Customer Reviews:
Nice book........2007-10-01
A very nice book. It is a very wide ranging overview regarding the creation of the musical. The books value was in its photographs. The actual text was fairly superficial. As a fan I would have enjoyed more details regarding the performers, more stories and quotes from the various creative principals.
Awesome.......2007-08-04
I love this book. It's arrived before I was expecting.
Also, better price than at the theater.
Book Description
Scheduled for release in June 1999, Disneys newest animated film, Tarzan, is eagerly awaited by movie fans everywhere. This colourful adaptation of a Hollywood favourite tells the story of a young man raised by apes in the African jungle who must find his place in the world of men, or the world of animals. A phenomenal line-up of stars in the film features the voices of Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan, Minnie Driver as Jane, Glenn Close as Kala, as well as Rosie ODonnell, Nigel Hawthorne, Wayne Knight, and Lance Henriksen.
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great book.......2006-03-25
great book. arrived in excellent condition in good time.
thanks.
THIS ODYSSEY OF DISNEY'S TARZAN IS AS GOOD AS THE MOVIE ITSELF.......2005-09-21
I don't know if I'll ever get over this movie - especially if I keep running across books like this one. It is nicely designed, intelligently organized, and chock-full of pre-production art, journal entries, productions stills, photographs and stories of how the film came to be. If you think the movie is incredible, wait until you learn all the behind the scenes stuff. This book chronicles that odyssey in wonderful detail.
Did you know the Tarzan character was animated in Paris, while the rest of the film was being animated in Burbank, California? Supervising animator Glen Keane (arguably the top animator in the field) was living in Paris with his family when directors Kevin Lima and Chris Buck approached him with the offer to supervise the animation of the adult version of Tarzan. One of his stipulations for coming on board was that he be able to stay in Paris and work with the Disney Animation Studio there. Meanwhile, back in Burbank, an entirely different team of animators was working on the rest of the film. The two studios used a computer system called "Scene Machine" to correspond with each other and coordinate characters in the same scene over the 6,000-mile distance.
Keane's journal, sketches, thoughts, stories and photos offer amazing insight into his real-life adventure animating Tarzan. Here's just a taste, from one of his journal entries: "Worked on `Strangers Like Me' sequence. The process is never easy - particularly for this song - at first the route was to teach Tarzan to speak - but it has evolved into Tarzan's quest for knowledge. I went on my own quest - reading books on Einstein's Theory of Relativity - and books explaining physics and great scientific discoveries as in astronomy. I am in awe of the universe and God's perfect design clearly displayed in its breadth and beauty. Tarzan must be in awe and wonder. Joy of discovery. He must have an insatiable thirst to know. The audience should feel the same joy as Tarzan. They should enjoy watching him discover."
Here's another one that sends chills down my spine: "My mind was churning on the scenes I'd been seeing with the animators this morning - and it struck me how real Tarzan is to me. He is not a drawing or even an animated character. He is a living personality with character traits, personal habits and a body language all his own. I could almost see him before me. He is real yet invisible living in my imagination, which is a very real place to inhabit." Good stuff.
The book is probably one third text and two-thirds pictures. It's divided into seven sections, each named after a Phil Collins song from the movie, plus introduction and acknowledgements. Glen Keane's story is just one of many chronicled in the book. If you're a fan of the Tarzan stories, love Disney animation, or are interested in the art of animation in general, you've got to have this book.
Waitsel Smith
great art of book.......2005-04-26
The Art of Tarzan has eveything you'd expect in an art of animation book. The book is filled with characters sketches, background art, interesting making of notes, storyboards, great art by John Watkis, and the amazing Glen Keane.
I like how they went with a pure hardback sans dustjacket book design which is different from previous Art of Disney bboks.
visually amazing!.......2004-02-27
When I recieved this book I couldnt believe how much work was infront of me. Thankyou Disney for a wonderful addition to the "art of" books.
Incredible Book!!!.......2001-06-08
I am a student of animation and have enjoyed the art form for a long time. This has led me to collect just about every "Art of" animation book ever published (much to my wife's dismay), but this one is clearly one of the best.
First of all, the visuals are fantastic (as they should be for this type of book). Glen Keane is a master, and any insight into his conceptual art and rough sketches are a real treat! However there is so much more than I have seen jammed into one of these books in quite some time. Sure, other books have storyboards, character development drawings, conceptual art, model sheets, backgrounds, production art, etc., but the quality and quantity of the art in this book is top-notch.
Second, Howard Green does a nice job with the textual additions too. The inclusion of diary / journal entries written during the film's production was also a masterful touch, and really added to the overall "behind the scenes" feeling of the book.
Finally, the production quality of the book itself is impressive. The organization is clean (considering the amount of content involved), the two-page spreads and fold-outs are very nice, and the little things (such as the paper choice for each section introduction) provide an added touch. A fine addition to anyone's library.
Certainly, if you like the movie (or any animated feature), you will cherish this book. I highly recommend it!
