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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 19:39:09 GMT -5
My first conscious ERB memory is of the 1989 CBS telemovie Tarzan in Manhattan. I wouldn't say it made me a fan, but I would pick-up random Tazan comics and novels from time to time after that. One of reading goals is to read more Tarzan and John Carter stories (both comics and prose).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 21:29:15 GMT -5
I think both ERB Tarzan & REH Conan benefited greatly from comic books.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 21:41:06 GMT -5
My dad was a big fan of the Tarzan movies so my first exposure was the Weismuller films at a very young age (pre-school) watching them with my dad and then reading the Tarzan Sunday strips with him. When I was in nursery school and just discovering comics, I found the Kubert Tarzan comics at the barber shop my dad went to, so would read some of those while waiting to get my hair cut.
When I was a little older I discovered the Filmation animated series on CBS on Saturday mornings and was a big fan of that. When I was in jr. high I was big into sci-fi and my aunt's then boyfriend gave me a copy of one of the SFBC compilations of John Carter books to read on a long Greyghound trip with my mom, and I discovered Barsoom. He also gave me a copy of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (one of the digest sized paperbacks editions form the late 60s/early 70s) that he found at a yard sale as a gift and that was my first exposure to Tarzan as Burroughs wrote him. It was shortly after this time that I saw Greystoke and the Bo Derek Tarzan films as well.
I remain a fan to this day, and one of my pride and joys is the 1918 first edition hardback of Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs that I own, that my father-in-law gave me just after I moved out here that he had found is a junk pile at a tractor auction. It's a bit beat up, but I still adore it.
I am slowly filling in many of the Tarzan runs in comics and strips now, and I have a large pile of Burroughs paperbacks on my bookshelves as well.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 21:59:13 GMT -5
I am gonna give the new "The Land That Time Forgot" comics by "American Mythology" publishing a try, considering I was responsible for the original German translation of the three Caprona novels back in 1999, which this year a new edition and went to E-Book for the first time. Is there a story here?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 22:03:24 GMT -5
And I have to second jodoc's recommendation of The Legend of Tarzan. This is finally Tarzan done right on the big screen (and I'll even forgive it the vine swinging nonsense that appears nowhere in Burroughs). Yeah, but the swinging looked cool, so I let it slide. Then there was that bit with his knuckles, which I kept waiting to see brought into play somehow. And seriously, how do we bring in Opar, but no La? Whatever. Still loved the movie.
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Post by foxley on Aug 4, 2016 22:12:00 GMT -5
And I have to second jodoc's recommendation of The Legend of Tarzan. This is finally Tarzan done right on the big screen (and I'll even forgive it the vine swinging nonsense that appears nowhere in Burroughs). Yeah, but the swinging looked cool, so I let it slide. Then there was that bit with his knuckles, which I kept waiting to see brought into play somehow. And seriously, how do we bring in Opar, but no La? Whatever. Still loved the movie. I thought the bit about the knuckles was just a nice acknowledgement of what Burroughs established: that Tarzan grew up moving on all fours as often as he was upright, and was added so viewers wouldn't lose suspension of disbelief when he shown doing so. And I also would have loved to see La on the screen, but it would have added an additional plot element (the rivalry between La and Jane) that the movie didn't need.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 22:25:38 GMT -5
Yeah, but the swinging looked cool, so I let it slide. Then there was that bit with his knuckles, which I kept waiting to see brought into play somehow. And seriously, how do we bring in Opar, but no La? Whatever. Still loved the movie. I thought the bit about the knuckles was just a nice acknowledgement of what Burroughs established: that Tarzan grew up moving on all fours as often as he was upright, and was added so viewers wouldn't lose suspension of disbelief when he shown doing so. And I also would have loved to see La on the screen, but it would have added an additional plot element (the rivalry between La and Jane) that the movie didn't need. Oh yeah, I agree. There was no room for La in this movie. (She rates her own movie, dammit.) But then why say those guys were from Opar? But it didn't really bother me; just picking nits here.
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 5, 2016 8:56:21 GMT -5
I am gonna give the new "The Land That Time Forgot" comics by "American Mythology" publishing a try, considering I was responsible for the original German translation of the three Caprona novels back in 1999, which this year a new edition and went to E-Book for the first time. Is there a story here? I briefly worked as a translator of fantasy and science fiction literature in between me graduating from University and finding a job with my degree in psychology. The Caprona novels were my last works. They had never been translated into German until 1999, what with us being the bad guys and such.
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Post by DubipR on Aug 5, 2016 10:28:18 GMT -5
Like MRP, it's a combination of both the Weismueller films and Filmation cartoons from the 70s/early 80s. From there, I ransacked my library for Tarzan books to read and eventually picking up the Marvel Tarzan run. It wasn't until my late teens that I discovered the Jesse Marsh and Russ Mannning eras.
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Post by berkley on Aug 5, 2016 21:43:20 GMT -5
I briefly worked as a translator of fantasy and science fiction literature in between me graduating from University and finding a job with my degree in psychology. The Caprona novels were my last works. They had never been translated into German until 1999, what with us being the bad guys and such. One of my favourite ERB works. Apparently Burroughs tried to make up for it years later by having a German protagonist in one of his books? Can't recall which one it was.
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Post by foxley on Aug 6, 2016 1:12:19 GMT -5
I briefly worked as a translator of fantasy and science fiction literature in between me graduating from University and finding a job with my degree in psychology. The Caprona novels were my last works. They had never been translated into German until 1999, what with us being the bad guys and such. One of my favourite ERB works. Apparently Burroughs tried to make up for it years later by having a German protagonist in one of his books? Can't recall which one it was. It's Back to the Stone Age, one of the Pellucidar novels.
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Post by berkley on Aug 6, 2016 1:31:50 GMT -5
One of my favourite ERB works. Apparently Burroughs tried to make up for it years later by having a German protagonist in one of his books? Can't recall which one it was. It's Back to the Stone Age, one of the Pellucidar novels. Thanks, I still haven't read all the Pellucidar books. When I said earlier that the Land that Time Forgot trilogy is one of my favourite ERB works, I forgot to add that I was already old enough that the way the German characters were automatically cast as the bad guys struck me as distasteful. 6+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 6, 2016 2:15:43 GMT -5
It's Back to the Stone Age, one of the Pellucidar novels. Thanks, I still haven't read all the Pellucidar books. When I said earlier that the Land that Time Forgot trilogy is one of my favourite ERB works, I forgot to add that I was already old enough that the way the German characters were automatically cast as the bad guys struck me as distasteful. 6+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Or it was provident, considering my country's worst atrocities were still to come.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 8:33:57 GMT -5
Burroughs had no problem depicting his country's enemies with, shall we say, broad and insulting strokes. Look at the Japanese in Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. He was not a particularly subtle writer.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 17, 2016 14:56:12 GMT -5
Catching up after 2 weeks at the coast... I saw the Weismuller etc. movies on TV, and the Filmation cartoon, but never watched the Ron Ely series, never saw the comic strip, and ignored the Gold Key comic books. My real introduction to Burroughs came when DC took over the comics license. To this day, when I imagine the characters I see them as published by DC in 1972 - Tarzan by Joe Kubert, Korak by Frank Thorne, John Carter by Murphy Anderson, Pellucidar by Alan Weiss and Carson of Venus by Mike Kaluta. I bought a few dozen Burroughs novels in paperback in the next few years, including some British editions during my week there in 1973. Also picked up one of the two-book volumes with a Frazetta cover when I joined SFBC: And the first of Burne Hogarth's oversized hardcovers: Interior samples:
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