ERB revival?

[CarlZog]

I've seen numerous mentions of Edgar Rice Burroughs on the forums recently. Is his work in a revival?

I plowed through all the ERB I could get my hands on as a kid in the '70s -- Tarzan, John Carter, Carson of Venus, and numerous other individual titles. I seemed to be in a dwindling minority then, and with many of his books long out of print, I certainly didn't figure much of anyone was still reading him now.

Is this changing, or has he always maintained more fans than I suspected? If he is seeing renewed popularity, what's driving it?

Carl

 

[mmadsen]

I've seen numerous mentions of Edgar Rice Burroughs on the forums recently. Is his work in a revival?

I'm not sure. I finally got around to reading the first Tarzan novel and the first few John Carter of Mars stories six or seven years ago. I found them on-line; I don't think they were in print.

Is this changing, or has he always maintained more fans than I suspected? If he is seeing renewed popularity, what's driving it?

I'm wondering if the recent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie has drawn attention to the original graphic novel and the late-18th-to-early-19th-century adventure fiction it drew on: Verne, Wells, Haggard, Doyle, etc.

While Tarzan doesn't appear in League, his work is certainly in the same vein.

 

[Desdichado]

Has it ever been obscure? I know for a fact that all the books in the Tarzan and John Carter of Mars series have not been out of print for several decades -- since I was a kid anyways. I've always seen them on shelves in bookstores. Slightly more esoteric stuff, like Pellucidar, Carson whatshisname of Venus, or his more standalone books like the Mad King or the Mucker, on the other hand, I always had to find at the library. But that was OK, because they usually had the old Frank Frazetta covers on them.