Tarzan in Color: Vol 14

Tarzan in Color

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Burne Hogarth (Illustrator)

Tarzan in Volume 14 (1944-1945)

60 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

About the author

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Reviews

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book that reprints a year of TARZAN Sunday pages. One way to summarize: Tarzan fights Nazis, a dinosaur, helps a Tartar chief. Some of the clichés are not repeated; others are: Tarzan still becomes the leader of whatever group he tries to help and he still manages to get a group of beasts (many natural enemies) to fight alongside each other and a group of humans. How do the beasts know the friendly humans from the enemy humans? It is fairly silly, but at last no women fall in love the moment they see Tarzan and then betray him when he spurns their love, as so many have in earlier stories.

These stories are improbable, of course, but artist Berne Hogarth, working near the top of his game, does everything he can to sell the action as realistic, and usually succeeds. The storytelling is varied and vibrant, the impossible physical action hidden, and the visuals do most of the work to fill-out the disparate characters.

Overall, this is an entertaining package, rather less racist then this strip could be, though that is because only one of the stories has black characters, with good action sequences and less hackneyed plots than usual.