(April 1956)
Dell,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956-03-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor); George Delacorte (credited as George T. Delacorte, Jr.) (president); Helen Meyer (credited) (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (credited) (vice-president); Western Printing & Lithographing Co. (credited) (designed, produced)
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub ? (painting); George Wilson ? (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub ? (painting); George Wilson ? (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub ? (painting); George Wilson ? (painting)
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]
- Synopsis
- Tarzan with basket of fruit
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
George Wilson cover pencil, ink, and color credits from Ken Webber (December 17, 2003). Richard Richmond says this is a Morris Gollub painting.
Tarzan and the Black Cloaks
Tarzan / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- 564
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere in the strange valley, Borok, the great ape, has disappeared, arousing Tarzan's curiosity…
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Borok (ape); Targorgo (white Cape buffalo)
- Synopsis
- Tarzan frees a group of monkeys from slavery to a baboon band and then, with the white Cape buffalos, drives the baboons away.
- Keywords
- baboons; Cape buffalos; monkeys
The Gods Speak
Mabu / text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At the edge of the camp of the hunters, Kaino sat atop a low, rounded rock…
- Genre
- jungle
Buto Takes a Vow
Tarzan / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One lazy afternoon at Tarzan's house nothing but litle N'kima's chattering disturbs the jungle's peace…
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Boy [Jack Clayton]; Jane Porter Clayton; Tarzan [John Clayton]; N'Kima; Buto
- Synopsis
- Tarzan and Buto hunt and kill a pair of leopards that had been raiding Buto's people.
- Keywords
- treehouses
[no title indexed]
Brothers of the Spear / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Unknown to the people of Aba-Zulu, their King, Dan-El and his foster brother, Natongo, approach home...
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Dan-El; Natongo; Tavane; Mothibi; Ulangi; Okava; Nagopa
- Synopsis
- In the absence of Dan-El, Mothibi and Ulangi lead an attack of Nagopa's forces in southern Aba-Zulu.
- Reprints
-
in Brothers of the Spear Archives (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (February 2013)
-
- Keywords
- elephants; howdahs
Indexer Notes
Episode 55
Jungle Candy
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Zulus (African tribe)
- Synopsis
- Portrait of a young Zulu.
- Keywords
- sugar cane
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
1.
["Hey kids! It's Red Goose treasurama time again"]
Red Goose Shoes -
2.
Tarzan and the Black Cloaks
Tarzan -
3.
The Gods Speak
Mabu -
4.
Buto Takes a Vow
Tarzan -
5.
["Unknown to the people of Aba-Zulu, their King, Dan-El and his foster brother, Natongo, approach home..."]
Brothers of the Spear -
6.
Jungle Candy
-
7.
Subscribe Now to Tarzan Comics
Tarzan -
8.
["Zip-a-dee doo-dah! Says Br'er Rabbit..."]
Scotch Tape
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Dasinger
- Mike DeLisa
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Richard Richmond
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Douglas Sederberg
- Jim Van Dore
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