Four Color
#161 - Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr
(August 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-07-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "TARZAN AND THE FIRES OF TOHR, No. 161." Code number is T.O.S. #161-478. Copyright 1947 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 336. Last Tarzan Four Color. Continues with Tarzan (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948).
Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr
Tarzan / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan
- Reprints
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in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1 (February 2009), #1 (February 2009) [cover] - in Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years Omnibus (Dark Horse, 2017 series) #1 (February 2017)
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Tarzan's Friends
Tarzan / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan; Bolgani (gorilla); Tantor (elephant); Manu (monkey); Mangani (ape)
- Synopsis
- Descriptions of Tarzan's animal friends.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr
Tarzan / comic story / 30 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Paul D'Arnot; James Barton; Ruth Barton; Queen Ahtea; Mungo; Ukah
- Synopsis
- Tarzan and his friend Paul D'Arnot find Professor James Barton and his daughter Ruth alone in the jungle after their bearers had deserted them. The quartet is attacked by hostile natives and have to flee by canoe. A swift and unexplored river sends the canoe through a long rock tunnel and when they emerge they find themselves in the land of Queen Ahtea and the lost city of Tohr. The Queen decides that Tarzan would make a good husband and King. When Tarzan does not agree with her plans, he and his friends must escape from the Queen's dungeons.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story is complete, but setting is continued in Tarzan (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948).
Tarzan and the Black Panther
Tarzan / comic story / 18 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Muviro; Sala; Sidi Ben Yemlik; Helen Robertson; Timaru
- Synopsis
- Tarzan and his friend Muviro battle the Arab slave trader Sidi Ben Yemlik, known as the Black Panther.
- Reprints
Jungle Animals
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- animal; jungle
- Synopsis
- List of Tarzan's names for the jungle animals: Numa = lion; Pacco = zebra; Sheeta = leopard; Duro = hippopotamus; Dango = Hyena; Gimla = crocodile.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
[Tarzan Holds Man Aloft]
Tarzan / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan
- Synopsis
- Tarzan holds a white hunter over his head. Battle scene from "Tarzan and the Black Panther."
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Full-page illustration.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr
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1.
Tarzan's Friends
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Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr
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3.
Tarzan and the Black Panther
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4.
Jungle Animals
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5.
[Tarzan Holds Man Aloft]
Tarzan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Steve Dasinger
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Dave Porta
- Mark Q
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