Groo Meets Tarzan #3

(October 2021)

Sergio Aragonés Groo Meets Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés; Tom Yeates

Inks

Sergio Aragonés; Tom Yeates

Colors

Tom Luth

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As Mark navigates through the dangers of Comic-Con International, Sergio - still lost in the Chula Vista Safari Jungle Land - meets snakes, vultures, and more lions!

Characters

Groo; Tarzan [Lord Greystoke]

Synopsis

Introduction and credits for the issue.

Keywords

credits; introduction

Indexer Notes

Color on inside front cover.

[Groo Meets Tarzan Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 2)

Groo the Wanderer; Tarzan / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited); Mark Evanier (credited)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (credited) (Groo pages); Tom Yeates (credited as Thomas Yeates) (Tarzan pages)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (credited) (Groo pages); Tom Yeates (credited as Thomas Yeates) (Tarzan pages)

Colors

Tom Luth (credited)

Letters

Stan Sakai (credited) (Groo pages); Adam Pruett (credited) (Tarzan pages)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Back on the floor of Comic-Con International...

Genre

adventure; humor; jungle; sword and sorcery

Characters

Groo; Tarzan [Lord Greystoke]; Rufferto; Sergio Aragonés; Mark Evanier; many attendees of Comic-Con International San Diego; would-be rival cartoonist; Safari Land ticket taker; various Safari Land animals; various Safari Land tourists; Candy Brown (animal rights advocate); Tarzan's chimpanzee (Cheetah?) (Tarzan's world); trio of armed slaver scouts (Tarzan's world); various slavers at encampment (Tarzan's world); leader of the slavers (Tarzan's world); Queen Tu-Ran of the Swallatees (Tarzan's world); Swallatee villagers (Tarzan's world); inhabitants of Ungara (Groo's world); elder of Ungara (Groo's world)

Synopsis

Still lost within the far reaches of a run-down California safari park, Sergio Aragonés is now covered in smelly garbage and wearing a dead raccoon's skin around his waist. Mark Evanier resumes the search for Sergio now aided by Candy Brown. In Pal-ul-don, Tarzan takes-out the trio of armed slaver scouts from the end of last issue, with only marginal "help" from Groo. Groo, wishing to help Tarzan raise an army to defeat the slavers, travels back through the cavern passages to Ungara to round up more fighters - but, by the time he arrives, he's more interested in Ungara's "wonderful food".

Keywords

alligators; character crossover; comic-con; different worlds; exploring; hippos; jungle setting; lions; monkeys; Pal-ul-don; safari park; slave traders; snakes

Indexer Notes

The story unfolds among three very different worlds... the "real" world of comic-cons and safari parks, Groo's world (both cartoon-illustrated by Sergio Aragonés), and Tarzan's world (realistically illustrated by Thomas Yeates).

Tarzan's chimpanzee is unnamed in this story.

GOOD BIT:
So that Groo might raise an army of fighters for Tarzan, ever-loyal dog Rufferto leads Groo back from Pal-ul-don through the cavern passages to Ungara - by a unique method...

RUFFERTO 1(thinks): "I am just following the smell of Groo IN REVERSE!
RUFFERTO 2(thinks): "You leave a little of yourself wherever you go!"

Groo Grams (Table of Contents: 3)

Groo Grams / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Evanier (signed)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration of Groo, illustration of Groo and Rufferto)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration of Groo, illustration of Groo and Rufferto)

Colors

Tom Luth

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In case you don't count any better than Groo does, this is the third of four issues.

Feature Logo

Groo Grams [Groo reading letter]

Characters

Groo; Rufferto (in illustrations)

Keywords

crossovers; dogs; letters of comment

Indexer Notes

Topics include: Mark's insistence that a reader's letter has arrived too late to get into this letter column - in response to that very same letter... TWICE, Groo crossing over with Usagi Yojimbo, and praise for Rufferto from a reader's dog.

Sergio Aragonés Groo Meets Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Groo the Wanderer; Tarzan / preview (from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Having Spots Doesn't Make You a Leopard!] (Table of Contents: 5)

Rufferto / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés; Mark Evanier

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés

Inks

Sergio Aragonés

Colors

Tom Luth

Letters

Stan Sakai ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

ROWARR!

Feature Logo

Rufferto [lower-case letters]

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Rufferto; apes; leopard

Synopsis

In a jungle, Rufferto pretends to be a leopard to scare a bunch of apes.

Keywords

apes; best-laid-plans; dog; jungle setting; leopard; unwelcome surprise

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Color on back cover.