Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips Volume 2

Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips #2

by Russ Manning

This second volume of a 4-book series collecting the entire run of the Tarzan newspaper strip by Russ Manning presents five complete daily storylines and five complete Sundays adventures. In the dailies from October 29, 1969 through March 31, 1971, Tarzan meets the Stone Pharaoh while his son, Korak, encounters the Gryf Worshippers. In the Sundays from May 18, 1969 through January 17, 1971, Tarzan embarks on a safari to Opar and we learn the backstory on how he met his wife and life partner Jane. The more than 600 daily and Sunday strips are reproduced from the Edgar Rice Burroughs file copies.

In 1967 Manning was selected by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate to take over the strip and bring it back to the original Burroughs vision. With assists by Bill Stout, Mike Royer, and Dave Stevens, Manning created a modern classic.

Genres: Comics

296 pages, Hardcover

First published December 24, 2013

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Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume 2, 1969-1971 collects five black and white stories (Korka's Story, The Magii of Pal-Ul-Don, Tarzan and the Stone Pharaoh, Tarzan and the Pashi Rochi, and Tarzan and the Cult of the Mahar) and five color stories (Tarzan and the Safari to Opar, How Tarzan Met Jane, Korak and the River of Time, Tarzan and the Slavers, and How Paul D'Arnot Met Tarzan), all written and drawn by Russ Manning.

My journey into the Tarzan newspaper strips continues with this volume. Tarzan returns to Paul-Ul-Don, fights a stone pharaoh in Egypt, slavers, assorted other douche bags, a psychic Pteranodon, two cults, beast men of Opar, and a race that syphons the lifespan of people to add to their own.

As with the last volume, these are nonstop adventure tales with fighting, lost cities, and more villains than you can shake a spear at. The stories play fast and loose with African geography but no one reads Tarzan looking for factual accuracy, I hope.

Once again, Russ Manning's art is the star of the show. The man is great at quiet scenes as well as fights above molten lava, beast men, lovely ladies, ancient ruins, and animals galore. Even the jungle foliage is well done, though in the intro, Manning said most of it came from his imagination since reference photos were hard to come by. His output was amazing considering how many panels he was knocking out in a week for the dailies and Sunday strips.

The Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips continue to have the bite of a beast man of Opar. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

[George Seminara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russ Manning never drew so well or wrote more excitingly than he did during his tenure as Tarzan artist extraordinaire. He ably fills the big shoes the
Job left for him and his stories are great. He is easily the number three best artist to draw the character after Foster and Hogarth. If you don't believe me just pick up this little beauty.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Als ich den ersten Band dieser Reihe bestellt hatte, fragte ich mich, ob eine Wiederbegegnung mit Tarzan nicht einen zu heftigen Rücksturz in die frühe Kindheit bedeutete. Und natürlich erinnere ich mich bei dieser Leküre an unbeschwerte Kindheitstage, nostalgisch und sehnsuchtsvoll. Wie überrascht war ich dann von der Qualität dieser Zeitungsstrips! Russ Manning erzählt keine kurzen geistlosen Geschichtchen eines Wilden, der zwischen Mittagspause und Abendbrot mit Löwen ringt, sondern so epische wie phantasievolle Adventure-Stories eines Helden, der als "edler" Wilder humaner und pazifistischer auftritt als andere Vertreter der ersten Welt.
Dass es Manning trotz der Begrenzung auf maximal drei Panels pro Tag gelingt, auf so spannende Weise lange Abenteuergeschichten zu erzählen, weist ihn bereits als Meister aus. Zum Glücksfall werden diese Stories endlich durch Mannings großartige Zeichnungen, die absolut meinen Geschmack treffen und denen seines eigenen Helden Magnus deutlich überlegen sind.
Das ist Tarzan at his best, und der zweite Band der Gesamtausgabe ist qualitativ auf gleicher Höhe mit dem ersten.