I just read "Tarzan of the Apes"

[ragboy]

Speaking of Tarzan, was I the only kid who used to watch his cartoon religiously in the late 70s? I loved that show. I wonder if I can find some DVD copies of it kicking around anywhere? Along with Flash Gordon and Thundarr the Barbarian...

Nope. I was right there with you. My wife still has a crush on the cartoon Tarzan... How about the live action version from the late 60's early 70's? With the little kid and Cheetah? Many a too-hot Saturday afternoon were spent under the window unit watching that show.

I started reading Tarzan books when I was 15 or so (my first D&D character was named Korack--Tarzan's son). They were always sitting around the house because my Dad was a big ERB fan. I've read the first four or five books many many times. Never gets old.

What was the one where Tarzan had to save the movie crew who was in the jungle filming a Tarzan movie? That book was fantastic and I highly recommend it (it's later in the series).

And I for one love the 'weird' ones as much as the 'normal' ones.

Faves: <tie> Son of Tarzan and Jungle Tales of Tarzan

I agree about the Neal Adams painted cover... I used to stare at those covers for hours. Such odd little details.

 

[Desdichado]

ragboy, U R AWESOME!!11!

If I ever move back to Austin or San Antone (my wife's always bugging me to check out the job market there; she's not a fan of Detroit. Neither am I, really, for that matter) I'll definately look you up for recommendations on where to start finding a local game.

 

[ragboy]

ragboy, U R AWESOME!!11!

If I ever move back to Austin or San Antone (my wife's always bugging me to check out the job market there; she's not a fan of Detroit. Neither am I, really, for that matter) I'll definately look you up for recommendations on where to start finding a local game.

Ah... well thanks! You're welcome down here anytime. Unfortunately, my main game contacts are with my live-in gamers (my kids). But, IIRC, you have four kids as well, so we can get a massively multi-kid RPG going...

 

[Warrior Poet]

Speaking of Tarzan, was I the only kid who used to watch his cartoon religiously in the late 70s? I loved that show. I wonder if I can find some DVD copies of it kicking around anywhere? Along with Flash Gordon and Thundarr the Barbarian...

Definitely not the only one. That cartoon rocked! Not as truly faithful to ERB as the books, of course, 'cause it was for kids, but still, a great show. The Flash Gordon cartoon was also good. Of course, I was but a wee lad, and I recall they recylced a lot of animation, but still, it was great!

Warrior Poet

 

[Desdichado]

Definitely not the only one. That cartoon rocked! Not as truly faithful to ERB as the books, of course, 'cause it was for kids, but still, a great show. The Flash Gordon cartoon was also good. Of course, I was but a wee lad, and I recall they recylced a lot of animation, but still, it was great!

And yet more faithful than any other screen repsentation of Tarzan, big or small, if I remember correctly, even so. I never would have been drawn to the Tarzan books a few years later (when I was 11 or 12) if it hadn't been for that cartoon. And even then, I probably wouldn't have eventually preferred the John Carter "planetary romance" books to Tarzan if it wasn't for Filmation's Flash Gordon paving the way for me there, too.

Those two, along with Thundarr the Barbarian, are probably the Saturday morning cartoons that were most influential on me as a kid. I'd jump at the chance to pick up DVD's of any of those. (Speaking of which, you can get complete runs of Thundarr on eBay for not much money. Just put a bid down, as a matter of fact!)

 

[Warrior Poet]

And yet more faithful than any other screen repsentation of Tarzan, big or small, if I remember correctly, even so. I never would have been drawn to the Tarzan books a few years later (when I was 11 or 12) if it hadn't been for that cartoon. And even then, I probably wouldn't have eventually preferred the John Carter "planetary romance" books to Tarzan if it wasn't for Filmation's Flash Gordon paving the way for me there, too.

Those two, along with Thundarr the Barbarian, are probably the Saturday morning cartoons that were most influential on me as a kid. I'd jump at the chance to pick up DVD's of any of those. (Speaking of which, you can get complete runs of Thundarr on eBay for not much money. Just put a bid down, as a matter of fact!)

Nice! Yeah, I feel the same way. The Tarzan cartoon definitely had a flavor to it that was certainly more faithful to Burroughs than the live-action Hollywood varieties.

Those cartoons were definitely early influences for me (along with Tolkien, which is a wonderful odd-coupling), as well, and led me to Burroughs, Howard, Frazetta, Leiber, Lovecraft, and Moorcock (and when I found Fire and Ice, that was the cherry on the sundae!). I love all that savage-world-strange-landscape-weird-beasts-eldritch-and-obscure-
magic-two-fisted-sword-and-sorcery-with-beautiful-zaftig-
heroines-and-wild-adventure with some good-old-fashioned-
horrific-tear-back-the-curtain-on-reality's-darkness-and-
reveal-the-squamous-horror-beneath-stuff thrown in for good measure.

Good memories . . . good memories . . . .

Warrior Poet

Edit: there's just no good way to format that compound descriptor so it looks good on screen, is there?

 

[Desdichado]

there's just no good way to format that compound descriptor so it looks good on screen, is there?

Sorry, no there's not.

 

[jester47]

REH's stories are an interesting study when you look at his life and when the stories were written and their content. His style changes after meeting Novelyn Price in that some of his women become more empowered. Also, the racism drops off a little. This is noticable if you read them in the order written. Also, the stories for the time were very ahead of their times in some social commentary.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Yeah, the Project Gutenburg link is great.

Another good link that I have to push since it's got offices just down the hall from me is the UVA library's EText center. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ They have 17 ERB works availbale there, including a few illustraded editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengB.browse.html (scroll down almost to the bottom of the page)

 

[Desdichado]

Great link, Rich! Thanks! Now I can also read <i>The Moon Maid</i> which for some reason has not been transcribed to Project Gutenberg yet.