(July 1954)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor)
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Art credits from Richard Richmond, via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6282); Ken Webber had previously (December 17, 2003) suggested the possibility of crediting George Wilson or Gollub.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tarzan, my friend, I believe there is only one beast in Pal-ul-don against whom your great buffalo would have no chance of victory!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Taden; Alice Jenner; Paul Jenner; Gorgo (giant buffalo)
- Synopsis
- While visiting A-lur, Tarzan learns of the appearance of some giant white apes. He goes to investigate and finds the apes and their captive, a white woman, Alice Jenner. He helps Alice escape and the pursuit of the apes is cut off by Alice's husband Paul, bearing a rifle.
- Keywords
- A-lur [Alur](Pal-ul-donian city); airplanes; garths (tyrannosaurids); giant white apes; gryfs (ceratopsids); Kor-ul-gryf (Pal-ul-donian valley); Lake of the Thipdars (Pal-ul-donian lake); lava; the dum-dum; volcanos
Indexer Notes
Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is given as "The White Apes."
[no title indexed]
Boy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wake up, Jad-bal-ja!
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Boy [Jack Clayton]; Jab-bal-ja; Isilo
- Synopsis
- Boy and Jad-bal-ja watch a young Waziri battle an ostrich in order to claim its plumes for his warrior's headdress. The warrior is attacked by more ostriches and Boy and Jad-bal-ja go to his rescue, each killing another ostrich. Boy claims the plumes.
- Keywords
- headdresses; manhood rituals; ostriches
Indexer Notes
Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is "The Plumed Warrior."
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Down there -- in the Valley of the Lost Legion -- I have a rendezvous with death!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Sergius Rufus; Nicanor; Brutus Sanguinarius
- Synopsis
- Keeping his promise to return to Castra Sanguinarius, Tarzan witnesses the kidnapping of a Castra Mare tribune's son. Tarzan follows the kidnappers to Castra Sanguinarius and enters the gladiatorial games to rescue the son. With the help of a band of baboons, he succeeds.
- Keywords
- ancient Roman galleys; ancient Rome; baboons; Castra Sanguinarius (lost city of Pal-ul-don); Castrum Mare (lost city of Pal-ul-don lake); cornus; fishing spears; gladiatorial games; leopards; Roman legionnnaires
Indexer Notes
Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is given as "A Rendezvous with Death."
The Hyena Attacks
Mabu / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Elizabeth Beecher
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- jungle
Indexer Notes
Page 1496 of Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, SERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS states, "WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY. The hyena attacks. (In Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, July 1954, p. [40-41]) Appl. Author: Western Print. & Litho. Co., employer for hire of Elizabeth Beecher. © Western Print. & Litho. Co.; 8Jun54; B5-28260." ~Dave Porta
[no title indexed]
Brothers of the Spear / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Umph... Ugh... Natongo!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Dan-El; Natongo
- Synopsis
- Dan-El and scavenge food, clothing, and weapons from the wreck of the slavers' ship.
- Reprints
-
in Brothers of the Spear Archives (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #1 (January 2012)
-
- Keywords
- biltong; hyenas
Indexer Notes
Page 1495 of Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, SERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS states, "WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY. Brothers of the spear. (In Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan) Appl. Author: Western Print. & Litho. Co., employer for hire of Gaylord Du Bois. © Western Print. & Litho. Co. Jul54. © 8Jun; B5-28259." ~Dave Porta
Episode 34
"Spark up...to pick-off a base-runner!"
advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- sports
- Characters
- Roy Campanella
- Synopsis
- Brooklyn Dodgers' catcher Roy Campanella gives tips on picking off a base runner.
- Reprints
- from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (Dell, 1950 series) #151 (May 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Ad in comics form for Wheaties breakfast cereal. Part of "Spark Up with Wheaties" series.
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
1.
["Tarzan, my friend, I believe there is only one beast in Pal-ul-don against whom your great buffalo would have no chance of victory!"]
Tarzan -
2.
["Wake up, Jad-bal-ja!"]
Boy -
3.
["Down there -- in the Valley of the Lost Legion -- I have a rendezvous with death!"]
Tarzan -
4.
The Hyena Attacks
Mabu -
5.
["Umph... Ugh... Natongo!"]
Brothers of the Spear -
6.
[Rabbit's Foot]
-
7.
"Spark up...to pick-off a base-runner!"
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Dave Porta
- Richard Richmond
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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