(October 1952)
Dell,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-09-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date as per copyright date.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan (photo of Lex Barker)
- Reprints
in 
Tarzan and the Mysterious Giants
Tarzan / comic story / 24 pages
- Job Number
- 5210
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Walu (mangani); Kontino; Torik (mangani)
- Synopsis
- Tarzan discovers a tribe of giants who appear to be descended from lost English settlers of an earlier century. The giants' village -- and presumably the giants -- is destroyed in a volcanic eruption.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- dynamite; giants; human sacrifice; leopards; the dum-dum; volcanos
Tarzan and the Old Man Baboon
Tarzan / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Gelado (baboon); Bayliss; Hassan; Gurah; Habib
- Synopsis
- Tarzan is captured by a band of shiftas. He is rescued by a group of baboons whose leader he had nursed back to health.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- first aid; lions; medicinal herbs; safari cars; shiftas; ventriloquism
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tarzan has many friends in the jungle... here he rides his friend, the gnu!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]
- Synopsis
- A portrait of Tarzan mounted on a gnu.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- gnus
Taboos
Mabu / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Elizabeth Beecher
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- jungle
Indexer Notes
Writer credit as per page 1115 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1952 Books and Pamphlets Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 6 Pt 1B.
[no title indexed]
Brothers of the Spear / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tell me, Dan-El, my brother -- are yonder peaks the mountains of your dream?
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Dan-El; Natongo
- Synopsis
- Dan-El and Natongo reach the mountains of Dan-El's people. They find a tunnel through the mountains and emerge in a burial chamber of kings.
- Reprints
-
in Brothers of the Spear Archives (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #1 (January 2012)
-
- Keywords
- funerary customs; rhinoceroses; snakes
Indexer Notes
Episode 13
[Tarzan and N'Kima]
Tarzan / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; N'Kima
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
inside back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
1.
["This big full-color pin-pp is yours free!"]
-
2.
Tarzan and the Mysterious Giants
Tarzan -
3.
Tarzan and the Old Man Baboon
Tarzan -
4.
["Tarzan has many friends in the jungle... here he rides his friend, the gnu!"]
Tarzan -
5.
Taboos
Mabu -
6.
["Tell me, Dan-El, my brother -- are yonder peaks the mountains of your dream?"]
Brothers of the Spear -
7.
[Tarzan and N'Kima]
Tarzan
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- Chris Boyko
- Steve Dasinger
- Mike Nielsen
- Dave Porta
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
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