Bücher von Edgar Rice Burroughs

At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs's Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again -- and collapsed. When he came to, he found himself back on earth, and separated from his beloved Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium. It's a decade later when Carter returns to Barsoom, and he finds himself in that part of the planet that the natives consider to be "heaven" -- which is no heaven at all. Carter has to reunite with his friend the fierce green warrior Tars Tarkas, fight with plant men and the great white apes of Barsoom, violate some significant religious taboos, survive the affections of an evil goddess, foment a slave revolt, fight in an arena, and still save Dejah Thoris in the middle of a giant air battle between the red, green, black and white people of Barsoom. . . . High adventure, Martian style.

At the start of this volume, Tarzan knows his inheritance as an English lord, but is determined to hide that since he truly believes that his cousin, William Cecil Clayton, would make a better lord and husband for his beloved Jane. He gets involved with a married Russian countess (there's a plan! -- oh, sure) who has issues with her criminal brother (Nicholas Rokoff -- a real villain, naturally, who becomes a regular in the series) and her older husband. As a consequence of his interaction with brother, Tarzan is lured into a room where he is attacked by a dozen Paris muggers. The scene that details this mugging is one of the great chapters in the literature of muggings. Tarzan fondly recalls his childhood and his foster ape mother with a friend, D'Arnot: "To you my friend, she would have appeared a hideous and ugly creature, but to me she was beautiful -- so gloriously does love transfigure its object."

A ship's mutiny forces a young noble English couple out onto the African coast, and their child is born in the wild. When they die a short time later, the boy is adopted by an ape, and raised as her own. The boy, Tarzan, rises to dominance in the jungle . . . TARZAN OF THE APES is Edgar Rice Burroughs's exploration of mankind a it's seen from the perspective of a man reared outside civilization, and the insights he offers are often not flattering. Tarzan has all the features we look for in a hero -- he is handsome, brave, and stronger than any ordinary man. But he is an arrogant loner, prone to violence. TARZAN OF THE APES explores that which is within all of us, the primal drives and abilities that made for our survival -- Burroughs created a hero who, because of his immense potential and truly unique upbringing -- became a believable SUPERMAN. Burroughs told the tale in engaging prose which still sweeps us along.

In the previous volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume, Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped -- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins, Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men"), a hidden valley in Zaire, where he finds a land dinosaurs and men even stranger -- humanoids with tails. Ta-den is a hairless, white-skinned, Ho-don warrior; O-mat is a hairy, black skinned, Waz-don, chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world Tarzan becomes a captive -- but he impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible"). Meanwhile, a second visitor has come to Pal-ul-don -- wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along and a long knife. Pal-ul-don is where Jane is being held captive, of course. . . .

A unit of German soldiers stumble on the estate of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, in British East Africa in the fall of 1914. Tarzan and his son, Korak, are away, and Jane -- Lady Jane -- does not know that war has broken out between German and the British Empire. She welcomes them to her home. Meanwhile, Tarzan learns of the war in Nairobi and hurries home only to find the smoking ruins of his estate. Wasimbu, the son of Muviro, has been nailed to the wall, and the rest of the natives are all dead. Tarzan also finds the charred body of his wife, recognizable only by the rings on her fingers. Cursing the Germans, Tarzan swears vengeance and head into the wild, seeking revenge. During a tremendous thunderstorm, Tarzan kills a leopard -- and the Lord of the Jungle has returned . . . This is not your typical Burroughs yarn, where the hero pursues his beloved across a dangerous environment -- not at all.

As THE BEASTS OF TARZAN begins, Tarzan -- as Lord Greystoke -- is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and henchman Alexis Paulvitch, are on his trail. The pair abducts Jane -- and Tarzan's son, Jack. Tarzan himself is stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. There he meets Mugambi, the giant chief of the Wagambi tribe, who becomes Tarzan's lifelong friend and ally. The group heads into the deep jungle after the kidnappers -- and when Tarzan finds them he lets the beast inside him wreck his vengeance. There's a beautiful irony, here -- Tarzan has come from the jungle into civilization, and his son must go from civilization to the jungle.

When Abner Perry invents a vehicle that essentially drills through the earth, he takes it to his good friend (and independently wealthy man about town) David Ennis. And what else can they do? Drill down into the earth, of course. What they find there isn't what we'd expect: it's an inner world called Pellicidar, a place where the sun neither sets nor rises -- because what appears to be the sun is no sun at all, but the molten core of the earth. Pellucidar is a great fun fantasy world, full of dragons, apes, and reptiles and Weird Things. It's ruled by sorcerous royalty (the princess falls in love with Our Hero, of course) and of course our heros end up hip-deep in dragons. . . .

