Is Tarzan a legacy name?

One of the more interesting issues with certain names, like Mowgli, Bomba, Tarzan and Sheena, is that they are legacy names without fans knowing, due to being so subjective to reinterpretations as drastic as that of Nikos Routsos. 

While the literary Kaspa is very different from his film counterpart, they do share a few or some similarities in common, as are the literary Jan and his film counterpart. The literary Bomba is even worse off, as he shares only a few things in common with his film counterpart, as is the literary+manga Classic Baruuba and his film+manga counterpart Buruuba. Even in the coming editions, Jinhaku/Barumba will have both a lean-to shelter and a hut, as well as a treehouse.

Tarzan also has a slew of successors bearing his actual name as a superhero alias. While the canonical literary+comic version will stay in his own Mythos, his successor from the Disney’s upcoming cyberpunk reboot will have to fill out a ton of newfound niches.

French Tarzan clones! Part 3

In Belgium, Chott who, later, will create the famous Fantax, book in 1947 for the weekly "Wrill", MOWG "Fils de la Brousse". This story of a teenager taken in by the great apes and whose companion is an elephant, will be taken up as an album by Gordinne. This same editor publishes, in 1948, in his other weekly "Sabord", a curious character TALMOUF, realized in a semi-realistic style by Al Peclers. It is "the true story of an ape man and the victorious struggles of this king of the jungle against wild animals, cannibalistic tribes and the dangers of the virgin forest". His accomplices in adventures are Filoseille the monkey and Valentin a young elephant. The hero, dressed in a loincloth, is very realistic, while the animals and natives are caricatured.

Still in Belgium, François Craenhals, well known today for "Pom et Teddy" and “Chevalier Ardent”, creates the character of KARAN, a sort of Mowgli with endearing adventures. He will sign eight episodes, which will be published in the Heroic collection. Albums in 1950-51. The action takes place in Brazil, where his parents were massacred by looters. Karan takes refuge in the forest. He is adopted by a jaguar and learns to know the animals. After avenging his parents and worked in a circus, we find him in the Moluccas Islands where he meets a young girl, Aléa. This will be the end of his adventures.

For his part, Marijac will adapt an English series "The Wild Boy", by Bill Lacey in "Pierrot" in 1953-55, under the title L'ENFANT DE LA BROUSSE. Another young boy who lives by animals. We will find him later in "Nano and Nanette", always with adventures close to nature and animals.

The return of Tarzan to La Sagedition in 1968 put a brake on new creations, difficult to match the model. However, Raymond Maric (screenplay) and Pierre Frisano (drawings), relaunched the genre in 1974, with GORAK, which was published in full stories first in "Le Journal de Bibi Fricotin", then in "Trio" (1976) and "Pieds Nickelés" (1978). Two flexible albums were published in 1979, with the same publisher, the SPE, covering the same episodes of "L'Homme au Guepard". Screenplay and drawings are of high quality and this series had a modest success. Gorak is a former trainer who finds himself unemployed in Brazil. With Diane the trapeze artist and Gip his cheetah, he leaves civilisation to go deep into the Amazon jungle where he will experience often dangerous adventures. Unlike his colleagues, Gorak does not wear a loincloth, he is shirtless. On the other hand, his partner shows off her generous shapes in a two-piece.

We should also talk about the girls of the jungle, who, following TARZELLA, appeared in the adventures of Tarzan, in an episode drawn by Rex Maxon, were also very numerous: Sheena, Durga Rani, Panthère Blonde, and many others, without forgetting the very erotic Jungla, by Stélio Fenzo and also published by Aredit, in complementary strips in small formats, Rima fille de la jungle by Kubert.

French Tarzan clones! Part 2

ZEMBLA was born in 1963, imagined by JK Melwyn Nash (Marcel Navarro), also drawn by Pedrazza, then by Pietro Gamba, B. Charles and above all by Franco and Fausto Oneta, on screenplays by Mazzanti, Torelli, Cesare Solini ... New success, proof that there was room for several heroes of the same genre. At n ° 60, Zembla goes bi-monthly for 200 issues, then becomes monthly again. A Zembla Special was published from 1964 and still appears. He is one of the rare survivors of the crisis that hit the comics press and pockets. Like Akim, Zembla is surrounded by well-typed characters: Rasmus, a magician who is a parody of Mandrake the Magician, Yéyé (in Italy: Koo), a sympathetic young pygmy, wearing an American MP's helmet, and faithful animals (Satanas, a big wild cat, Bwana the lion and even a Kangaroo named Pétoulet!). Of course, Zembla is tall, muscular, he is always dressed in a panther skin and talks to animals who very often help him in his defense of good causes. Finally, let us point out that the first episode of Zembla was published in n °15 of "Special Kiwi" in 1963, a successful test since the following year this new title from the Lug editions was going to be a big hit among young comic book lovers.

Other publishing houses tried to impose "their" Tarzanide, often recovered abroad. Here are a few:

DJEKI LA JUNGLE, in the monthly "Jim Taureau", in 1958, published by La Sagedition (which has not yet taken over Tarzan). This character will be reissued in "Pépito" in 1966.

KING LA JUNGLE in a mini-format, edited by Editions des Remparts (1960-62), an Italian series by Pini Segna.

BANGA, with the same publisher, in 1962-71. This "Ace of the Jungle" is also of Italian origin but lives in the South American Amazon, drawn mainly by Lino Brazzi, for the Spada brothers, publishers associated with the Remparts editions.

