Tarzan Part I

For a little more than a year from late 1973 to early 1975 DC Comics published 100 page comics as part of the regular series of a number of comics. The first story was usually an original with the rest of the comic filled with an eclectic mix of reprints. In this era before reprint collections many of the characters were seen for the first time by readers of my generation.

Here are a couple of examples from Tarzan. The first story in each issue is an original by the great Joe Kubert. The Tarzan reprints are daily and Sunday strips created by the also great Russ Manning.

Some of the reprinted stories are 40 and more pages. Dialog has often been changed and panels dropped but the reprints are still beautiful. Fun 1950 characters such as Rex the Wonder Dog and Detective Chimp round out the issues.

Tarzan 233 (Oct-Nov 1974) has "The Land that Time Forgot!" from the Sunday strip for Dec 1971 to April 1972. "Thunder Lizard!" in Tarzan 234 (Dec/74-Jan/75) is a reformatted and coloured collection of the Jan-April 1969 daily strip.