Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for February 21, 2024

Summon Great Apes to help vanquish “devil dogs”.

Eh what happen to all em guns they was steals?

Hassan wants Tarzan to throw him in Trig’s face again. I guess it’s better than having Trig thrown in his face.

Time for a Tantor charge. And I agree with the other commenters. What happened to all the weapons?

Tarzan (sigh): “I guess I should have told them to shoot, not to use the guns as clubs. Next time I’ll keep that in mind.”

Fight with what you have, not with what you want. Almost a song lyric there.

1949, out in the Jungle, the rifles were probably of low quality. A bayonet charge would be effective.

Little did Tarzan know that while he was confronting Trig and Hassan, the natives sold all of the rifles they had taken back to the slavers for colorful trinkets.

In spite of trademarking and marketing by a NY ad agency “Sheeta fights with the teeth that he has” never caught on with the public as a dentures sales slogan.

He wants them to be full of Sheeta…

“Tarzan, we’re getting the Sheeta kicked out of us!”

“Then use Numa’s teeth!”

“But… you said…”

“Never mind what I told you, you do what I tell you!”

Please please let this storyline move faster than the Khorians/Merala episode, I can’t take six more months of this!!

And claws, don’t forget your claws.

“And that’s no sheeta, Tarzan”, panted Murivo!

In a hand-to-hand fight, a rifle is just a club.

“But Sheeta has big teeth, Bwana,” replied Muviro. “We only have puny little hominid teeth! That’s why we invented rifles in the first place! We need more rifles, you big ape!” And thus ended the legendary friendship of Muviro and the Ape-man, because Tarzan was just a bit sensitive about his adoptive parent.