Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips Volume 3

Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips #3

by Russ Manning

This third volume of a four-book series collecting the entire run of the Tarzan newspaper strip by Russ Manning presents the final two, complete daily storylines, plus four extended Sunday adventures. In the dailies from August 2, 1971 through July 29, 1972, Tarzan returns to the Earth's core, while Korak plays guide on the dangerous white water river. In the Sundays from January 24, 1971 through March 17, 1974, Tarzan travels to Pal-ul-don and Korak enters the City of Xuja.

Genres: Comics

296 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2014

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Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russ Manning liefert meisterhafte Artwork zu den klassischen Abenteuergeschichten ab - besser geht´s nicht!

[Drew · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I'm honest, the storytelling isn't all that great. However, it's clear that Russ Manning has a great affection for Burroughs' Tarzan novels, and drew much from the established Burroughs-verse. This volume of strips includes a trip to Pellucidar -- which, to be fair, so did one of Burroughs' later Tarzan novels. There is also a very lengthy adventure in Pal-ul-don, the "lost country" of the novel Tarzan the Terrible, which Manning used frequently during his run on the strip. I mean, why not? It's got dinosaurs! Manning's art varies from functional to stylized and visually stunning. In the Sunday color strips, in particular, Manning's technique is often on full display.