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Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips Volume 3 collects daily Tarzan strips from August 1971-Julyl 1972 plus the Sunday strips from January 24, 1971 through March 17, 1974.
So volumes 1, 2, and 4 of this series can easily be had for below cover price but gouger dickheads have been charging upwards of $150 for volume three here. Fortunately, I scored this from a Half Price Books in Washington for a cool $29.99. Good things come to those who wait, get impatient, curse, wait some more, curse, and compulsively search the internet every morning.
My journey into the Tarzan newspaper strips continues with this volume. This volume features trips to Pal-Ul-Don and Pellucidar as well as parts of Africa Tarzan and the gang haven't visited before. Korak helps some hippies and gets into other trouble.
As with the last volume, these are nonstop adventure tales with fighting, lost cities, dinosaurs, and more villains than you can shake a spear at. The stories play fast and loose with African geography and real world science but no one reads Tarzan looking for a historically accurate tale, I hope.
As always, Russ Manning's art is the feature attraction. The man is great at quiet scenes as well as fights with dinosaurs, beast men, lovely ladies, lost cities, and animals galore. Even the jungle foliage is well done. This volume contains the last of the dailies, which were put aside so Russ Manning could do a series of Tarzan graphic albums, which only two were ever completed. The intro also mentions that due to inflation and the workload, the strip eventually became unprofitable for Manning to due, partly because he had to hire assistants to keep up out of his own pocket.
The Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips continue to amaze. Four out of five stars.
So volumes 1, 2, and 4 of this series can easily be had for below cover price but gouger dickheads have been charging upwards of $150 for volume three here. Fortunately, I scored this from a Half Price Books in Washington for a cool $29.99. Good things come to those who wait, get impatient, curse, wait some more, curse, and compulsively search the internet every morning.
My journey into the Tarzan newspaper strips continues with this volume. This volume features trips to Pal-Ul-Don and Pellucidar as well as parts of Africa Tarzan and the gang haven't visited before. Korak helps some hippies and gets into other trouble.
As with the last volume, these are nonstop adventure tales with fighting, lost cities, dinosaurs, and more villains than you can shake a spear at. The stories play fast and loose with African geography and real world science but no one reads Tarzan looking for a historically accurate tale, I hope.
As always, Russ Manning's art is the feature attraction. The man is great at quiet scenes as well as fights with dinosaurs, beast men, lovely ladies, lost cities, and animals galore. Even the jungle foliage is well done. This volume contains the last of the dailies, which were put aside so Russ Manning could do a series of Tarzan graphic albums, which only two were ever completed. The intro also mentions that due to inflation and the workload, the strip eventually became unprofitable for Manning to due, partly because he had to hire assistants to keep up out of his own pocket.
The Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips continue to amaze. Four out of five stars.
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