tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post6353487206250807686..comments2024-03-28T20:02:32.693+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: Sheffield's Most Wanted. Part 5: Tarzan Limited Collectors' Edition.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-462190205793948582017-02-02T08:50:05.736+00:002017-02-02T08:50:05.736+00:00I now feel an overwhelming urge to watch Tarzan...I now feel an overwhelming urge to watch <i>Tarzan's Desert Mystery</i>. My main memory of it from childhood is of him being attacked by a man-eating plant and me being convinced he was doomed. I didn't quite understand that they're not going to kill Tarzan in his own film.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-21089609360804777812017-02-02T04:46:34.770+00:002017-02-02T04:46:34.770+00:00As noted above, Tarzan encountered dinosaurs in Pe...As noted above, Tarzan encountered dinosaurs in Pellucidar in "Tarzan at the Earth's Core," which Gold Key adapted in #179-181 (1968). He also visited a lost world with cave bears and saber-tooth tigers in #144 and #154. <br /><br />Ka-Zar was an obvious Tarzan swipe, as were Thunda, Ki-Gor, Jan of the Jungle, Kioga, and probably a dozen other pulp magazine and comic book heroes. And the Savage Land was an obvious swipe from Pellucidar. <br /><br />Weissmuller encountered dinosaurs in the movie "Tarzan's Desert Mystery," although they were just stock footage from "One Million B.C." (1940). <br /><br />In fact, everything Ka-Zar did, Tarzan had already done before. :)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-56579502424551031402011-09-21T14:20:35.573+01:002011-09-21T14:20:35.573+01:00In my little circle of friends, the Gold Key take ...In my little circle of friends, the Gold Key take on <i>Tarzan</i> seemed to dominate--even though the company had already ceased to publish the title by 1972. Still, there were old copies drifting about, courtesy of older friends and siblings. I still possess an extremely raggedy copy of #179 (1968): 'Tarzan at the Earth's Core' (the one with Tarzan in the claws of some gigantic Pteroldactyl he's discovered at Pellucidar--the 'inner Earth'). In my opinion, this far outclasses anything Marvel or DC did with the character in the '70s and early '80s.R. W. Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660716315419914578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-28536826228003822882011-09-18T21:45:36.045+01:002011-09-18T21:45:36.045+01:00Thanks, Joe. By the looks of it I'd have had g...Thanks, Joe. By the looks of it I'd have had great fun shooting that diorama with my UFO interceptor. I'm afraid any Dioramas I got my hands on always had a tendency to end up as target practice for it.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-18079364172412691212011-09-18T21:17:21.909+01:002011-09-18T21:17:21.909+01:00from what I can remember, Steve, it was a fairly a...from what I can remember, Steve, it was a fairly accurate adaptation ( at least, more accurate than most ), but it should be said that I read the comic way back when it first came out, and didn't get around to reading the book until I was in my 'twenties ( for what it's worth, almost ANY comics adaptation is better than the book, which bored the living daylights out of me! ).<br /><br />by the way, if you follow this link, you can check out what the Table-Top Diorama looked like ( it's the first of the Tarzan ones ). . .<br /><br />http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2011/08/dc-comics-table-top-dioramas.html<br /><br />cheers!joe ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654300765962440903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-52613749740505849172011-09-18T12:21:36.443+01:002011-09-18T12:21:36.443+01:00Hi, Joe. To this day I've still never read thi...Hi, Joe. To this day I've still never read this comic, so I don't know how faithful to the original Burroughs' tale Tarzan's origin is as promised on the cover. <br /><br />Then again I've never read the original Burroughs' tale either.<br /><br />I have heard a radio adaptation though.<br /><br />Then again, I don't know how faithful that was either. :(Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-17217360791120424072011-09-18T11:01:35.610+01:002011-09-18T11:01:35.610+01:00this is an awesome comic! I long ago misplaced my...this is an awesome comic! I long ago misplaced my own copy, and I've been meaning to get it again. if I remember rightly, isn't this the one where Joe Kubert adapts the first of the Tarzan novels? absolutely brilliant.joe ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654300765962440903noreply@blogger.com