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Joe Kubert's Tarzan was one of the rare collaborations between character and artist that now seem definitive regardless of how many other talented creators try their hand--think also Curt Swan's Superman, Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four, and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan. Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years, vol. 1 collects the first eight issues of Kubert's run as writer-illustrator-letterer in 1972, encompassing Tarzan 207-214. Most significant is the first four issues, which Kubert used for an engrossing adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. After this telling, the remaining four issues seem rather slight, but Kubert's dramatic art and stories are never less than interesting. Dark Horse's beautiful volume includes Tatjana Wood's original colors restored, and a new introduction by Kubert himself. --David Horiuchi
Book Description
Few artists can capture visceral action sequences and the dynamic human form like Joe Kubert, and his expressive talents are fully realized in his 1970s Tarzan comics. This beautiful archive collection - with an introduction by Kubert and color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors - is a must-have for fans of timeless adventure tales and Joe Kubert's undeniable intensity and skill. Beginning with this first volume, Dark Horse's hardcover series reprints Kubert's entire Tarzan work. Join us on these primal adventures, as Tarzan discovers the pleasures and perils of the African wilds... and the many dangers posed by both man and beast! Joe Kubert's Tarzan, Volume One, reprints issues #207 through #214 of the 1970s run, featuring "Origin of the Ape Man" (a bold adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel), "Jungle Tales of Tarzan," and other stories inspired by Burroughs' books - all written and drawn by the legendary Joe Kubert!
Customer Reviews:
Tarzan the Timeless!.......2007-08-24
This wonderful collection of legendary artist and storyteller, Joe Kubert is a must have for hardcore Tarzan fans. I cut my teeth on these comics way back in the early 70's as a young boy.(I still have all of the original editions!)
There are only a few number of artists that could truly capture the primitive and primordal great Tarzan. Only Neal Adams, Russ Manning and the late great Conan artist, John Buscema could actually draw the apeman.
But Joe Kubert had a style all of his own. With backgrounds and rough-like sketches that made Tarzan and the jungle around him actually permeate right through the comic pages, Kubert could totally transport you to Africa and high adventure of yesteryear. Classic in every sense of the word.
Thank God for Joe Kubert. And his sons have also become fantastic artists all their own.
Now, if only ONE Hollywood movie could finally capture the true essence of Tarzan the Apeman, then the Tarzan phenomenon would begin all over again. Perhaps someday...
Joe Kubert's faithful adaptation of "Tarzan of the Apes" for DC Comics.......2006-08-01
Way back in 1929 Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" was adapted in newspaper comic strip form by illustrator Hal Foster. A full-page Sunday strip began in 1931 drawn by Rex Mason, and since then Burne Hogarth, Russ Manning, and Mike Grell have been some of the big names that have drawn the Lord of the Jungle. The only problem is that I never lived anywhere that had Tarzan in the Sunday comics, so for me Joe Kubert is THE artist that I associate with Tarzan. By the time Kubert's took over the book with issue #207 of "Tarzan of the Apes" (April 1972), I had read all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, so even though I was only buying Marvel comics at that time when I saw the 1st DC issue with its 52 BIG pages ("Don't take less! Only 25c), I picked it up and Kubert's faithful four-part adaptation of the first ERB novel sold me on the comic. After all, not only did you have the first 26-page part of the adaptation, but an introduction to ERB in "The Dum-Dum" (written by "Marvin Wolfman"), which would be the book's letters page, an adaptation of "Tarzan's First Christmas" from Hall Foster's December 27, 1931 Sunday strip, and the first chapter of an adaptation of ERB's "A Princess of Mars" starring John Carter by Murray Anderson. What more could an ERB fan possibly hope for in one comic book?
What we have in "Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years, Volume 1" are the Kubert's first eight issues, #207-14. Prior to this time I had associated Kubert with his work on "Sgt. Rock," but his distinctive style was perfect for Tarzan. The story begins with a safari being attacked by a panther and Tarzan showing up out of nowhere to save a pretty young blond woman in a pith helmet. Her guide then tells the story of "The Origin of Tarzan of the Apes," starting in 1888 when a ship left Dover, England, with John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, and his wife Lady Alice. The first chapter covers the birth of Tarzan, the death of his parents, how he came to be raised by Kala of the great apes, and his battle to the death with Bolgani, his rival in the tribe. "A Son's Vengeance" (#208) is where Tarzan learns to read and that he is not an ape but a "man," and avenges the death of Kala when she is killed by a "hairless ape." "A Mate for the Ape-Man" (#209) begins with Tarzan defeating Kerchak and Terkoz, before leaving the tribe to find his destiny as a man. This is where we pick up the story with Jane Porter, her father Professor Porter, her fiance William Clayton (Tarzan's cousin), and the rest of their abandoned expedition, up to the point where Tarzan rescues Jane from Terkoz. "Civilization" (#210) finds Tarzan spending some quality time with Jane, but then rescuing D'Arnot from the natives and finally learning how to speak French (he already reads and writes in English). In the end he tracks down in America, learns she is about to be married to William and his own true identity as the real Lord Greystoke, and refuses to ruin her future.