KALI (1966-81), published by Jeunesse et vacances, which evolved in the virgin forests of India. This character is also an Italian creation by Vladimiro Missaglia (drawings) and his brother Ennio (screenplay). In Italy, this character is called "Kriss". Kali's companion, Zora, gave her name to a quarterly which published other unpublished accounts of these characters (1967-79).

TAMAR (1962-65), published in "Tim l'Audace" by Aredit is a "King of the jungle" of Spanish origin, undoubtedly a creation by R. Acedo (screenplay) and A. Borrell (drawings).

TIKI "Son of the Jungle" is a young boy who has the merit of having been created by the famous Pini Segna and the mighty Hugo Pratt, on a screenplay by G. Ottani. But from the 7th plate, he was taken over by the excellent Stélio Fenzo, who made him a successful character. This series appeared in France in 1964-68, in the monthly "Lancelot", edited by Aventures et Voyages and will be repeated in "Safari", by the same publisher, in 1981-95.

DJINGA JUNGLE at OZ/ODEJ, appeared in the "Télé Série Bleue" collection, in 1966. It is undoubtedly due to the Argentinian Schiaffino, on scripts by Jean Sanitas. Djinga "The Master of the Jungle", uses an original weapon: the boomerang. Physically, this young hero looks quite like Tiki. With Gurik, a big giant and Gloop the bear, he lives eventful adventures in the jungles of Asia, within the home port temple of Civa in India.

YATACA "Fils du Soleil" at Aventures et Voyages which started in semi large format all in color for 20 issues before becoming a pocket.

Also in Aventures et Voyages, two tapes which appeared in addition in the pocket Lancelot, TIBOR the son of the jungle by Hansrudi Wäscher and BINGO a young Mulatto Tarzanide living in the jungle with his father Kongo and his mother in a treehouse and living many adventures.

Some American series have been adapted here like BOMBA "The Jungle Boy", at Aredit, in 1969-70 and THUNDA by Frank Frazetta, in the album "Adventure, Mystery and Romance", which included various stories by this author, published by Humanoïdes Associés in 1983.

The weekly press was not left out and a few tests were attempted, tests rarely transformed despite the interest of certain stories. We can cite:

TAO "L'Homme Fauve", by Lucien Nortier, on a Scenario by Robert Charroux, in the pages of "Zorro". Produced at the request of the boss of this publishing house, Tao is a man of the jungle who tries to protect animals from unscrupulous hunters. This story will be taken up, in 1949, in RC in the "Zorro Supplement" collection.

WAMBA "Le justicier de la Brousse" is one of the rare black heroes, it is published on the front page of "Pic et Nic" in 1946. The drawing was by Eugène Gire and the screenplay by Germain Fontenelle (G. Fronval). The following year, Eugène Gire, after having signed a western, puts it back in the same journal with MUNKEY "Lord of the Forest" (text by H.M. Dantin). This time, the hero is a likeable gorilla, who raised a little girl who became a beautiful young lady: Margaret. Their relations are a little ambiguous, fortunately, at the time, the kids did not ask themselves too many questions about the term "companion". After all, there is no proof that Munkey was not a female gorilla. If this new series makes the headlines, inside we can read the exploits of another character once again a black, MAKAO "The King of the Tropical Bush", who is the lover of animals and who saves the daughter of a settler. This strip is signed by a mysterious O'Ritz on a text by H.M. Dantin.

French Tarzan clones! Part 1

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In the booklets of complete narratives (often in an Italian format) thus appeared a few fugitive characters who lived short-lived adventures: GUNGOO "son of the jungle" by Brantonne on a scenarios by Daimblond, in the collection "Le Vainqueur" (1947), HOOGLIW, in "Un Homme dans la Jungle" by RR Giordan, in the "Bagarre" collection (Editions Publi-Vog in Nice in 1946), YEDO, in "L'Empereur de la Sylve" by Elain Day, in the same collection (1947), TOGO "Le Roi de la Jungle" by the Edomi workshop published in the "Texas" collection (Ed. Claire-Jeunesse 1947), SARI "Le Sauvage" by RR Giordan (Publi-Vog 1950 ), TOULA, "L'Homme Dieu des Terres Inconnues" by H. Will in "Selections les Marveleuses aventures" (SAETL 1948) and, in the same collection (still in 1948) L'HOMME GAZELLE by Brantonne on a screenplay by A Pautard.

Some vigilantes of the jungle had a more prolific career, it is the case of:

ROAG by G. Mattéi on scenarios by J. Cugnot, who will experience twenty adventures in the collection "Le Monde et la Jungle" published by Voix Française de Nice in 1948-49. Roag lives with a companion, Laura, in Bango, an island in the Pacific, where they face various villains, including the Japanese troops 

OURAGAN by André Bohan is edited by Edition Modernes and more than a hundred stories were published between 1946 and 1950. In tight shorts and striped swimsuits, he is not, strictly speaking, a jungle man because his adventures unfold sometimes elsewhere. But the majority of his exploits are still in the jungle or the bush, hence his nickname King of the Bush.

