([August-September] 1974)

DC, 1972 Series
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Price
1.00 USD
Pages
84
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1974-05-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
The Line of DC Super-Stars
Editing
E. Nelson Bridwell; Allan Asherman (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION, No. C-29. Published bi-monthly by NATIONAL PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, Inc., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10019. Carmine Infantino, Publisher. E. Nelson Bridwell, Editor. Allan Asherman, Assistant Editor. Sol Harrison, Vice-President--Production Manager. Copyright © 1974 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this magazine are entirely fictional. No actual persons, living or dead, are intended or should be inferred. Printed in the U.S.A.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #106.

The Return of Tarzan (Table of Contents)

Tarzan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
Sol Harrison
Letters
typeset

Job Number
N-1019
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Tarzan / table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell ?
Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Letters
Joe Letterese ?

Job Number
N-1018
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Return of Tarzan, Part 1: Trial by Treachery (Table of Contents: 2)

Tarzan / comic story / 17.5 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Joe Kubert (original editor)

Job Number
N-1001
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo); Paul Darnot
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tarzan's Animal Facts / cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Horace Elmo
Inks
Horace Elmo
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp ?
Editing
?

Job Number
K-1240
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Why is the proboscis monkey so-called and where does it live?
Genre
non-fiction; animal
Reprints
  • From ?

Part 2: Fury in the Desert (Table of Contents: 4)

Tarzan / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils
Joe Kubert
Inks
Joe Kubert
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese ?
Editing
Joe Kubert (original editor)

Job Number
N-1002
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo); Paul Darnot
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence.

Part 3: Back to the Primitive (Table of Contents: 5)

Tarzan / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils
Joe Kubert
Inks
Joe Kubert
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza ?
Editing
Joe Kubert (original editor)

Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence. Likely this is job number N-1003, but it's not labeled.

[Pinup] (Table of Contents: 6)

Tarzan / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?

Job Number
N-1016
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter

Indexer Notes

Double sized pinup of Tarzan rescuing a blond woman from alligators or crocodiles.

How to Draw Tarzan's Animals (Table of Contents: 7)

Tarzan / activity / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Kubert
Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
N-1017
Genre
jungle; adventure
Reprints

Indexer Notes

How to draw an ape, elephant, lion, and alligator or crocodile.

Part 4: The City of Gold (Table of Contents: 8)

Tarzan / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza ?
Editing
Joe Kubert (original editor)

Job Number
N-1004
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence.

[Word Puzzle] (Table of Contents: 9)

Tarzan's Word Puzzle / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
P-26

Indexer Notes

Fill in the words to get a quote from the original novel.

Part 5: The Pit of Doom! (Table of Contents: 10)

Tarzan / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils
Joe Kubert
Inks
Joe Kubert
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza ?
Editing
Joe Kubert (original editor)

Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan; Jane Porter
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence. Likely this is job number N-1005, but it's not labeled.

Is Tarzan Alive? (Table of Contents: 11)

Tarzan / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell ?
Pencils
Joe Kubert (head shot illo)
Inks
Joe Kubert (head shot illo)
Letters
typeset

Job Number
N-1020
Genre
jungle; adventure
Characters
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. The noted science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer claims in a book that Tarzan is based on a real man, who he interviewed. Truth or fiction? At the bottom of the page is the answer for the word search puzzle.

Tarzan of the Apes (Table of Contents: 12)

Table-Top Diorama / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Joe Kubert
Inks
Joe Kubert
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
N-1021
Genre
jungle
Characters
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Return of Tarzan
    Tarzan
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Tarzan
  3. 2. The Return of Tarzan, Part 1: Trial by Treachery
    Tarzan
  4. 3. ["Why is the proboscis monkey so-called and where does it live?"]
    Tarzan's Animal Facts
  5. 4. Part 2: Fury in the Desert
    Tarzan
  6. 5. Part 3: Back to the Primitive
    Tarzan
  7. 6. [Pinup]
    Tarzan
  8. 7. How to Draw Tarzan's Animals
    Tarzan
  9. 8. Part 4: The City of Gold
    Tarzan
  10. 9. [Word Puzzle]
    Tarzan's Word Puzzle
  11. 10. Part 5: The Pit of Doom!
    Tarzan
  12. 11. Is Tarzan Alive?
    Tarzan
  13. 12. Tarzan of the Apes
    Table-Top Diorama
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