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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2644957" data-attributes="member: 2205">Wow, I'm surprised Conan is winning this so easily; I can only imagine that most voters are unfamiliar with the Tarzan books!Tarzan was just as fast, strong and--if anything--more brutal than Conan.  He was more intelligent, too.  He killed dozens of manapes, lions, leopards, snakes, crocodiles, and even frikkin' dinosaurs with either his bare hands, or just a hunting knife.  He single-handedly kicked the butts of Kaiser Wilhem's entire African army (Tarzan Untamed) and that of Stalin as well (Tarzan Triumphant).  He was cursed? by an African witch-doctor with immortality.  Not saying that he should win (although I voted for him), just that at the very least, the results should be close!Of course, I was the one who had the Tarzan books, and I read them before I read Conan.  Plus I've been an ERB fanboy since I was about 11 years old.  Still, when I first read one Conan story ("Red Nails" I think?) and it mentioned that Conan had killed a charging bull with his bare-hands when he was younger, that was the first time I even got the impression that Conan could even play in the same playground as Tarzan.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>