Dien (Tarzan and the Lost City). shudders
snugharborman-catalog almost 13 years ago
You can download both Tarzan Of The Apes and The Return Of Tarzan at Project Gutenberg for free, BTW. EPUB for Nooks, or MOBI for Kindles, or just download as a text doc. if you don’t have an eReader. Many other ERB books there also, as well as hundreds of other authors who are now in the public domain. It’s a great site – give it a try. (They also have many of these in MP3 audio, but you may not care for the quality.)
Randyt8 almost 13 years ago
Tarzan was 13 months old when Kala adopted him. Tarzan also had contact with the black natives. Also, it took him awhile to be “civilized”.