TARGA was created by Robba (Robert Bagage), director of the Siècle-Impéria editions, who entrusted the drawing to a young designer, Georges Estève (who signed the first Stev'son episodes). The latter evolves quickly and its somewhat stiff beginner style transforms into a flexible and lively graphic that contributed to the success of the series. Subsequently, Bob Roc (Robert Rocca) signed eight episodes, Carland three and the mysterious Motépé, one episode. Targa has a pretty (and sexy) wife, Tinga and a black panther, Khan, who is a great helper of her in her fight against adventurers of all kinds who cross her path. The trio travels and leaves the jungles of Africa for those of Asia, from India to the Pacific Islands. There are sometimes bizarre anachronisms such as the meeting of pirates and filibusters, while the action is supposed to take place in the 20th century. If this series was a great success, it is certainly due to the atmosphere of the stories, some of which are quite impressive: giant lizards, hordes of lepers, prehistoric monsters, pit of rattlesnakes, etc. The monthly appeared from 1947 to 1951, but Targa was interrupted in 1950, victim of various pressures: the threat of a trial concerning Tarzan and especially the application of the infamous law of July 1949 on publications intended for young people. The first four episodes will be repeated, in 1979, in a special “Kalar” special edition, with reworked lettering and text, under the name AGAR. 

YORGA was published in 1948-49 at La Sagedition, in the famous "Adventures and Mystery" collection. It is an Italian series due to Antonio Canale (also cartoonist of Amok under the pseudonym Tony Chan) on scenarios by GL Benelli (creator of Tex and bein other well-known characters), later in Italy, the series will be drawn by F. Gamba. "Son of the Jungle and the Gods", Yorga was still a baby when his parents were murdered on their plantation in India. Taken in by a fakir, Yorga is initiated into the occult sciences and the language of animals. As an adult, he will protect them and avenge his parents with the help of the beautiful Leïla. Unfortunately, French readers would be frustrated because the series disappears after a disastrous publication of only seven volumes, but still succeeded in Italy. 

OGAR "Le Démon des Savanes" was produced by Yves Mondet in 1948 for a bi-monthly published in Lyon. As a subtitle, this collection of eight issues bears the mention "Le journal des jeunes seeks ...". In the eighth issue, it is announced "a great adventure of Ogar, The Steel Crab, and good news: from now on, Ogar will appear on 16 pages with a new presentation" which will never see the light of day. Published in large format, on eight pages printed in blue, the adventures of Ogar remain classic, the originality comes from the place where the action begins: the Matto Grosso in Brazil. But Ogar will soon travel around the world, from Mexico to Australia via the West Indies, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Samoa Islands. The hero conforms to the image of the Tarzanides: dressed in a loincloth, this athlete carries an Indian dagger, which does not prevent him from using a colt, a bow or a rifle so easily depending on the circumstances. Blond, long hair like his colleagues, he fights against wild animals, hostile tribes and scoundrels of all kinds.

TIM L'AUDACE, published in Nice (Publi-Vog edition), then in Monaco (Monte Carlo edition) in 1947-50, is the work of the brothers R.R. Giordan (Nissan scenarios). More than twenty booklets were published and if, at the beginning, the graphics are weak, very quickly the Giordan brothers acquire a perfect mastery in spite of the influences of Tarzan. The exotic and lush decorations are neat and Tim l'Audace, Magda his companion and the monkey "the Ancestor" are very nice characters. Tim l'Audace reappeared in 1959, in the Ardan collection, at Artima. The first issue is a superb tribute to Hogarth, but it would be the only booklet drawn by the Giordan brothers. From n ° 2, Bob Leguay takes over. Supported by many screenwriters (M. Perry, MA Rayjean, P. Ducher, J. Lombard), Bob Leguay, under pressure from the editor, changes the character who quickly gives up his loincloth to become civil and become a reporter afterwards. After having traveled the world, however, he will return to his first love and join the jungle. But he keeps his clothes and becomes, like "Jungle Jim", an adventurer of the bush who shares his exploits with a black man named Salam. After a hundred numbers, Bob Leguay abandons Tim l'Audace which is taken over by Robert Hugues. The series continued until 1965, then until 1977 with reissues, but this successful series is not the only one from this publisher which features a man from the jungle.

In "Audax", the Artima editions had already hosted:

ARDAN, drawn by J.A. Dupuich. Ardan is a former boxer, lost in the jungle, who befriends a lion, experiences three adventures in 1950 ... and disappears.

MOHA "Le Sauvage" is a young Mulatto created by André Gosselin. After a few stories in the "Audax" collection, he returns in the monthly "Tarou" where it will be drawn by Gaston Niézab. When the latter died, it was taken over by Gosselin, who finished the series in 1958.

Still at Artima, a character was to experience exceptional longevity:

TAROU "Le Maître des Tigres", created by Bob Dan (Robert Dansler), begins in the collection "Une Aventure de", passes in the "Dynamic" collection (1st series), then after a brief passage in "Ardan "(1953) accesses its own monthly title (1954). Bob Dan, an excellent storyteller, knew how to captivate his readers and compensate for a rapid drawing by the efficiency of his line. Tarou will continue until 1972, the year of the death of its author. The publisher will continue the collection until issue 263 (1977) with covers. Tarou, son of an engineer and a Malay native, was five when a cataclysm devastated the forest, killing his parents. He would be saved by a tigress who will raise him up. Thereafter, Tarou will have new companions, two tigers, then a lion: Salvator, a monkey: Bali and, of course, a companion, the pretty Denise, who will share his adventures in the jungles of the whole world. He will cross without incident the period of the beginning of the Fifties when the editors, cautious, avoided to publish masked heroes, superheroes or men of the jungle, in order not to incur the wrath of the famous Commission of Surveillance of the publications intended for la Jeunesse, who ended up defeating Tarzan in 1953 as well as a lot of American series (The Phantom of Bengal, The King of the Prairie ...). Doubtless Tarou, a French comic strip, without excessive violence and without eroticism (unlike the American series designed, it must be remembered, for an adult audience), could not shock the censors. Subsequently, the return of the hero of the jungle will be in the same spirit.

