I’m what one might call a bit of a Tarzan nut, in fact, I’m a massive fan of most of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s works and it drives me crazy how often his writings are mucked up in the translation from book to screen. I’ve read and reviewed almost everything he’s written, having seen all the…
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Tarzan and Friends: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs, a man who quit the pencil-sharpener wholesale business to give writing a stab, is most known for his creation of Tarzan of the Apes but that jungle swinging pulp hero was just the tip of the iceberg in the fertile imaginative mind of one of the 20th Centuries most influential writers.
Disney’s The Legend of Tarzan (2001-2003) – Review
With the success of their 1999 animated feature Tarzan it’s no surprise that the House of Mouse would bring the Ape Man to television, as part of their Disney’s One Saturday Morning lineup, but what was a little surprising is how good it was.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle: The Filmation Cartoon Series
We’ve seen countless adaptations of Tarzan ranging from the monosyllabic Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan The Ape Man to the recent and more verbose Alexander Skarsgård in The Legend of Tarzan, but rarely have these “adaptations” done more than just borrow the origin story and then make up their own adventures.
Tarzan and the Castaways: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Tarzan and the Castaways is the last book to be published containing stories of the Ape Man’s jungle adventures and is not so much a novel as it is a collection of short stories