Saturday, 6 June 2020

Bonus Special Part 3 by Eli Eshed!

Tarzan's image has undergone changes in relation to the original creation of Burroughs, not only in cinema but also in comics. The figure was also very successful in music. Tarzan was the first adventure hero who appeared in comic books in the papers, already in 1929, and still stars in comic books decades later. These comics, the drawings of important comic artists, such as Harold Foster (Foster) and Burne Hogarth (Hogarth) are now among the classics of the comic Book of the 1930s and 40s. Some of them were direct adaptations to Burroughs books, some of them were original stories. From the end of the 1940s, comic books began appearing based on original Tarzan stories with Dell publishing. For decades, the prolific comic-book writer Gaylord Dubois (Dubois) and the artists Jesse Marsh (Marsh), Russ Manning (Manning) and others wrote the booklets. Dubois created new figures, such as the Titan Argus and Scottish doctor McCardle, and placed many of his exploits in the lost "Pal Ul Don" land, which was created by Burroughs in one of his books. Due to the nature of the medium, which allows for a detailed description of monsters and fantastic events without the financial constraints that work in the movies, the comic stories are a fantastic aspect.

Tarzan's image became the most popular literary figure of the 20th century, together with secret Agent James Bond and comic book Superman and perhaps even more of them, for although these figures were very well-used in many other countries except for the countries of the United States and Britain, the fans of the various countries reproduce the imported material and comic books, and did not bother to create original works on these figures. In the case of Tarzan, however, he became such an integral part of the various cultures in which he was released into, as their own original books and films were created to satisfy the public. 

The local public's mandala is to stimulate. And so in the Indian Subcontinent, there was a whole series of films, as well as in various other countries, and original stories that appeared even in countries such as Syria and Lebanon (although the books described the Arabs in a way that is not positive to say the least...). All of this, of course, without the request of permission from the successors of the Burroughs estate, were the rights to the character. And for a long time, the author's successors were involved in a series of lawsuits and litigations against the continuation of Burroughs in the various countries, but for every entrepreneur who used the image of Tarzan, 10 others get arrested by one in different places of the world. But for some reason there was one place where the long hands of Burroughs’s successors were not reached, and that there were very short periods of industrial heydays, especially in stories about the lord of the jungle.

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