In pocket formats, sub-Tarzans were numerous, but few were those who crossed the threshold of popularity reached by Tarzan. However, there were still some exceptions with AKIM and ZEMBLA, which lasted for many years, Special Zembla still being published today.

AKIM, this "Son of the Jungle", was created in Italy in 1950, by Augusto Pedrazza, based on scenarios by Roberto Renzi. The theme is very close to that of Tarzan: Akim, Jim for civil status, is the son of the British consul in Calcutta, Frederik Rank. When returning to Europe, the family is shipwrecked and only the mother and the toddler are stranded on the African coast. The mother builds a hut and tries to raise her son, until the day when she is killed by a panther, who kidnaps the baby and takes him to the jungle. He is saved by a gorilla, will live among them and learn the language of animals. It is the beginning of a saga which will include more than a thousand adventure stories of all kinds which had an enormous popular success both in Italy and in France, where this character appears in 1958, in a monthly magazine that bears his name in the Aventures et Voyages editions. Young French readers were passionate about this hero and sales exceeded all expectations. This title went bi-monthly to n ° 23 and a BENGALI supplement, under the title "Akim special hors série". In 1967-79, Akim was even reissued, in colour, in a slightly larger format, in “AKIM COLOR.” Of course, on closer inspection, the graphics are quite ordinary, but let's not forget not that the number of plates to provide hardly allowed Pedrazza to refine his drawing.

The absence of Tarzan in the kiosks is perhaps an explanation for the infatuation of the young people for Akim but also, most certainly, the intrigues which make him face, in addition to the traffickers, hunters of wild animals, greedy explorers and other dictators in power. , common in the genre, Mongols, Romans, Japanese soldiers, aliens, etc. Humor, fantasy, sci-fiction, everything mixes together to the delight of readers. The secondary characters are well-typed and endearing: the beautiful Rita, who has become his companion, Jim, an orphan he has adopted, as well as the inevitable beasts (Zig a monkey, Kar the gorilla, Baroi the elephant, Rag the lion...). A few years later, Akim will have a serious competitor, Zembla, launched by Lug editions.

Tarzan in Mediterranean and Latino Cinema

Welcome to Tarzan in Mediterranean Cinema! Let's go for the films that marked a huge change in Tarzan's looks. 

The Steve Hawkes Era began with Tarzan King of the Jungle and the Grotto. This film was a part-gritty, part-sexy spectacular for its time focusing on a sometimes melodious Tarzan, who looks like Lupin the Third, and his girlfriend who was similar to Jane Parker. Its sequel, Tarzan and the Black Panther, though infamous for the fire that occurred during its making, is also a decent one as well.

The Richard Yesteran Era began with Tarzan and the jungle Mystery, which is a tongue and cheek romp that has been occasionally dubbed in English for international markets. Same for its sequel, Tarzan and the Kawana Treasure, as they are among the few adaptations filmed in Africa. 

The great divide

Given the fact that the Tarzan trademark could well be lasting forever while the ERB written stories are themselves in public domain for most countries, it is both plausible and possible that the literary Tarzan series is still more likely to compete with Dragon Ball and Star Wars than with a huge majority of its own imitators. Oh Fuck Off! 

Although racism is unfortunately common at least in the Tarzan stories written by ERB, it is still more commonly superseded by the fact that Edgar Rice Burroughs himself was a cliche storm of both a writer and a person in almost any way possible. It’s rather more direct especially in the earliest ones, but that’s mostly due to how ancient they are. As bad as it still is, sexism was in higher amounts for these ones as well. 

With Edgar Rice Burroughs himself, he was indeed a super notorious prick, just not to the point of being like HP Lovecraft. In order to balance out, he also had the cash cow kind of taste that fellow pulp magnates would bend and fall for. 

The catch turns out to be something else. Whereas the racism in Tarzan novels (and their numerous adaptations thereof) is more easily researched and studied in good quality, almost all Tarzan researchers do not know and understand that lookism and colourism are a far more insidious pair of realities for them all. 

Saturnino Farandola: King of Fashionistas Part 2

The plot is as follows: his ship wrecked and his parents and the entire crew dead, the waves of the sea carry the cradle of little Saturnino to the island of Pomotù, where he is taken into custody by the monkey people who made the island hospital there, so it became his home. Growing up, Saturnino realizes that he is different from his "brothers" and, at 12, he decides to leave. He makes a log, greets his friends and sets off on an adventure. On the sea he is intercepted by the ship: “Bella Leocadia”, under the guidance of the commander “Lombrico”; to spot it is his assistant: "Mandible". The captain takes him on board and, for 10 years, Saturnino lived on the ship carrying goods and spices around the world.

At the age of 22 Saturnino's ship is attacked by Malaysian pirates commanded by the pirate "Bora Bora", and the captain dies. Farandola and Mandibola are taken prisoner and are saved only thanks to the Skilful gallantry of Saturnino who deceives the cruel "Bumbaja", the pirate's right arm; then he resumes command of the ship and establishes his base on the Island of the Turtles. Sailing the seas he lives a thousand adventures meeting many characters created by Giulio Verne such as the "Captain Nemo" who makes him visit the Nautilus and gives him diving suits.