Kubert is faithful to the action and the dialogue, such as Tarzan's final line, and does not have a problem drawing the young Tarzan as running around naked (drawn strategically, of course) until the point in the story where he gets his first loin cloth. The pace of the story really picks up in the final part: the first three sections covered the first 156 pages of my paperback edition of "Tarzan of the Apes," while the fourth chapter covers 89 pages (I have the page numbers written on the back covers of my original comic books). But since the whole last section is about Tarzan NOT getting Jane, while getting educated so that he finally speaks English too, there is not a lot of real action after the opening pages. The framing device of the guide and the blonde is finally resolved (no, she is not Jane, just another white woman who has lost her father in the jungles of Africa), and allows Tarzan to make the point that the jungle is more civilized than the real world. So the set up for the comic book is not Tarzan and Jane, but the time before our hero gets domesticated. This makes sense since ERB regretted the relationship between Tarzan and Jane (he thought La, High Priestess of Opar was a better match), and even killed Jane off at one point in the series.
The other four issues contained here suffer by comparison, but then anything would. "Land of the Giants" (#211) involves an evil little man named Kalban and the Kolosans, a race of giants. The little guy drinks their forbidden water and grows to be a giant as well, but by the time you get to the end of this one, where Tarzan battles a monster giant gorilla on top of a flying airplane, you are praying Kubert will get back to ERB's original stories. That happens with "The Captive" (#212) and the next two issues after that, all of which are taken from the "Jungle Tales of Tarzan," which happens in the same time frame as the first half of the first novel. This one features a great cover of Tarzan taking down a rhinoceros, and the story is about how the natives capture Tarzan and he calls Tantor on them. "Balu of the Great Apes" (#213) is a nice little story about Tarzan protecting a balu (baby) of his tribe and finding his place as their leader. "The Nightmare" (#214) is the story of what happens the first time Tarzan eats cooked meat and it disagrees with his stomach. So, except for that non-ERB inspired story in #211, this is a solid collection of Kubert doing Burroughs. I would not say that it is downhill from here, but rather than things are never as geaat as this awesome start.
Yes! At long last a superb collection!.......2006-03-21
This is a book for which I've waited decades, having grown up on the Kubert DC books. Very well made and edited, this collection of DC Tarzan issues would go along quite well on the shelf with DC's Archive books. Whether you are a Tarzan fan or an afficianado of DC's Silver Age, you would do well to check out this book. Of course, if you are a fan of both, I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and you have already acquired this wonderful edition Dark Horse has offered us. Buying this was a no brainer, and my only question was why it took so long to get published, when the Manning stuff had already been reprinted years ago. If only those had been released in a volume as beautiful as this! Perhaps it's not too late to get the Horse to release the Hal Foster strips in a similar fashion to this Kubert collection. Are you listening, DH?
Tarzan like you've never seen him before.......2006-03-18
Tarzan like you've never seen him is expanded upon and portrayed in living color by dynamic graphic artist Joe Kubert, who produces a vivid set of tales and provides archived drawings with color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors. This collection reprints the first eight issues of Joe Kubert's classic Tarzan comic series: works done at the height of his career. Two audiences will relish this collection and must own it: Kubert fans, and Tarzan fans. Each will find the full-color presentation provides high-quality reproduction and an uninterrupted set of adventures. Very highly recommended: a classic keepsake.
Outstanding.......2006-01-23
The four part adaptation of the first Tarzan novel was well written and well drawn and Kubert's love of the source material is evident.
The writing and art are so fluid and vibrant that these stories seem as though they were published last year and not more than thirty years ago. The adaptations are strong and detailed, and hold up much better than the more abreviated adaptations of Robert E. Howard's Conan story adaptations for Marvel, done around the same time.
I would point out that the four part adaptation is something rare for a comic book from the 1970's, which generally kept to a two part story at the longest, so Joe was allowed plenty of breathing space to do justice to the original book.
I don't understand the $50 price tag on DC's (and now Darkhore's) archive editions. THe price seems so exesssive for such a small offering of 200+ pages. One wishes Darkhorse could have added a few more issues into this volume, but worth the cover price regardless.
Customer Reviews:
Three novellas for the final Tarzan novel from ERB.......2003-02-23
"Tarzan and the Castaways" is really a collection of three novellas regarding the Lord of the Apes written in 1940-1941 by Edgar Race Burroughs. This was essentially the 24th and final Tarzan book and takes it title from the first and longest of the three stories. Tarzan is stranded on one of those uncharted Pacific islands with a colorful collection of English aristocrats, a Dutch officer, and Janette Laon, the beautiful French companion of big game hunter Fritz Krause. Going back to the beginning of the series in one respect, the castaways end up on the island when the crew of the "Saigon" mutinies (which is how Tarzan's parents ended up stranded in Africa way back when). Meanwhile, the castaways also have to deal with a lost colony of Mayans who are always looking for new human sacrifices. If Tarzan was not there, all of these people would be dead meat, but although he might have second thoughts about some of them, Tarzan does save the day.
