Boy do I miss June! Maybe they would all calm down if they had some breakfast. Hate to tell you all but I peeked and this type of Tarzan comic is going to continue for a year or more before we can get back to what we knew and loved. But, better than no Tarzan.
“Tarzan and the Ugambis” continues on the John Celardo pages of the ERB Magazine site as well as many other tales drawn by Celardo. Adios Bwanas, it’s been fun!
I don’t know why GoComics would abandon an ongoing Celardo storyline — though, to be fair, what they abandoned is really transition to a new storyline that hadn’t yet gotten under way.
And I don’t know why they would join “in progress” a Manning storyline that had begun weeks earlier, rather than picking a Manning story they have the right to run in its entirety.
But I’m guessing they decided to switch from Celardo to Manning because, as far as I can tell, Manning is MUCH more popular — and much more popular worldwide — than Celardo. (Try finding collections of their respective works on Amazon or AbeBooks.) To twist Old Comic Strip Lovers words, for an awful lot of people, it’s Manning’s Tarzan that we have known and loved for fifty years, and Celardo’s that we’ve sometimes had to tolerate as better than no Tarzan at all.
The Tarzan comic strip artists who have been known to sell books are, for the most part, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, and Russ Manning. Others also did good work, and I don’t disdain anyone who prefers any or all of them. But I can understand why GoComics might think that, of the material they have available, Manning’s Tarzan offers the best chance for the apeman to thrive on their platform.
I don’t understand. Beasts of Tarzan—which is something adapted from the books I remember. And that worked. I liked it. But then this jump to the midst of this, in media res, what the heck…how’d we get to this particular story? Where’s the lead-in?
From what I can gather, GoComics has the rights to all the Tarzan strips that ran in newspaper syndication from January 1, 1996 onwards, and for some reason they have reverted to the beginning of their library. But the Tarzan dailies had already been in reruns since Russ Manning stopped doing them in 1972, and it happened that on January 1, 1996 what newspapers were running were reprints of this already-ongoing Manning story from 1971. (Tarzan Sundays were still new material at that point, but they too went to reprints when Eric Battle stopped doing them in 2002, and since then GoComics Sundays have also been recycled.)
The strip is no longer syndicated to newspapers, so GoComics is the only place to get it in daily installments. But for information on how to get back to the Van Buren / Celardo storyline from last week, or to catch up with the beginning of the Russ Manning storyline that’s running now, see the comments above.
ehenwood almost 3 years ago
Back to the 70s…
DaveG1960 almost 3 years ago
Excellent artwork……
Gent almost 3 years ago
Man. At least they could’ve continued whatever was going on.
tripwire45 almost 3 years ago
Wait! What happened? Why are we suddenly in the middle of another story and decade?
Polsixe almost 3 years ago
Ok..hippies with guns and a telepathic dinosaur. We’ll need to get into the flow here.
SKJAM! Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Odd we couldn’t jump to the start of this Russ Manning plotline.
Trespassers W almost 3 years ago
Wow! That feud between the tribe of Akut and Numa really degenerated fast!
wwsvendsen almost 3 years ago
Transported to Pellucidar … cool. It would be nice to know what’s going on though.
Out of the Past almost 3 years ago
This was back before good looks was a requirement for villains in the comics.
Old Comic Strip Lover almost 3 years ago
Boy do I miss June! Maybe they would all calm down if they had some breakfast. Hate to tell you all but I peeked and this type of Tarzan comic is going to continue for a year or more before we can get back to what we knew and loved. But, better than no Tarzan.
Durak Premium Member almost 3 years ago
If you haven’t finished the end of the Numa the Lion story go back to the archives, 22 March 04 and finish it, it was pretty good.
Jefano Premium Member almost 3 years ago
As I mentioned yesterday, you can pick up this Russ Manning story from the beginning here:
https://www.erbzine.com/mag29/2916.html
And you can continue the abandoned / interrupted Celardo story here (or just follow Durak’s instructions in the comment above):
https://www.erbzine.com/mag38/3839
profkatz almost 3 years ago
“Tarzan and the Ugambis” continues on the John Celardo pages of the ERB Magazine site as well as many other tales drawn by Celardo. Adios Bwanas, it’s been fun!
Jefano Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I don’t know why GoComics would abandon an ongoing Celardo storyline — though, to be fair, what they abandoned is really transition to a new storyline that hadn’t yet gotten under way.
And I don’t know why they would join “in progress” a Manning storyline that had begun weeks earlier, rather than picking a Manning story they have the right to run in its entirety.
But I’m guessing they decided to switch from Celardo to Manning because, as far as I can tell, Manning is MUCH more popular — and much more popular worldwide — than Celardo. (Try finding collections of their respective works on Amazon or AbeBooks.) To twist Old Comic Strip Lovers words, for an awful lot of people, it’s Manning’s Tarzan that we have known and loved for fifty years, and Celardo’s that we’ve sometimes had to tolerate as better than no Tarzan at all.
The Tarzan comic strip artists who have been known to sell books are, for the most part, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, and Russ Manning. Others also did good work, and I don’t disdain anyone who prefers any or all of them. But I can understand why GoComics might think that, of the material they have available, Manning’s Tarzan offers the best chance for the apeman to thrive on their platform.
ScottHolman almost 3 years ago
We still got Tarzan??!!
JohnShirley almost 3 years ago
I don’t understand. Beasts of Tarzan—which is something adapted from the books I remember. And that worked. I liked it. But then this jump to the midst of this, in media res, what the heck…how’d we get to this particular story? Where’s the lead-in?
Jefano Premium Member almost 3 years ago
From what I can gather, GoComics has the rights to all the Tarzan strips that ran in newspaper syndication from January 1, 1996 onwards, and for some reason they have reverted to the beginning of their library. But the Tarzan dailies had already been in reruns since Russ Manning stopped doing them in 1972, and it happened that on January 1, 1996 what newspapers were running were reprints of this already-ongoing Manning story from 1971. (Tarzan Sundays were still new material at that point, but they too went to reprints when Eric Battle stopped doing them in 2002, and since then GoComics Sundays have also been recycled.)
The strip is no longer syndicated to newspapers, so GoComics is the only place to get it in daily installments. But for information on how to get back to the Van Buren / Celardo storyline from last week, or to catch up with the beginning of the Russ Manning storyline that’s running now, see the comments above.
scpandich almost 3 years ago
Hippies: bad. Hippies with guns: worse. Hippies with guns under the spell of a telepathic pterosaur: worst.
JohnShirley almost 3 years ago
Utterly confusing “transition”. Personally I think it was an error. Unintended.