The suits are then used by Farandola and Earthworm to explore the seabed, hunting for a whale that has swallowed the beautiful Mysera. We then find them in Siam in search of the sacred "White Elephant". But they see it badly because they are condemned by the rajah because of the evil and evil police mandarin, "Nao-King". Fortunately for them, the "colonel" of the Amazons, who fell in love with Mandible, helps them escape. Saturnino does not give up on the elephant hunt because there is a rich reward, and he goes to Japan where he breaks into the heart of Princess Yamidà. Hunting down the yellow pirates, believed to be responsible for the elephant kidnapping, Saturnino and Mandible reach China and clash with Nao King's henchmen.

The elephant flees again, this time in Siberia and, continuing the research, Saturnino meets another character of Giulio Verne: "Michele Strogoff". Finally, the white elephant is taken back and, after returning it to the Rajah, they collect the coveted reward.

New trip to Africa where he is robbed by the Negroes of the “Gram-Gram” tribe. Wandering through the jungle he arrives in the village of "Makalolo", where the sorcerer introduces him to the beautiful queen who is a white woman named "Caroline". She too joins the travellers and, together, they leave for Egypt. Saturnino lives many other adventures and during his travels he meets another character of Verne: “Fogg” engaged in his journey around the world. Finally, disappointed by his fellows, Farandola returns to his beloved island of Pomotù, where he begins to reign under the name of Saturnino 1. 

To remain faithful to Robida's book, and yet campy at the same time, the scenographies of the script were created in two dimensions and reproduce the illustrations of the same author of the novel; as well as the costumes, almost all mainly in black and white.

Original Characters revision Part 22

Zander Ficcara - Zander Ficcara is biracial and the conniving ruler of the Kyari town.  

Ziba - Ziba was one of the characters who appeared in The Machos. 

Rai - Basically a recurring character in another work. 

Errol - Based on Ghost's character Jake. 

Keisuke - Keisuke is based on Busuke Akagawa's character. 

Buruubu - Eldest brother to Baruuba, and the much younger Beruube and Biruubi. Is known to be a wicked if somewhat sympathetic demon man. 

Masuya - Masuya is the sister of Bakari.  

Lotta - A recurring character in the ‘Against the Human Zoo’ series. Though her full name is Charlotte Olivia Parson Ellis, Lotta’s from a pretty wealthy commoner family of political pragmatists. 

Taya - Taya is one of Tarzan’s illegitimate children. 

Tarang - Tarang is Mullet Mowgli’s wife and mother to the children Kali and Shiva. 

Kali - Mullet Mowgli’s witty daughter. 

Beruube - Beruube is The rarely seen younger sibling of Baruuba. He is known to have been a ground dweller. 

Biruubi - Biruubi is another rarely seen younger sibling to Baruuba. 

Shiva - Mullet Mowgli’s nerdy son. 

Samantha Wood - A buddy of Ren (aka Wren). Based on another Suiko in Tiger Boy by Souji Yamakawa. 

Rochelle Rayburn - Rochelle is Jason’s younger sister. 

Vidal Rayburn - Snottier than his fella Regina, Vidal came to Africa to taunt his family with guns, and more weapons, thus ending the gap between when they last met and when they first meet again. He himself is a three quarter sibling to Roger and Connor due to sharing a mother in common. 

Regina Wittgenstein - Ex-bandit godmother to Rochelle and Jason. She was an abandoned foundling turned cruel, snooty and snobbish, but slowly had to grow fond of Tommy McCook and married him a year later. Their only child, Betsy McCook, lived in various port cities on the East Coast until settling into Tigora with her husband Phillip Ames and daughter Janet, where she and Phil died there at just forty and forty two years old. 

Connor Rayburn - Connor Rayburn is the father of Jason and Rochelle Rayburn. He is the genetic brother of Roger and Vidal. 

Collette Brent - Meaner than Regina, Collette often taunts her with lots of chores, to the point that the latter got overworked and then fended for herself. 

Lola Lisabeth Watson - Blonde and much Nicer than Regina.

Jess Bly - Short Brown Haired Jess is the girlfriend and later wife of Michael Connelly Thorne. 

Soru - Soru is one of Jenny Collins’ childhood friends. 

Hannah Cardwell - Mrs Cardwell gave the GHU the first modern Sheena suit. She was the daughter of explorer-chemist parents who died too drunk. As a result, she was raised by shaman Koba and his family. 

Koli - Koli is Sheena’s mentor. 

Ella - Ella is the woman who raised Jenny Collins to become Sheena, thus Hannah Marshall must have been Jenny’s adoptive Aunty. She is perhaps Koba’s daughter. 

Jenny Collins - Jenny Collins, aka Sheena in honour of the eponymous Gaelic warrior who preceded Hannah Marshall and herself. She in the upcoming animated series will be based on Irish McCalla’s portrayal of Sheena and is the daughter of missionaries who perhaps died of worsening conditions when she was about seven. At the end, she has to reluctantly leave Southwest Uganda for Ohio in the final episodes. 

Jason Rayburn - Jenny Collins’ buddy and later husband. He is an inept hunter of a middle class background. 

Roger Rayburn - Vidal’s older cousin/half brother and Connor’s older half brother. 

Joey Collins - Hinted to be Jenny's long lost twin brother raised by a feral shaman. 

Janel Manning - Half-Ganda Janel is one of the supporting characters in Sheena. 

Yetta Dula - Yetta is one of the rivals of Sheena queen of the Jungle. 

Melina Rayburn - Melina is one of the more interesting characters of the Sheena series. She is Sheena’s and Jason’s daughter. 

Madelyn Zebba Wyler - Richard Thorne’s girlfriend and later wife. She is Sheena’s arrogant and often cocky neighbour. 

