Tarzan of the Apes

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice; Foster, Hal; Maxon, Rex

• ISBN13: 9781631402616
• ISBN10: 1631402617
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-30
• Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors

Summary

In January 1929, Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valiant, had his first published newspaper strip art with the debut of Tarzan, a comic that would produce more that ten thousand strips before switching to reprints in 1972. It was Foster who illustrated all 60 episodes of the strip's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's seminal novel, Tarzan of the Apes. Now, LOAC Essentials brings you all of Foster's first comics work, reproduced from ERB's syndicate proofs. In addition, this book includes adaptations of The Return of Tarzan, Beasts of Tarzan, and Son of Tarzan, each drawn by Rex Maxon. Get ready for the first 300 daily Tarzan comics ever produced, all together in a single, affordable package!

LOAC Essentials reprints the daily newspaper strips that are essential to comics history, in a format that preserves as closely as possible the original reader experience. By reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the experience of reading the comics one day at a time. Each volume contains seminal strips that are unique creations in their right and also contributed to the advancement of the medium, along with panel-by-panel annotations.

Author Biography

Hal Foster (1892-1982) was the creator of the Prince Valiant comic strip, which first appeared in February 1937 and continues to this day. Foster himself drew the strip until 1971, and continued to contribute stories and layouts for several years afterward. Foster also served as the artist for the debut of the Tarzan comic strip in 1929, adapting all of the original novel, Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Rex Maxon (1892-1973) is best known as the artist of the Tarzan daily comic strip, which he drew for over eighteen years, more than 5,200 strips. Between 1929 and 1947, Maxon drew 22 Tarzan story adaptions, including The Return of Tarzan and The Son of Tarzan. For brief periods he also scripted the strip and drew the larger, color Sunday strip as well. After leaving Tarzan in 1947, Maxon worked as a freelancer, predominantly on cowboy stories. Among his other work, he contributed to the first issue of Dell's Turok, Son of Stone.