"Tarzan and the Champion" has Lord Greystoke encountering "One-Punch" Mullargan, the heavyweight champion of the world, and his manager Joey Marks. Tarzan has Nkima the little monkey on his side, so the champ does not stand a chance in this little one-joke trifle from ERB. Finally, "Tarzan and the Jungle Murders" continues the basic formula, albeit with a nod towards world events as the references to the "Great Man" in the story turn out to be about Benito Mussolini. The story is simple: there is a downed English plane and a RAF colonel, the American inventor of an ignition disruptor device, a Russian exile, cannibals, and a safari of yet more English aristocrats. Think of this one as "Clue" set in the jungle with Tarzan trying to figure out who did in who and whey (how, when and where are always obvious).
"Tarzan and the Castaways" is a collection of minor efforts by Edgar Rice Burroughs, to be read by the Tarzan fan out of a sense of completeness once everything else has been devoured (including the juvenile effort, "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins"). The formula here was certainly tried and true once upon a time, but after two dozens novels is now tried and tired.
Book Description
Writing, drawing and editing a monthly Tarzan comic-book series in the 1970s, Joe Kubert was able to illustrate the adventures of his childhood hero and produce some of the most inspiring pages of his career. Dark Horse Books is proud to present this final collection in a series of Joe Kubert's complete Tarzan comics. Joe Kubert's Tarzan Volume Three features an incredible, four-part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1934 adventure novel, Tarzan and the Lion Man. Tarzan attempts to protect two beautiful actresses and a Hollywood production crew from the many dangers lurking in Africa's jungles... and from a deranged geneticist who calls himself "God." This volume also includes six pages of Kubert's original Tarzan notes and thumbnails from the early 1970s, the Tarzan stories "Moon Beast," "The Magic Herb," and "Ice Jungle," and a Korak, Son of Tarzan, tale, "Leap into Death," which was inked by Russ Heath.
Customer Reviews:
Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volume 3 (Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years).......2007-03-25
The book came in the mail quickly.
The only problem was that the jacket of the book was a little crumbled.
Joe Kubert jumps ahead to an adaptation of "Tarzan and the Lion Man" for Volume 3.......2006-08-04
The good news is that for Volume 3 of "Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years," editor-writer-artist Joe Kubert adapts another one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels. The bad news is that it is not one of my favorites. "Tarzan and the Lion Man" was the 17th of the Tarzan novels and while it afforded the opportunity for ERB to lash back at what Hollywood did to his creation, the story has to do with an actor who is a Tarzan look-alike and talking apes that talk English. This one is a lot more like ERB's science fiction stories than his usual jungle adventures for the Lord of the Jungle, and while it is a faithful adaptation, it is not one of ERB's best. Volume three includes issues #224, #226-235 (#226 was an issue illustrated by Russ Manning), and while there are plenty of good stories here, this collection does not have anything great enough to justify rounding up this time like I did with the previous volume:
But before we get to the adaptation there are a bunch of one-shot stories: "Moon Beast" (#225), with one of my favorite Kubert covers (a cobra coming out of the eye socket of a skull), finds a strange creature terrorizing the village of B'tunga. Zohar, the medicine man, tries to convince chief Mengo that Tarzan is the Moon Beast. The trial to find out consists of Tarzan being tossed in the viper pit, but that is not exactly how things work out. "Ice Jungle" (#227) has Tarzan decided to be the unseen guardian for you Tulum, the son of Chief Zama, who must go the ice jungle and return with the necklace of fire. Along the way they run into J. Pellington Stone, III, a rich kid sent on safari by his father to become a man, and a tribe of snow apes. "Trial by Blood" (#228) is a bad day for Tarzan. The vine he is swinging on breaks and drops him in front of a saber-tooth tiger, and then he is captured by a tribe of pygmies that want to sacrifice him to a terrible lizard. "The Game" (#229) begins with Tarzan playing a practical joke on some of his great apes, and then becoming part of a more deadly game by Zorina, the albino queen who wants the pale-skinned Tarzan (which is "white skin" in the language of the great apes) to do her evil bidding. Fat chance, lady. After a little introduction of Tarzan musing about one day having a son, "Leap Into Death" (#230) tells a story of Korak, the son of Tarzan, pencilled by Kubert but inked by Russ Heath (if you did not ee the credit you would never think it was Kubert's pencils).