Ian Hollister - Based on Mowg, The Bush Boy. 

Kaki - Koba’s mother and Ella’s grandmother. 

Michael Connelly Thorne - Michael is Richard Thorne’s Father and Husband to Jess. 

Meena Sen - A Bengali friend of Connor Rayburn and co. 

Jacob Thorne - Jacob was the scion of the Thorne family of disgruntled catholic missionaries. His much older brother, Green eyed Michael, introduced him to the jungle and savannah animals and befriend a few of them. 

Myna Rayburn - Connor’s wife and the Rayburn siblings’ mother. 

Shan Leakey - Cool Kid raised by natives in the Village. 

Saturnino Farandola: King of Fashionistas Part 1

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"Extraordinary journeys of Saturnino Farandola in the 5 or 6 parts of the world and in all the countries visited and not visited by Giulio Verne" (Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul dans le 5 ou 6 parties du monde visited and ne pas visités par Jules Verne) , is a fantasy-exotic novel written by the French writer, illustrator and journalist Albert Robida in 1879. Robida, who has made several books dealing with science fiction, adventure, history, etc. he also illustrated the novel with many beautiful drawings.

The novel tells of the adventures and misadventures of Saturnino Farandola, who, torn by a storm from the ship he was on board with his parents, finds himself, still a child, on an island in Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean inhabited by large monkeys. from which it is bred. But he does not adapt to the life of monkeys and, when he becomes an adult, he goes to sea and is taken aboard the "Bella Leocadia" of the commander "Earthworm". During their travels, they land on an island in Borneo where they find large turtles that sailors enjoy riding; they suffer the attack of Malaysian pirates and the commander Earthworm leaves us his feathers; then Saturnino succeeds him in command and thus begins a series of journeys around the world and also in space, meeting many famous characters created by Jules Verne.

The first is Captain Nemo with his Nautilus, who intervenes to help the sailors against the pirates. From the Mysterious Island, Farandola then reaches Australia, with the ship being pulled by a whale; then the United States where, among Indians and bandits, he meets Fogg who has embarked on a new journey around the world to beat his previous record. The two characters meet again in Nicaragua, divided between the southern state, where Fogg is located, and the northern one, where Saturnino is located. The two states enter the war and the two characters lead their respective troops using futuristic and bizarre weapons. The winner is Saturnino, who then leaves again for his fantastic travels, in Africa and even in space reaching Saturn. Back on Earth we find him in Asia looking for the lost "White Elephant" in Siam, then India, Tibet, China, Japan, North Pole and Russia. Finally he returns to his island of Pomotù where he ends his wandering in the company of his dear monkeys.

The film and the script.

An Italian silent film was shot on the character in 1913: "The extraordinary adventures of Saturnino Farandola", directed and starring Marcel Fabre, with Nilde Baracchi (Mysora) and others. The film consists of 4 episodes: "The island of the monkeys", "In search of the white elephant", "The queen of the Makalolos", "Farandola against Fogg". And a television script was also made, again in Italian, which started on Thursday 7 April 1977 on Rete Due within the "Tv2 Ragazzi": "Saturnino Farandola"; screenplay by Raffaele Meloni and Norman Mozzato; scenography by Paolo Petti; music by Ettore De Carolis; directed by Raffaele Meloni. 13 episodes lasting about half an hour each made at the studios of the Naples TV Production Center.

The protagonist is played by the Italian actor Mariano Rigillo, in the double guise of protagonist and narrator. Among the other protagonists we have: Attilio Cucari (Bora-Bora, the leader of the pirates), Emilio Marchesini (Mandibola), Silvio Anselmo (Capitan Lombrico), Daria Nicolodi (Bumbaja, the right arm of Bora Bora), Giovanni Poggiali, Donatina De Carolis, Bonnie Foy, Claudia Lawrence and Flavio Colombaioni (Saturnino as a child).

In the first broadcast, which ended on June 2, 1977, only 9 of the 13 episodes were broadcast; the remaining 4 (plus 1 link) were broadcast in December of the same year. It was re-broadcast, in full in the first rerun which began on June 2, 1980 and ended on the 30 of the same month. Each episode began with the audience waiting in the 1896 “Lumiere” cinema room; with different characteristic "characters": the "Impatient" lady, the "Emotional" one, the "Romantic", the "Curiosa", the gentleman "with the bowler", the "Well informed" one, "the Ironic", and so on . In the drama, of the five continents crossed by Farandola's travels, there are only three: Oceania, Asia and Africa, before returning to the island of Pomotù.

GHU's Foodies

GHU's Fast Foodies

Vesuvius Pizza: Vesuvius Pizza is among the oldest fast food restaurants in Springfield, running for over a hundred years. 

Moe's: Moe's was founded over a hundred years ago, as the original Scorpio’s. When it relaunched in 1970, it got renamed as Moe’s and the current name stuck. 

Lard Lad: Lard Lad was a dairy farm until it became a donut company. Founded in August 1895, by the untestable Richard Porter. It has an offshoot focusing on folk music named Bard Lad, which was founded in August 1930. 

Roadside Dinner: Pine Valley’s famed oldest surviving solo fast food restaurant. Founded in 1920 by a wonderful missionary orphan turned cook named Darien McCook, Roadside Dinner has long been a boon for lower class families when it comes to sustainable high quality fast food at a low price. 

The Rusty Barnacle: Founded by Supra Selleck In 1946 as a Valencian Spanish seafood restaurant, the Rusty Barnacle gained its scuba mascot in 1960. 

