Tarzan Adventures? Need Help.

[Slam_Bradley]

I've come across a book called Tarzan Adventures (online). It appears that it was published in the U.K. in the mid 50s. As best I can tell it reprints Tarzan strips (of some sort) in b & w. I'm having a hard time finding out what strips they reprinted and how big the books were.

Anyone in the U.K. know about these? Or anyone here collect them?

Much thanks for any help.

[Red Oak Kid]

This doesn't help much, but I see that Milehigh has a few issues with cover scans. Maybe the scans will jog someones memories. You can also see who the publisher is.

http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=85973800927&snumber=1

[Hintermann]

If going by tradition, these 'Tarzan Adventures' comics are likely to be reprints of newspaper strips by Russ Manning et al. The link below seems to be a good source. Send the guy an e-mail and check.

http://www.erbzine.com/comics/uk5.html

Also, read this extract from Wikipedia

Comic strips
Tarzan of the Apes was the first novel to be adapted in newspaper strip form, in early 1929, with illustrations by Hal Foster. A full page Sunday strip began March 15, 1931 by Rex Maxon. (Maxon drew the strips before and during WWII and so it is almost certain that these comics are reprodutions of those.)

Over the years, many artists have drawn the Tarzan comic strip, notably Burne Hogarth, Russ Manning, and Mike Grell. The daily strip 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 circa 2000. Both strips continue as reprints today in a few newspapers and in Comics Revue magazine.

The comic strip has often borrowed plots and characters from the Burroughs books. Writer Don Kraar, who wrote the strip from 1982 to 1995, included in his scripts David Innes and John Carter of Mars.


[edit] Comic books
Tarzan has appeared in many comic books from many publishers over the years.

Comic strip reprints were published in several titles, such as Sparkler, Tip Top Comics and Single Series.
Western Publishing published Tarzan in Dell Comics's Four Color Comics #134 & 161 in 1947, before giving him his own series, Tarzan #1-131 (Jan-Feb 1948 to July-August 1962), through Dell Comics (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 Gold Key Comics. This series featured artwork by Jesse Marsh, Russ Manning, and Doug Wildey, and included adaptions of most Tarzan novels through Tarzan and the Lion Men, as well as original stories and other features. Almost all of the Dell Comics Tarzan stories were written by Gaylord DuBois.

[Allan Harvey]

Tarzan Adventures featured reprints of the newspaper strip. They're slim, 20+ page comics in black and white, with dimensions a little larger than standard US size. For a while the editor was Michael Moorcock, who went on to create Elric among much else.

There were several attempts at Tarzan series here over the years. Gold Key themselves distributed a different series of reprints in the early-70s. A later go, in the late-70s, offered one of the great free gifts of all time with its first issue: a clear plastic bag; aka "a jungle survival kit"...

[TheHistorian]

Also more info/examples if you change the uk5 in that URL to uk1, uk2, uk3, etc. up to 9.

[Slam_Bradley]

Thanks a million for the info, guys. At 20 pages, or thereabouts, they probably aren't worth my pursuing.

[TheHistorian]

They are just about the only place to get the Maxon dailies reprinted. So I guess it would depend how much of a completist anyone wants to be.