News Flash! Tarzan and Jane actually had sex. Sure this is something we all assume they did (how else were they passing all that time in their treehouse?), but the MGM movies of the 30s and 40s couldn’t obviously show us steamy jungle love so we just had to assume what went on in the…
Tag: All-Story Weekly
The Lad and the Lion: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Lad and the Lion is an interesting book as it not only tells the adventures stories of a young man with a lion but a parallel story about a small European country struggling with revolution, but strangely neither story has much impact on the other. Written in 1914 and first appearing as a three…
The Cave Girl: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Men of great deeds and action who, with noble purposes at heart, let none stand in their way as their mighty physiques carve a path to victory; this best describes your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs protagonist and is what really sets The Cave Girl apart from most of Burroughs’s books as the hero of this…
The Rider: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Rider is one of the shortest of Edgar Rice Burroughs works but it’s also one of the most entertaining. Written in 1915 and published as a serial for All-Story Weekly as H.R.H the Rider this story is a madcap adventure tale of mistaken and assumed identities with the fate of two countries hanging in…
The Mad King: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Mad King is easily one of my favorite Burroughs books because it so gleefully ripped-off the premise of one of my favorite stories The Prisoner of Zenda