(December 1955)
Dell,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor)
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
Indexer Notes
Tarzan and monkeys eating bananas (painting). Cover pencil, ink, & color credits from Ken Webber (December 17, 2003).
This is Gollub's work. Muscle representation, the chimps, the detail on head hands, and feet, Use of tone are all stylistic traits of Morris Gollub. The previous editor could not decide between Gollub or George Wilson.
Tarazan and the Eagles of Engani
Tarzan / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- 5512
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tarzan, where does this river go?
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; N'Kima; Lukambo; Illona; eagle men (African tribe)
- Synopsis
- While exploring a distant valley, Tarzan and N'Kima encounter a tribe that uses trained eagles as hunting animals. The eagle men have imprisoned a man from an enemy tribe and are preparing to let their eagles kill him when Tarzan rescues the man and restores him to his fiancee.
- Keywords
- bolas; Engani (African valley); fishing; hunting eagles
The Cheetah Cubs
Mabu / text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mabu moved noiselessly through a tangle of hibiscus vines into a small clearing.
- Genre
- jungle
Tarzan and the Jungle Misfits
Tarzan / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On a warm jungle morning, Tarzan loiters with two of his friends…
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Jad-Bal-Ja; Imongo; Jacobs; Poley; Kiboko (hippopotamus); Morobos (African tribe)
- Synopsis
- Tarzan rescues two hunters who had been abandoned by their bearers and guides.
- Keywords
- ants; baboons; the Valley of the Leopards
[no title indexed]
Brothers of the Spear / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This room is my private armory!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Dan-El; Natongo; Tavane; Molithi; Elona; Nana; M'Buru; Chui; Umali; Inkosi (elephant)
- Synopsis
- After her failed attempt to assassinate Molithi, Nana flees M'tembo with all of the kingdom's war elephants, save Inkosi. The brothers and Milithi pursue.
- Reprints
-
in Brothers of the Spear Archives (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (February 2013)
-
- Keywords
- elephants; howdahs; M'tembo (African kingdom)
Indexer Notes
Episode 51
Call the Doctor
illustration / 0.67 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Synopsis
- Portrait of a witch doctor
- Keywords
- stereotyping of African natives; witch doctors
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
1.
["It shoots harmless cork ball bullets..."]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns -
2.
Tarazan and the Eagles of Engani
Tarzan -
3.
The Cheetah Cubs
Mabu -
4.
Tarzan and the Jungle Misfits
Tarzan -
5.
["This room is my private armory!"]
Brothers of the Spear -
6.
Call the Doctor
-
7.
[no title indexed]
-
8.
["This year make Christmas more fun..."]
Dell Publishing Co. -
9.
["Just in time for Christmas..."]
Schwinn Bicycles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Richard Richmond
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Douglas Sederberg
- Jim Van Dore
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