Then we get to the featured story of Volume 3, a multi-part adaptation of ERB's novel "Taran and the Lion-Man." Part One (#231) begins with Tarzan rescuing Stanley Obroski from Hollywood, U.S.A., who was taken by narratives when filming "Lion Man" in the jungles. Obroski not only plays the title character, he looks a lot like Tarzan, which is going to come into play in this story. Meanwhile, the women of the film, female lead Naomi Madison and stand-in Rhonda Terry, have been captured by El-Ghrennem, who thinks the fake map from the movie will actually lead to the Valley of Diamonds. Part Two (#232) has the women captures by apes that speak English and are ruled by an insane English scientist who thinks he is god. At this point everybody thinks that Tarzan is Stanley, so the women are really going to be impressed by him, but really surprised too. Part Three (#233) is the out of the frying pan and into the fire as we go from "God" and his talking apes threatening the damsels in distress to a blonde-haired wild man. Part Four (#234) wraps up the story and gets to the ironic ending for poor Stanley Obroski. Finally we have "The Magic Herb" (#235), where Tarzan rescues a brother and sister, Tommy and Gail, whose small plane crashes in the jungle. Tommy is a victim of a rare disease and they are looking for a medicinal herb that grows somewhere in this area of Africa. The next thing we know there are lizard people standing between them and the flower, and there is something about the siblings that makes them seem untrustworthy.
FANTASTIC 3RD VOLUME OF CLASSIC KUBERT.......2006-07-25
Joe Kubert has worked on a myriad of titles throughout his fifty plus years in the comic book industry but he's perhaps best remembered for his legendary work on Hawkman. However if you had to press me to pick my favorite Kubert work I'd have to say it was his work on Tarzan for DC comics in the 1970's. Kubert continued on a proud legacy of great artists on Tarzan that included Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth. Kubert may even be considered the definitive Tarzan artist. His work was ingrained with a sense of wonder and adventure that was also notable in his Hawkman work. Kubert seemed born to draw Tarzan. His style was so powerful and dynamic--a perfect fit for the "Lord of the Jungle".
This is the third volume reprinting Kubert's classic work and published by Dark Horse Comics. This volume, in archive format, features issues #225, and 227 - 235 of the Tarzan series from DC Comics from 1973 to 1975. Kubert is the writer, artist, and letterer on all of the stories. A true one man army! In issue #225, the B'Tunga tribe is plagued by the Moonbeast that comes during the night, killing the villagers. The tribe's medicine man Zohar blames Tarzan for the killings, hoping to gain control of the tribe from the current chieftain.
Issue #227 features "The Ice Jungle". A young warrior must prove his manhood by undergoing a rite that will take him to the mysterious Ice Jungle in search of the Necklace of Fire. Tarzan follows along to make sure the young man is safe.
Issue #228, "Trial by Fire" finds Tarzan capture by a race of Pygmy warriors. Tarzan and two Pygmy maidens are taken to an area outside of a great wall, much like the one from King Kong, to be sacrificed to the beast, a dinosaur like creature. Obviously influenced by "King Kong".
Issue #230 was the first of a run of 100 issue spectaculars that DC ran in most of it's books around 1974 & 1975. It was one of my favorite DC eras. These 100 page books contained a main story, a back-up feature, and also two or three golden age reprints of characters like Congo Bill and Detective Chimp. Of course, those are not reprinted in this Archive edition, but they are still great issues if you can find them. The book does reprint a story of Korak, Son of Tarzan with art by Kubert and Russe Heath.
Issues 231 - 234 reprint an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story "Tarzan & the Lion Man". Tarzan meets an actor who looks remarkably like him who is in Africa to shoot a film where he plays the Lion Man. This vast, 78 page tale features a race of talking, intelligent apes and a blonde-haired jungle man that challenges Tarzan in a battle to the death! Wonderful story.
Kubert again provides an introduction to this volume. Simply magnificent! We should all bow down to Dark Horse for reprinting these fabulous stories!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Book Description
Based on the megahit animated film, this high-flying family sensation from Disney soars on Broadway! Our PVG songbook features 14 songs from Phil Collins, including the Oscar and Grammy -winning favorites "You'll Be in My Heart" and "Two Worlds." Contains an eight-page section of stunning full-color photos from the production.
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Joe Kubert's superb run on Tarzan in the early 1970s continues its superb (though expensive) reprint series from Dark Horse. Volume 2 encompasses issues 215-224, all written and illustrated by Kubert (except for partial issues pencilled by Hal Foster and Frank Thorne) with even greater confidence than the issues captured in volume 1. Man's inhumanity, either to his fellow man or to nature, is a common theme in issues such as "The Renegades," in which a band of thieves masquerades as Africans in order to loot treasure from the City of the Dead, or "The Trophy," in which a big-game hunter finds the tables turned. The centerpiece of the volume, just as it was with volume 1, is a multi-issue adaptation of an original Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. The Return of Tarzan is a sweeping five-issue saga in which Tarzan, in order to dispel the memory of Jane Porter, travels to Paris and then to the Algerian desert, continually crossing paths with the villainous Nicholas Rokoff. Eventually he travels to the fabled forbidden city of Opar, where he meets the high priestess La, a plot line that Kubert continued in an original story in the last issue of this volume. --David Horiuchi
Book Description
A stunning, five-part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan highlights this archival collection, which reprints Joe Kubert's Tarzan comics, issues #215 through #224. With color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors, this beautiful hardcover is a must-have for fans of pulse-pounding adventure tales and students of the graphic narrative. Writing, drawing and editing a monthly Tarzan comic-book series in the 1970s, Joe Kubert was able to illustrate the adventures of his childhood hero and produce some of the most engaging pages of his career. Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volume 2, also includes "Death is My Brother," "The Renegades," "The Black Queen" and other dynamic stories inspired by Burroughs' classic books.
