All of the above were the main and most famous heroes of the jungle adventures that kept the many and fanatical readers of this successful magazine company. However, there were some others who played an important role in the development of our stories, but not many people remember them, perhaps because their appearance did not last long. Who were they? Read below: In the very interesting texts of the 2nd period of "Gaur - Tarzan", Routsos made a great innovation: His stories escaped the strict framework of "jungle" adventures: So we entered the framework of science fiction adventures!
Thus, new protagonists appeared next to the old, good and honest heroes we knew until then. Heroes dedicated to the service of both good and evil. We will try to give more information about the format of the stories contained in the children's fav magazine. That's why we will start from the beginning: So once upon a time, Tarzan and Gaur's companions gave birth to two cute and healthy babies, a boy and a girl. So Tarzan had a daughter and Gaur a son.
But while the babies are still newborn, a crazy scientist, Crab, appears. He reaches the jungle driving a strange spaceship, which has the shape and form of a huge metal robot.
So this new "bad" hero of our stories kidnaps the two babies. He takes them to an unknown, distant and deserted island where he had his refuge, together with the perfectly equipped scientific laboratory where he made his great inventions. He baptizes them Storm and Lightning.
From this point on, Routsos's pen surpasses all previous ones: His galloping imagination stands out in all its glory! Wise Crab has vast knowledge of every human science. So he manages to raise the two babies quickly, so that in just a few weeks they become 18 years old. At the same time, with the scientific means at his disposal, he transmits all his vast knowledge to all fields. And all these miracles happened while the two children were sleeping! That is, something like the well-known "sleep education" that Routsos probably started to implement in the world first!
The two children quickly became first-class scientists: Their inventions surprised Crab, who was proud of his creations. Time passed and once old Crab felt he was nearing the end of his life. So before he died, he told Keravnos and Tyhella their whole story, while confessing who their parents are and how they are in the jungle.
So, after Crabb's death, the two children set off for the jungle, flying in their spaceship. They felt very happy and wanted to see the people who brought them into the world as quickly as possible. But as soon as their first meeting took place, Tarzan, Gaur and their companions treated the two youngsters with great suspicion: They could not easily accept the fact that they were found to have eighteen-year-old children overnight. Later, this suspicion turned into a deep hatred, So let's go back in time.
Even before Crab died, his replacement had appeared. That was Dr. Cruz. A wise scientist and he, but a fierce criminal, was called the "dark man". His ambition was to become the ruler of the world, to destroy our ageing planet and to overthrow God himself! This criminal has known Crab for a long time. He considered him his direct competitor and watched him closely with the "television set" he had invented. That's how he knew the whole story of the two babies that Kramp had abducted, as well as their artificial upbringing afterwards.
So he knew every detail. So when the two youngsters set off for the jungle, he caught up and in disguise first met their parents, saying that those who would come and tell them that they were their children, were in fact the ones who abducted the babies and then killed them! He also presented as evidence their layers that Crump had kept on his island.
Thus, of course, the reaction of our heroes in the jungle is just justified, as soon as they saw the Lightning and the Storm, they rushed to hit them, shouting "Criminals, murderers!"….
Many events took place until the truth was restored and all misunderstandings were resolved. In the end, everyone was loved and everything turned into honey and milk.
So as we said above, we now enter into descriptions of stories that completely escape the strict framework of "jungle" adventures. This is how we read the adventures of our new and old heroes in completely unusual places for the genre of the magazine: In London, New York, Space, even the seabed. Science fiction, mystery, combined with police adventures, which lasted until issue 52, the last of this period.
With all that we have mentioned, the reader can get an idea of what exactly happened in the "2nd season" of "Gaur - Tarzan", and which were not mentioned again in the 3rd period of the following issue, when Routsos collaborated again with Papadimitriou. Lightning and the Storm were completely absent.
The bad, crazy scientists made their appearance, but now Crab was called Urag (irrelevant anonymity of Gaur, as he does not want to symbolize anything), while Cruz appeared as a Chinese man named Chen Hu. The role of both was quite degraded this time. Until issue 110 of the third period, the stories were based mainly on the old texts of Routsos, which of course had undergone significant modifications.
The last two (111 and 112) were adaptations of old adventures, from the time of the first period when the magazine was still titled "TARZAN", that is, before Gaur, Tatabu and Jane appeared in the jungle.
As for the first two, they made an "instant" appearance in issue 111, while their absence from the action of issue 112 was justified by the fact that when Tarzan went to the rocky mountain to ask for his help, he found Gaur seriously ill and Tatabu to take care of him, and therefore could not help him in this adventure.
So he was forced to act alone. The same issue states that Jane had left the jungle for good: She went to the big port, got on a boat and returned to her homeland England.
The 4th period finally, with the 22 issues that managed to circulate, did not add anything substantially new to the case of this important children's magazine: The titles and texts of the adventures were exactly the same as those of the third period.
However, we must refer again to the high quality sketches of Avagianos that adorned the covers and of Venetoulias the inside pages.
NIKOS V. ROUTSOS AGAINST THE COMPETITION OF THE TIME
Let's go back in time, to investigate what exactly was happening in the field of publishing children's non-fiction magazines in the 50's: Routsos has been released on his own since October 15, 1951 in the 2nd period of "Gaur - Tarzan", a publication that will last until the beginning of October 1952, as we said at the beginning.
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