Cluck Cluck Chicken Shack: Founded by the irresistible Jockey Winslow in 1953. It has a division named Snack Shack. 

The Malaria Zone: Founded In 1960 by Honduran immigrants, The Malaria Zone gained its Jeep mascot in 1967. 

Wall E. Weasel’s: Wall E. Weasel’s is a family fast food chain focusing on musicals, arcade games, pizza and fries. Founded in 1967, Its divisions are the Internationally themed Mackie Macaw’s (which was founded in 1956 and got acquired by WEW in 1974 during Watergate) and the sport focused Family Fun Centre.

Thai Palace: Founded in 1974 by Thai Hmong immigrants, Thai Palace is one of the best Asian restaurants in Springfield. 

Johnny Fiestas: Founded In 1977 by Johnny Melendez, Johnny Fiestas focuses on Mexican food. 

Swanky Fish: Swanky Fish was founded by a pair of Otakus in 1981 as a snack bar with sushi as the main deal. 

Chilean Tarzan clones! Part 2

The nationalization and ideologization of the comic strip.

The election of Salvador Allende and the extreme ideologization of the country even reached the comics, with the famous book To read Donald Duck by Ariel Dorfmann and Armand Matelart. In this historical context, the great Editorial Zig Zag is expropriated and transformed into Editorial Quimantú, changing the content of the comics in a process that did not always give good results.

The scheme of Editorial Quimantú, the new state entity, transforms the individual work maintained by Zig Zag, in a collective, with discussion of the issues in assemblies and the political decision of the magazines and the content to publish, nationalising the production and content. A good example was seen in the jungle adventures.

The magazine El Intocable is transformed into a political tool for ideological revision, attacking the African colonial system, supporting the revolts for independence, gradually transforming itself into a leader of the blacks who fight for decolonisation, changing their leopard skin clothing for pants and boots. At the same time, the quality of the drawings decreases and Mizomba takes a second place in the limelight, presenting the comic strip by Manuel Rodríguez, the Guerrilla fighter and one by fishermen, "The Five of La Aurora". The loss of the market ends with its transformation into a Guerilla Magazine. in 1972.

In "Jungle", Mawa's luck is similar, although it is not manipulated to the extremes of Mizomba. It happens to occupy a secondary plane, but it is still present in the covers, which maintain a more daring style, coming to show her bathing naked in a river. He continues his tour of India, along with the faithful Damayanti, in a permanent fight with Diavolo, a criminal genius, almost removed from the subject of jungle adventures. Its cartoonists are R. Poblete, Lincoln Fuentes, who also makes the covers, C. Mora and Roberto Tapia (Tom).

In the Jungle, already transferred from Zig Zag to Quimantú, a series called Hombres en la Jungla (Men in the Jungle) is presented, which takes center stage and even subtitles the magazine at some point. They are the adventures of a group of revolutionaries from some South American country whose plane has fallen in the jungle. The struggle for survival, with limited means, the contact and friendship of the indigenous people, plus the constant danger of being attacked by the forces of the "Dictator", not identified but identifiable, are the constants. In addition, the emergence of love conflicts and the existence of white groups that seek the exploitation of indigenous people and jungle resources. The scripts are by Ventura Marín and the drawings by Lincoln Fuentes, Julio Berrios and a woman, María Cristina Jorquera. In addition, as a complementary series, of short duration, it appears that Man and nature, which with a didactic nature presents the relations of man with the environment and ecology. Drawings by H. Jofre.

Post-coup comics of 1973

At the end of the Popular Unity period, with the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, Editorial Quimantú changed its name to Editorial Gabriela Mistral, keeping only some of the existing magazines, mainly from the west and its jungle obsession.

In Jungla after a time when Mawa is no longer a cartoon of the jungle, but of adventures in a land called Kismet, she is taken away to another dimension and at No. 173, they present a heroine who moves between science fiction and sword and witchcraft. She is a blonde Amazon, inhabitant of a fourth-dimensional world called Kismet, accompanied by two former Mawa companions. The script is by José Zamorano and the drawings by Mario Igor. Also collaborating are Fernando Vergara, Lincoln Fuentes and Julio Berrios.

The aforementioned series is complemented with self-concluding episodes referring to Africa, with stories of black tribes and Arabs of the desert. The scripts are by Jorge Yañez and the drawings by Hildegardo and Mario Igor, Santiago Peñailillo, and Ernesto López. In addition, an educational series by María Cristina Jorquera, La Maravillosa Naturaleza.

The same publishing house, in 1974, presented a new magazine of El Intocable, with a new numbering, which, following the jungle theme, ventures more strongly into the theme of lost or unknown areas. Mizomba continues with the leading role, hand in hand with a mestizo son, with mental power. Drawings by Hildegardo Igor and Mario Igor, with scripts by José Zamorano. It does not achieve the success of its predecessor and ends after a score of numbers. The main comic is complemented by series in concert with continuity, especially related to the African desert and the Arabs. The scripts are by Jorge Yañez and the drawings by Hernán Contreras and Ernesto López.

In 1975, Editorial Pinsel - Dilapsa announced, without specifying, a magazine called Adventures in the Jungle. Editorial Publisa publishes magazines such as Winchester, Red Lightning and Pif Paf, in which there are occasionally adventures in the jungle. In Rayo Rojo, the Masai Master series from Kenya is presented, a script by Leonardo S. and drawings by Carlos Mora.

