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Although racism is unfortunately common at least in the Tarzan stories written by ERB, it is still more commonly superseded by the fact that Edgar Rice Burroughs himself was a cliche storm of both a writer and a person in almost any way possible.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.
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