Tarzan in The Land That Time Forgot and The Pool of Time

by Russ Manning

Lya Billings is the greatest female athlete in the world. She competes like a woman possessed, which she is, by the shame of whatever her mother is hiding. When Lya goes in search of her mother's secrets, she is lost at sea, somewhere off the coast of Peru. The only man who can find her -- and the only man who can uncover her mother's secrets -- is Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. And even he may have met his match in The Land That Time Forgot.

Genres: Fiction, Adventure, Comics, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Classics

117 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1996

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Reviews

[Donald Kirch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Burroughs is, and always shall be, a MASTER at the perfect "epic" science fiction story. I do not care if "modern" people disagree, he...ROCKS!!!

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russ Manning provides script and amazing find line work for two Tarzan stories in which our hero and his friend Van Clenard go in search of Lya Billings, Van’s amour, who went solo off the coast of Peru to a hidden place called Caspak.
Caspak is riddled with dinosaurs, ape-like cave men, winged humanoids, and all sorts of ferocious predators. Manning lays out a clear landscape of beuatiful women, savage men, titanic dinosaurs and a landscape both scenic and deadly to our heroes.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK, soviel gleich vorweg: der Plot dieser Story ist nicht wirklich etwas für Edgar Rice Burroughs- oder Tarzan-Puristen.
Auf der Suche nach Lya Billings, die auf einer Insel vor Peru vermisst wird, gerät Tarzan nach Caspak, dem "Land That Time Forgot". 1924 hatte ERB den gleichnamigen Roman geschrieben, der allerdings mit Tarzan überhaupt nichts zu tun hatte. Aber Tarzan, der im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte schon Team Ups mit Predator, Batman und Catwoman oder Carson of Venus überstanden hat, hat hier in gewisser Weise noch ein Heimspiel, weil er in der großen Welt seines Schöpfers bleibt; und außerdem hat der großartige Russ Manning, der die Story geschrieben und gezeichnet hat, bereits in den Dailies der späten 60iger Jahre die seltsamen Vogelmenschen und evolutionären Besonderheiten von Caspak vorweg genommen.
Ob man die eigenwilligen Kapriolen der Evolution auf dieser Insel nun als vollkommen absurd ansieht oder sie einfach als wenn auch abseitige Idee dafür akzeptiert, warum man es auf der Insel mit Sauriern und Stämmen in unterschiedlichen evolutionären Entwicklungsstadien zu tun bekommt, mag Geschmackssache sein. Aber ähnlich wie später auch Mark Schultz in "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" nutzt Russ Manning die Dinosaurier als Möglichkeit, coole und aufregende Bilder und eine exotisch-spannende Handlung zu schaffen.
Hand aufs Herz, was erwartet man bei einem Tazan-Comic? Spannung und Abenteuer. Und wenn Russ Manning Zeichner und Texter ist, eine tolle Artwork dazu. "Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Land That Time Forgot" bietet von alledem reichlich. Eine unterhaltsame und überzeugend gezeichnete Story, die für Tarzan- und Russ Manning-Fans allemal empfehlenswert ist, aber vermutlich auch Seiteneinsteigern Freude machen wird.

[Tim Field · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this Dark Horse collection containing two Tarzan tales scripted and illustrated by Russ Manning. Since these were created for the European comic market rather than the American mainstream, Manning has room to stretch his muscles by including splash pages, two page spreads, scantily clad women, sexual implications and graphic violence.
I like how Manning plays with ERB’s Caspar (The Land That Time Forgot world) and creates an exciting, fast moving pair of tales.
Highly recommended.

[Barry Nadel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Between the age of 12 to 14 I read the entire Tarzan series. After reading the first story, it really doesn't make that much difference in what order you read them. Exciting story for young people.

[Caleb · Rating 3 out of 5]

The two stories collected in this trade are kind of silly, and amount to little more than Burroughs' Tarzan character visiting the setting of another Burroughs book, but it's well worth a look just for the gorgeous Russ Manning work, and to see how he visually realize and verbally explain the zanier aspects of the special way evolution works in Caspak.

[Alvaro_atm92 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hate when people nowadays try to cancel the books just because they had a different vision as we had it today. Reading Tarzan, I could find some terribly racist stuff, but this add value to this book, we can see how was everything seen in that ages. And especially, because after watching the Disney version, you wouldn't expect it :P

[William Prater · Rating 4 out of 5]

Original concept but somewhat predictable. Good read, nevertheless.

[Georgina Brandt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed the movie on TV with Tarzan and others fighting Dinosaurs.