Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Bys: Hogarth, Burne, Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Hodes, Robert M.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823025764
• ISBN13: 9780823025763
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 35 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Illustrated fiction

Having only seen copies of the artwork from this book, I can still say that it lives up to the reputation of the forerunner, Tarzan of the Apes, also illustrated by Burne Hogarth. the only disappointment is that it was printed in black & white, not full color as was the 1st volume.

This is a Tarzan graphic novel by Burne Hogarth

In 1972 Watson-Guptil published what is now considered the first contemporary graphic novel, "Tarzan of the Apes" with a text adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and art by Burne Hogarth. A large format hard cover book, it was pictorial fiction previously unseen in sequential art. Moreover, it was intended for an adult readership. Published in 11 languages, it proved influential in many creative fields. Other comic strip/book artists took note and tried their hand at this new format with mixed results. In 1972 Hogarth was a veteran of the comic strip, having drawn the Sunday "Tarzan" for the newspapers from 1937 to 1950. He was also an educator, the founder of the New York School of Visual Arts, and an author of anatomy books for artists that are now standards around the world (witness the recent Kong issue of Wired - it's Hogarth's drawings all over the wall behind the CG artists). After having trained most of the Silver Age comic artists at his school, Hogarth reapproached the Lord of the Jungle. The results are the definitive vision of the Ape Man, the point at which Renaissance fine art finally meshes with dynamic movement and a pop culture medium. Hogarth completed his Tarzan work with Jungle Tales in 1976, the pinnacle of 20th Century sequential art. His use of hidden images and negative space imagery are brilliant details in page design concepts that are far beyond other comic art. It is sheer beauty and grace that pervades this book, resulting in a profound visual expression. These stories of Tarzan's young adulthood are explorations of humanity's questions of existence and are as relevant now as when Burroughs first wrote the novel in 1919.

JUNGLE TALES: ERB at His Best & Worst

When Tarzan became a household world, readers of Edgar Rice Burroughs began to pester him to write about a more personalized, more gossipy side of the apeman. ERB obliged his fans by writing a dozen stories that detail his growing up in Africa during his teenage years. In JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN, ERB portrays a Tarzan that might have fit in well in any number of television sitcoms or domestic dramas. This Tarzan shows a side to his development that is only hinted at in the events of the first novel of the series, TARZAN ON THE APES, in whose events it runs concurrently.Many of the same themes and plot devices that run through the entire series are explored here, several of which show ERB at his literary best and worst. Plotting and pacing are ERB's strongpoints. He constantly captures the interest of his readers with exotic yet believable storylines. Yet, his insistence on coincidence to make his plots mesh combined with more than a touch of blatant racism intrude to the point that if ERB published his books today, a formidable array of political correctness would howl for his scalp.The first story, "Tarzan's First Love," describes a teenage Tarzan who has a love crush on a lovely gorilla female named Teeka. Tarzan declares his love for her, and battles a childhood chum for her favors. By the story's end, Tarzan recognizes the genetic differences and reluctantly gives her up. What is of interest here, is the psychological battle that he goes through. More than once, ERB mentions the impact that Kala, Tarzan's foster ape mother, has had on Tarzan, an impact that endures throughout the entire series. There is a strong Oedipal undercurrent as Tarzan compares the love for Teeka with that of his love for the deceased Kala.In several of the stories, ERB describes blacks in such a manner that he constantly harps on what he sees as their physical, emotional, and intellectual shortcomings. In "The Capture of Tarzan," the apeman singlehandedly fights off more than fifty black cannibals. In "Tarzan and the Black Boy," ERB is unabashedly racist as he notes, "Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not, the blacks only a little." Tarzan often baits blacks in this book and others by killing them at random or playing gruesome jokes on them. In "A Jungle Joke," ERB explicity suggests the low intelligence of the cannibal blacks by making it seem as if Tarzan could metamorphosize himself into a lion at will. If racist themes turned off some readers, other more universal ones attracted generations of readers. When Tarzan was not involved in the day to day affairs of the reality of jungle life, his human side forced him into a philosophical contemplation of the mysteries of the universe. In "The God of Tarzan," the apeman attempts the age-old human quest for the meaning of life. He attempts to track down God in the same way that he would follow the spoor of a wounded deer. In "Tarzan Rescues the Moon," T

A collection of ERB short stories on Tarzan's early days

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is the sixth volume in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and pretty much goes back to the beginning for a collection of short stories set in the time when Tarzan still lived among the great apes. Tarzan has learned how to read from the books he has found and it is opening his young mind to new questions, like where do dreams come from and where he can confront Goro, the supreme being that is the moon. There is also the love triangle between Tarzan, his first love Teeka, and their rival Taug, as well as his adventures tormenting the people of the local Mbonga tribe. "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is actually a nice companion volume to the original "Tarzan of the Apes," provide more depth and detail to the early years of the Lord of the Jungle. It also marks a coda to what we would now consider the original story arc of the Tarzan novels. Burroughs would write another 21 Tarzan novels but they would become increasingly formulaic. In many ways this is the last time we would see the original Tarzan; you can think of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" as sort of being the "deleted scenes" from the original "Tarzan of the Apes" novel.