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An excellent publishing effort for its time and commendable is the writing of Routsos who shuffles the deck once again, transporting the heroes of "Gaur-Tarzan" with new identities. Tarzan remains Tarzan, Gaur becomes Zandov, Tatabu Zampa while the once comic duo Pokopoko and Houhous now become Kakarak and Tsicha. Aptosoglou's illustration is, in my opinion, the best he has presented during his rich career.
Tarzan… Tarzan of the apes… child of the jungle… lord of the jungle!!!
There are many nicknames given to him by thousands of his fanatical friends around the world and so many copies of him; kings of the jungle too, although they were never recognised as his official successors. This legendary hero, beloved by young and old, is the work of the American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). In Greece he became widely known mainly via the movies (speechless at first, talking later).
The most representative cinematic Tarzan was of course the actor Johnny Weissmuller, a swimming champion, with an athletic stature and a husky body, who literally threshed the vast jungle, chasing all the bad guys (robbers, murderers, vagrants, poachers). With the help of the ropes hanging from the trees, he could jump from branch to branch and from tree to tree, developing very high speeds.
The hero soon had a partner, the Englishwoman Jane, and then their adoptive son Boy appeared, growing up in this idyllic environment in the best way.
An inseparable companion of the company was the chimpanzee Cheeta, himself a furry boy or a young adult male, who gave plenty of laughter to the spectators with his inimitable face. It should be noted that Cheeta did not appear in any of the author's books, so he was a mainly cinematic creation.
The beautiful Maureen O'Sullivan (until 1942) appeared in the role of Jane next to Weissmuller for the first six films of the series, while later, other, always beautiful women took the baton: Frances Gifford and Nancy Kelly both appeared in 1943, while Brenda Joyce closed the series with her appearance in the other 4 films (1945-1948).
Weissmuller made a total of 12 films like Tarzan from 1932, when he was 27-28, until 1948, when he was 43-44. Fortunately, many actors - worthy or less worthy - appeared in the same role (such as Lex Barker, Gordon Scott and others), but none had the long lasting success that Weissmuller had.
But we will not expand further in cinema, since our subject is the "written" adventures of the hero, that is, the books and -mainly- the magazines that managed to be known and loved by young and old the legend of Tarzan in our country. Thus we first see that in 1922 the publisher Vouniseas compiled in one book all the hitherto known adventures of Tarzan. Then Dimitrakos proceeded to publish five original books by Burroughs in brochures first and in volumes later, while George Tsoukalas wrote in 1935 two novels with the first Tarzan of Greek origin, which were republished in the 70's.
Then, short and long stories of Tarzan are published in various magazines ("Mask" No. 128 of the period, "Stories and Tales" by Saliver No. 18, "Children's Newspaper"). In 1945-58 two series of issues with adventures of Tarzan were published by Aristophanes Papadimitriou. The texts were anonymous translations from American pulps, not exclusively with Tarzan as the hero in the original, but in the translation there was… Tarzanisation, which is difficult to detect.
In the early 50's "Tarzan" is released by Rekos in Thessaloniki (print one of the most amateur publications that have been released in Greece), The typographer Spachis also publishes a careful edition where Tarzan stories are written by Alekos Kostakis (Elekta Paramythia magazine - The true adventures of Tarzan). ROUTSOS APPEARS ON THE SCENE AND BECOMES THE MASTER OF THE GAME.
In July 1950, the publishing house "Ankara-Apollon Papadimitriou" launches a new magazine, which was supposed to write history in children's popular reading, in addition to the fairy tales in leaflets. Writer Nikos V. Routsos, who were at the time, had written for children's readers just a few fairy tales in "Ankara" (the series from which the new magazine emerged as a standalone edition). Its title: "Tarzan". In this historical series, however, we will refer extensively below, since it is the main object of this post. For now we will continue to cite various other magazines with adventures of Tarzan, but also other heroes who from time to time were invented as his substitutes.
On 20-10-1950 the publisher and author D. Peratzakis published a series entitled "Tarzan - Adventures in the jungle", in texts by him and M. Prionistis. 2 series came out: The first one made 22 issues, while the second one entitled "New Adventures of Tarzan" had only 6.
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