Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 hr 19 min read

The immortal origin of Tarzan of the Apes, the orphaned English child raised by great apes, told in three hundred pictures, the first comic-strip adaptation of the classic novel.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1929 book adapts Tarzan of the Apes into pioneering comic-strip form. Historic, vivid, thrilling. Read it for a landmark of comics history, the very first illustrated Tarzan, retelling the legendary tale of the ape-man's origin in bold sequential art, a milestone in bringing Burroughs's beloved jungle hero to the picture-strip page.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Harold R. Foster