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Issue Details

Issue #207
Published April 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Kubert

Cover Details

Characters Tarzan
Genre jungle
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan The Joe Kubert Years (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #1 (October 2005)

26 page Tarzan story "Origin of the Ape-Man (Book 1)"

Characters Tarzan (origin); Klaxton; John Clayton, Sr. (death); Alice Clayton (death); Black Michael; Kerchak; Kala; Sabor; Bolgani
Synopsis Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers and their son, Tarzan, is raised by the great apes.
Genre jungle
Script Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel); Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters Joe Kubert
Notes Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel, TARZAN OF THE APES. The C-22 reprint details: Reprints these pages: top 2/3 of page 5 with a title and credits in place of the top 1/3, and pages 6-25.
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-22 [edited, see notes]; in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan the Joe Kubert Years (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #1 (October 2005)

3 page Tarzan story "Tarzan's First Christmas"

Genre jungle
Script Hal Foster
Pencils Hal Foster
Inks Hal Foster
Reprinted from United Features' Tarzan comic strip, 27 December 27 1931

8 page John Carter story "Arrival (Ch. 1)"

Characters O: John Carter
Genre science fiction
Script Marv Wolfman (plot); Joe Kubert (script, uncredited)
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel, A PRINCESS OF MARS; writing credit supplied by Fredrik Ekman (February 23, 2004) from Marv Wolfman; this story's printed credits are incomplete.
Reprinted in The Tarzan Family (DC, 1975 series) #65 (September-October 1976) [first 5 pages]; in The Tarzan Family (DC, 1975 series) #66 (November-December 1976) [last 3 pages]

1 page illustration "John Carter"

Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow
Reprinted in The Tarzan Family (DC, 1975 series) #66 (November-December 1976)