Customer Reviews:
SUPERB KUBERT REPRINTS CONTINUE!.......2006-05-26
The second volume collecting the Tarzan comics of Joe Kubert reprints issues 215 - 224 of the run originally published by National Periodical Publications AKA DC Comics. Although DC comics is never named and even the DC logo has been removed off the cover reprints. The legendary Joe Kubert not only drew the books, but he wrote, edited, and even lettered most of them himself...talk about a one man band! Kubert was born to draw Tarzan. Clearly his earlier work on Hawkman in the golden age showed be had the technique to handle high adventure and action and he doesn't disappoint. His distinctive, fluid style lends itself to Tarzan's power and grace. As mentioned, Kubert illustrated all of the stories in this collection with the exception of issue number 216 that was handled by Frank Thorne, best known for his work on Marvel's Red Sonja.
The highlight of this book is the five part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story, "The Return of Tarzan." This was Burroughs' second Tarzan novel that first saw print way back in 1915 in the pages of New Story Magazine. This global-spanning adventure stretches from Paris, to Algeria and back to Africa where Tarzan has to rescue Jane from the primitives of the Lost City of Opar. Kubert's adaptation was very faithful to the original story.
Other stories in this volume include:
"The Mine", where Tarzan encounters a group of slavers who are forcing the natives to work in mines against their will. Tarzan demands the slaves be freed but soon he's overwhelmed and finds himself trapped in the mines with the rest of the slaves and has to lead them on a harrowing escape.
In "The Renegades" a group of white men disguise themselves as African natives to stage a brutal attack on a missionary hospital to steal supplies. The men are treasure hunters out to loot the tomb of a lost city and Tarzan is out for revenge. "Renegades" contains some Indiana Jones type elements in a story that was written many years before "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was release.
"The Trophy" finds a wealthy big game hunter who journeys to Africa to appease his boredom. He recklessly hunts and kills several animals and then sets his sights on Tarzan's black lion companion Numa. But Tarzan soon turns the tables and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Kubert provides an introduction to the book and gives the reader some valuable insight into the development of the stories. The book also provides a brief biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Outstanding work! This is the essence of pure adventurism and one of literature's most beloved characters. Many thanks go to Dark Horse Comics for keeping this material in print for a new generation of fans to enjoy.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
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First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty."
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Born of noble parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to survive. As he matures, his strength and agility develop to match those of the beasts that surround him, yet he realizes that he is different.
He combines higher intelligence, superhuman strength and his jungle training to become the unconquerable Lord of the Jungle! But, when a group of civilized people invade his paradise, his life is changed forever, for with them is Jane. She is the first woman Tarzan has ever seen and he must have her as his own! How can this uncivilized ape-man hope to win her? Tarzan Series #1
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-04
A sterling tale of tragedy and heroism. An English pair are abandoned in Africa. Not long after the child is left alone, and he is raised by a tribe of semi-sentient Apes, and must learn to compete with them to stay alive.
Such an upbringing builds one of the great and most influential heroes we have had.
5 stars until last chapter.......2007-07-30
Pissed Off! That's how I felt during the ending. I couldn't believe the book ended the way it did. I know the story goes on to a part 2, but man! All of Tarzan's wasted efforts at the end, all his hopes and dreams... I couldn't help but feel strong disappointment and think that Jane is the most stupid woman on planet Earth.
Get the first two volumes in the series.......2007-07-02
An excellent adventure story. There's not much I can add to other peoples' praise for this story. I would recommend getting "The Return of Tarzan" also, as the first two volumes of the series complete one main story. I also recommend getting a complete and unabridged version.
Tarzan swings to life.......2007-01-11
Tarzan is not politically correct, is anthropologically naive, is just short of racist, sexist and a certain fantasy. In the end, none of that matters. Tarzan is the hereo upon which all attention centers, and that is how it should be. Edgar Rice Burrough's classic pulp fiction work reads nearly as strongly today as it did almost a hundred years ago. So what if his "apes" never really existed (although, one is tempted to think of them as some lost tribe of giant Australopithcines, improperly classified and then rendered extinct before they could be correctly classified. Borroughs was writing at the start of the sixth great age of extinctions, after all). Sparing in his prose, as many victorian writers were, Borroughs manages to stir the imagination to treetop heights and we really care what happens to the orphan Tarzan as he becomes a man. Tarzan's initiation into the world of Western man is perhaps more unbelievable than his more gradual and much earlier settling into the ape world, and less satisfying. We lose Tarzan when we lose the "ape-man" but his devotion to the comely Jane is genuine and compelling. In short, go Tarzan!
