For my 12 th birthday, my parents gave me the complete Tarzan library for Christmas. I had easy access to the Gold Key Tarzan comic books, I watched the NBC Tarzan cartoon in the mid 70’s with glee. He has a vocabulary! Shortly after I started reading the classic Tarzan and John Carter novels. This wasn’t Tarzan I would say, he doesn’t grunt. I dug the TV show so much, that when I went back and watched the Johnny Weissmuller classics, I hated them. And though I read this at age 8, I was already inadvertently familiarized with Burroughs, being a huge fan of Ron Ely’s Tarzan TV show. Dinosaurs ran rampant in this land, and so I was introduced to anachronistic science fiction, the blending of genres. He first opened my eyes to the adventure story with BACK TO THE STONE AGE, a tale of a post-WWI German officer trapped in the land of Pellucidar in the Earth’s core. I love Edgar Rice Burroughs, though I accept that much of his body of work is dated and difficult to adapt to the screen. Burrough’s Tarzan used to be the live-action MCU of franchises when little boys wore coonskin caps and watched Howdy Doody… but for me, as a teenager in the ’70s and ’80s, the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs saw new life with republishing by Ballantine Books, and fantastic art by Neal Adams… Lansdale about this film, and he liked it a bit, too. It a review/op-ed of the Tarzan film to come out that year. Here’s one of the few articles I published on Project iRadio’s page during our tenure with the failed podcasting network.
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