From Mampato magazine we will mention the following series with jungle adventure content: In 1974 a magnificent story in the jungle, with black protagonists, two hunters: The man-eater of Manuel Cardenas. In 1975 a great series by Máximo Carvajal - Dina and Nino in the lost land of Mu - with two children in a land where different civilizations mix. Also in the Inca civilisation, there is a young Tantan from Oskar (Oscar Vega).

Lincoln Fuentes in the drawings and Ventura Marín in the scripts present between 1975 and 1976 the notes of Emilio Basset of a didactic nature, which would also have comics of this hunter set in the Amazon. In 1977, Mario Igor in the drawing and Adrián Rocca in the script, Mampato presents the story of Kio, a young white man in the Amazon jungle fighting with ambitious explorers. Santiago Peñailillo ventures into the subject with Kouma the white queen (la reina blanca), defender of the weak from some remote part of the African jungle.

Decline of traditional adventure

After years of no fuss in jungle adventure comics, we have a return in grand style. On January 6, 1980 the great comic project of La Tercera arises, a Sunday supplement, in color, with a predominance of Chilean material, in full page and in a folletin or continued style. A character born in the magazine, from Themo Lobos, Pimpín, the Adventurer, set in the early twentieth century, in his third story, starting with No. 40 of the supplement, of October 5, 1980, begins an African adventure with his friend O’Tully and a phlegmatic English military man.

It would take more than 6 years for a return on the subject in the youth magazine Dos Puntos, a creation of the National Foundation of Culture, Chile Films and Diario de la Nación, in 1987, it has Waco, a sailor in the Amazon, populated by lost peoples, drawn by Enrique Espinosa.

It is 1988 the great year of comics, Acido, Trauko, Bandido, Matucana magazines and others appear, most of them fanzines style, without showing more interest in the subject. In Trauko, Nos. 3 and 4, an adventure classic Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt is presented in an episode called Leopards set in the Congo.

At the end of the 1980s, in 1989, Editorial Condel S.A. launches in black and white and with 64 pages a great adventure comic magazine: Alacrán. Their material was preferably English and Spanish, but Chilean authors also collaborate. Worth mentioning are the adventures of two children in Africa, Ann and Dan, by the Italian Hugo Pratt, carried out during their stay in Argentina. They reveal a greater realism than the average of these comics. In addition, the adventures of a photographer, Johny Focus, in various places, especially jungle areas, by Attilio Micheluzzi.

In 1989, reviving Mampato's scheme a bit, Cachipún was published by the Sociedad de Ediciones Molino Ltda, format 16 x 23 centimeters, with 28 pages, in black white, for color exceptions. The magazine is directed by Maximo Carvajal, who is replacing his series Dina and Nino in the lost land of Mu, about two young people in a mysterious area of ​​the Amazon jungle, their first part already published in the Mampato magazine and without being finished the second part, originally censored in Mampato.

In 1991 the magazine Plop! by Pepo Producciones, in which a series called Gorigo and Orangloton is presented, along the lines of humanized animals, of a humorous nature, by Mico.

In the decade of the 90s, a boom in national comic books has continued for a few years, but it declined due to the flood of international comic books at a low price, these are the years of American superheroes (some even published in Chile), the Spanish author's comic or French, the manga phenomenon in comics and television and the excess of picaresque or pornographic magazines. There is no current Chilean jungle adventure cartoon.

January 2003.

The most influential families of the GHU

16. The Shins: Rainier and his older brother Maxim (aka Max) Wolfcastle are the biracial birth children of two political traitors who lived in South Korea for a long time. Their mother, a rather clunky titian haired North Austrian, wasn’t a heavy accented speaker though their father, an avid fan of gossip and warplanes, surely was. 

15. The Quartermaine Webbers: The Webbers have interbred with the Springfields and various other families, to the point that many of them are descendants of Hans Springfield and his daughter Mrs Webber. 

14. The Buchanan Pelekai Lords: The Lords and the Pelekai Family are rather interrelated to the Buchanans, which is possible because the two franchises they belong to are Disney assets. 

13. The Forbes Edmonds Clan: It’s definitely possible that the Forbeses are now interrelated to The Aldens and the primarily Hawaii-based Edmonds Family.  

12. The Szyslaks: This influential European American family of the Simpsons fame is definitely on the plain screwed up side of things. 

11. The Gresham Union: This Union is mostly aristocratically British in rank, though a growing multiracial array of Turkmen, Austrian, North Sorbian, Middle Russian, French, Andalusian, Lebanese, Hungarian, Greco-Turkish, Ashkenazi Jewish, and North Ukrainian ancestries are increasingly common as well. 

10. The Bloomsbury Mistry Khan Clan: This fairly large and wealthy but non-aristocratic Clan mostly has origins in Iran and the UK, though bits of North Indian, Pashtun, Middle Russian, Tajik, Irish and Buryat Mongol ancestry have also been hinted as well. 

9. The Cassadines: The Cassadines aren’t always screwed up for much of their history until Eugenius was born. But it’s definitely possible that after Eugenius became a leader of sorts, they emulated their former foes in a rather doggedly fantastic way, only to really succeed when Helena became the unexpected matriarch because she’s technically the last real Cassadine to actually bear that damn surname.  

8. The Corbins: The Corbins are one messed up American bunch, primarily of Irish and Greek ancestry. 

7. The Quimby McConnells: The main branch is definitely both of Old Money and Medieval Royalty heritage, while the rest are middle class twits. 

6. The Mankiewicz Chandlers: This screwed up family has shown scars of Mankiewicz and Quartermaine madness from the ground up since the end of the 19th century.