A note on the booksurge volume: it had a mistake in paragraphing almost certainly not in the original, inconsistent page breaks between chapters, and a back cover blurb which was literally a non-sensical half-sentence. There was no bio of the author or even previous publishing credits. This classic author deserves much better.
A Timeless Classic!!.......2006-12-17
I cut my teeth in the 60's and 70's reading Tarzan comics, which then segued to the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. And I am glad that I did!
After watching numerous old Tarzan movies and comic books, (which were way better than any movie or cartoon ever made!), the novels breathed more life into the much mishandled Tarzan legend. Burroughs wrote so well, that the jungle came alive, and you can actually believe that a human babay can be raised by wild apes.
And now, after all of these long, long, years, since the original novel was written, (1914), finally perhaps a modern-day filmaker will bring the REAL Tarzan to living, breathing life, as it should have been a long time ago. With the hopeful usage of modern CGI, Tarzan can be like Spiderman, truly seen for the first time on film as it is in the books.
If you have watched the old and new movies, including the Disney cartoon - then you don't have a clue as to the REAL Tarzan! If this big filmaker director sticks with the original books, or somehow makes it better, like Peter Jackson did for King Kong - then Tarzan will be the biggest blockbuster hit ever!
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Tarzan had renounced his right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure for him. After a brief and harrowing period among men, he turned back to the African jungle where he had grown to manhood. It was there he first heard of Opar, the city of gold, left over from fabled Atlantis.
It was a city of hideous men -- and of beautiful, savage women, over whom reigned La, high priestess of the Flaming God. Its altars were stained with the blood of many sacrifices. Unheeding of the dangers, Tarzan led a band of savage warriors toward the ancient crypts and the more ancient evil of Opar . . .
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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs contains even more adventure, romance and enthralling action than Tarzan of the Apes. The New York Sun hailed it as, "High-adventure ? ten times better than Tarzan of the Apes."
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Super Reader.......2007-08-04
Tarzan decides it is best if he leaves Jane, and returns to Africa. He falls in with a couple of dodgy noble types, and ends up having some Arab adventures, joins the Waziri tribe, and eventually ends up reunited with Jane in Opar.
The only problem he has is that one of the powerful women of Opar wants his body, and is not too happy Jane has prior claims.
Revelation of his position, marriage and return eventuate.
It's a classic!.......2007-01-05
It was ordered for my daughter. When children show an interest in worthwhile reading, one doesn't hesitate to supply them with what they want.
TARZAN TAKES PARIS!.......2006-03-31
That's not the whole story of course but it's an impressive part of it. Tarz renounces his family name,fortune and the woman he loves, giving it all to his cousin, and he does it all in Wisconsin! Yup, Wisconsin. Hurting from the ordeal, he heads off to Paris to forget about Jane. Wow, the Apeman in the City of Lights! So he spends time in Paris, almost has an affair with a Russian noblewoman, whups on her brother(an evil Russian spy), hangs out in art galleries and operas and eventually joins the French Secret Service out of boredom. All this is just the set-up for the rest of the novel. The book does seem to end too quickly but I think that has more to do with the serial/pulp nature of the story's publication deadline than any fault of the author. Tarzan and The Return of... are an entertaining 0ne-Two punch. Anyone who reads #1 should finish the experience by reading #2. I wish someone would make a film of this book, it's more interesting than the first one.
Magnifique!.......2006-03-02
This was the second Tarzan novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It picks up right where the first Tarzan book left off. Jane is engaged to Tarzan's cousin and Tarzan is sailing back to Europe. Will Tarzan and Jane end up together? Of course, but there will be many obstacles before they get there. This is a solid adventure novel, which fans of old time pulp fiction will enjoy.
Treasured memories.......2005-12-04
When I was a kid (thirty years ago) my dad had an old beaten copy of this book that my three brothers and I readr, reread and probably took worse care of than we should have. I remember the cover vividly- Tarzan fighting a lion, but dressed in what would be considered traditional Arab garb. Every chapter had it's own illustration- THE TREASURE VAULTS OF OPAR featuring Tarzan leaping across a wide chasm!
I reread these books again in my teenage years and found this one to be my favorite. I think I enjoyed it even more than TARZAN OF THE APES.
The story begins with Tarzan crossing the Atlantic after leaving Jane and her family on a train platform in northern Wisconsin (a region of the world I call home) and meeting, not for the last time Rokoff and Paulvitch, two Russian spies who make it their life's goal to humiliate and destroy the Ape Man. Their first meeting includes Tarzan spoiling a plan to blackmail a Count and Countess who quickly become Tarzan's friends.
