Tarzan of the Apes in Comics
Henry G Franke III interviews Roy Thomas and William Stout on their work with Tarzan. He started with some history of the character, how recognizable he is, how many stories he has vs other characters, and then many publishers that published Tarzan in comic form. He also spoke about the original oversea stories and those being produced online right now. They talked about what made Tarzan popular, and why Marvel went after the Tarzan license, Roy revealed why he stopped writing the comics, Stout explained how he got involved with Tarzan and assisted and learning from Russ Manning, and they spoke about the Dell comics series it’s artist Jesse Marsh and the Johnny Weissmuller movie version of Tarzan’s influence on it, Roy spoke about meeting Weissmuller and spending an evening with him, which artists they wished has drawn Tarzan, how they get young readers interested in the character and the online still ongoing comic strip.
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