Later, in Paris, Rokoff and Paulvitch manipulate the Count into challenging Tarzan into a pistol duel, which Tarzan both wins and loses.
Tarzan arrives in Africa again later, ignominiously tossed off a liner by the two mad Russians. He swims ashore and is immediately in his element again.
Meanwhile, Jane and her father, along with Cecil Clayton (Jane's fiance') arrive ashore in Africa following a harrowing period on the ocean in a rowboat when their yacht founders.
Tarzan visits Opar, the fabled city of Atlantians where he dukes it out with savage men and the beautiful high priest, La.
How he and Jane reunite and Cecil's fate, as well as Tarzan claiming his birthright are all part of a story that you need to read to enjoy.
Is Burroughs the greatest writer of the 20th Century? Maybe not, but he is one of the premiere storytellers. This book is one of the most satisfying of the series. It also sets up many adventures in the next dozen, or so, books. La, Opar, Paulvitch and Rokoff are all revisited.
Take the trip- it's worth every second.
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Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond.
Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs’s stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer’s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer’s “Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke” as well as “Extracts from the Memoirs of ‘Lord Greystoke’” first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-07
This is great. Almost mind-boggling the effort that Farmer has put in, here. Try and find the men with grey eyes. :) G-8 became schizoid after a breakdown, becoming The Shadow and The Spider. That is just fabulous.
The House of Tarzan.......2007-05-26
Edgar Rice Burroughs put out 24 books on the adventures of Tarzan. I enjoyed most of these and would recommend them without a doubt. What we get here from Philip Jose Farmer is the 'biography' of Tarzan written as if he were an actual real person. The bio looks at ERB as a novelist given a 'based on actual events' type of writing with embellishments added when needed. PJF looks into the life of Tarzan and the novels letting you know what are 'true events of Tarzan's life' and what is 'completely made up by ERB'. The best part of this book is that PJF chronologically orders the multitude of books put forth by ERB which has always been a concern of the readers with the time frame inconsistencies.
PJF, using the Wold Newton Meteor theory also gives an extension of the Greystoke family tree to include the likes of Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, Doc Savage, James Wilder, Nero Wolfe and many many other literary characters. The addendums help to attempt to clarify this convoluted ancestory. I think an actual Family Tree Graph could have been included to help visualize the genology put forth which still gets a bit confusing after the addendum pieces. Addendum 5 is particularly nice as it goes through and again summarizes the timeline for Tarzan based events.
If you have the 24 Tarzan books, this is well worth including with them. After reading 'Tarzan Alive', you will have a different perspective on the ERB books should you reread them. A must for the Tarzan fan, but you may scoff at some of the things and people that PJF includes in this biography.
Good book... but..........2007-02-09
I greatly enjoyed the tales of Tarzan as presented in Tarzan Alive. The problem I have is this... I haven't read the original source material. I thought the Definitive Biography would include a real biography, when instead it often just contrasts events with the original stories. Thus, it would have been helpful if I had read all the original stories before delving into Tarzan Alive. That being said, this book was a very good read, and I look forward to someone reprinting Phillip Jose Farmer's His Apocalyptic Life so I can see the true life of Doc Savage as well. Thank you Bison Frontiers for helping me find this book that I had heard so much about!
Fun biography, even for casual fans of Tarzan and/or Farmer.......2006-10-05
Farmer's direct tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs is a fictional biography of Tarzan. It is probably not going to be interesting to those who have never read one of Burroughs' Tarzan books, but those who have will find "Tarzan Alive" a treasure of entertainment. It is nice to see that this book has returned to print, being an important reader's guide to the most famous fictional character of the 20th century.
It would be very easy to dismiss the Tarzan books as simple entertainment saturated with ignorant descriptions of Africa. Farmer takes on the task of making the reader regard Burroughs more seriously, by insisting the Tarzan is a real person and Burroughs a biographer. All the inaccuracies and obvious fiction are attempts by Burroughs to protect the still-living Tarzan. Farmer never uses a cheap "you're in on the joke" device and saturates the book with meticulous research. Instead of annoyance, the errors in Burroughs' narratives becoming interesting in their own right: soon the reader is drawn into Farmer's quest for the "real" story behind the Tarzan books. Burroughs' theme of the nature of man vs. nurture by man's environment is more appreciated. Farmer insists that he has interviewed the Ape-man himself, and this edition contains that interview.
This is a nice companion to any of the Burroughs Tarzan books, and a key to appreciating Farmer's own Tarzan-spired fiction ("Lord Tyger," "Dark Heart of Time," the Opar books, etc.).
Uniquel!.......2006-08-19
"Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" is out-of print and so is "Doc Savage and his Apocalyptic Life". Almost all other works are either out-of-print or are simply not available. Hence, at least in the current state of the market, this work stands alone unchallenged in terms of all the aspects. A reader who knows only the name of the most famous creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, can also enjoy this book to the fullest extent. Go ahead and enjoy this book.
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