. . . . between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. In JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN, Burroughs gives us an Ape-Man who might have fit in a television sitcom or a domestic drama. We see a Tarzan whose character is barely hinted at in the events of Tarzan on the Apes -- this is a collection of stories that take place in the same years as that first novel, but show us a very different aspect of Tarzan. We see "Tarzan's First Love," a tale of a teenage Tarzan with a distracting crush on a big-but-beautiful female gorilla called Teeka. The Ape-Man (well, boy, actually) declares his love for her and battles a childhood friend for her favor. But in the end he comes to understand that some things are Just Not Meant To Be, and forsakes his childhood heart-throb . . . In "The God of Tarzan," the Ape-Man asks himself the meaning of life -- and attempts to track down God in the same way that he would follow the spoor of a wounded deer. In "Tarzan Rescues the Moon," Tarzan sees a lunar eclipse and in his efforts to rescue the moon, shoots arrows into the moon until the moon re-emerges from the eclipse. In the end, it's Tarzan's struggle to find real meanings in the world around him that distinguish him from the apes who are his adoptive kin -- and make him as fascinating today as he was a hundred years ago.

Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves -- but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following greedy pair -- one Belgian, one Arab -- into the jungle, where they stumble into the lost city. Bad enough -- and then Tarzan injures his head in a fight and loses his memory. That's great news for La, the high priestess for the Flaming God, who's had a serious crush on the apeman since their first encounter. But the priests who work for her have other ideas: they don't intend to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives a second time.

The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americans managed to retain their civilization -- but only by engaging by the most extreme form or isolationism imaginable for two centuries, now, no American has ventured east of the thirtieth parallel. "East for the East . . ." the slogan went, "The West for the West!" Until a terrible storm at sea forced American lieutenant Jefferson Turck to disobey the law, seeking safe harbor in England -- where he found that two centuries of isolation have desolated the land. The damaged ship found a Europe that is no longer an enemy -- a ruined land that is utterly unable to be an enemy -- or a friend.Heavily influenced by the events of World War I, the story reflects U.S. sentiments at the time of writing.

Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

David Innes and his captive, a member of the reptilian Mahar master race of the interior world of Pellucidar, return from the surface world in the Iron Mole invented by his friend and companion in adventure Abner Perry. Emerging in Pellucidar at an unknown location, David frees his captive. He names the place Greenwich and uses the technology he has brought to begin the systematic exploration and mapping of the unknown land while searching for his lost companions, Abner, Ghak and Dian the Beautiful.

Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts stechen Lord John Greystoke und seine hochschwangere Ehefrau Alice von England aus in See und stranden nach einer Meuterei an der Küste Afrikas. In einer notdürftig gebauten Hütte kommt ihr Sohn John zur Welt. Schon ein Jahr später verliert der Säugling seine Mutter, und sein Vater fällt einer Affenbande zum Opfer. Ebenjene Affen nehmen die Waise jedoch in ihre Familie auf. Von nun an ist sein Name Tarzan. Tarzan hat das dekadente Leben eines britischen Aristokraten niemals kennengelernt, und doch wird er ihm nicht auf immer entfliehen können... Christophe Bec (»Olympus Mons«, »Cixin Liu: Die Wandernde Erde«) und Stevan Subic (»M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y«) legen eine originalgetreue Adaption des Pulp-Klassikers von Edgar Rice Burroughs vor, die so brutal, düster und kompromisslos ist wie der Dschungel selbst.

Comic-Abenteuer von Tarzan.Am 15. März 1931 erschien in einigen amerikanischen Zeitungen die erste farbige Comicseite von Tarzan. Diese und die folgenden 27 Seiten zeichnete Rex Maxon. Ab dem 27. September 1931 übernahm der später durch Prinz Eisenherz weltberühmt gewordene Hal Foster die Serie. Er brachte 293 Seiten in den folgenden Jahren für diese Serie zu Papier. Mitte 1937 wurde der für seinen dynamischen Zeichenstil legendäre Burne Hogarth sein Nachfolger. Abgesehen von einer längeren Pause - Mitte der 1940er Jahre, in der Ruben Moreira zeichnete - führte Hogarth die Abenteuergeschichten bis 1950 fort.In zehn Bänden veröffentlicht Bocola erstmals diese restaurierten Tarzan-Comics in den Originalfarben. In 10 großformatigen Hardcovern (26,3 x 35,4 cm) kommen die detailreichen Zeichnungen gut zur Geltung. Band 1-9 mit ca. 112 Seiten kostet EUR 29,90 und enthält zwei Jahrgänge. Der Abschlussband, Band 10, enthält 176 Seiten, inklusive aller Dailies aus der "Hogarth-Phase" (1950) und kostet EUR 34,90.

Russ Manning war ein begabter Geschichtenerzähler mit einem überragenden Zeichentalent, der seine Tarzan-Abenteuer sowohl im modernen Afrika als auch im vorzeitlichen, von Sauriern bevölkerten Pal-ul-don ansiedelte. Er sollte die Gestalt des Tarzan wieder so eng wie möglich an Burroughs' Originalvision anlehnen. Mit Unterstützung von Bill Stout, Mike Royer und Dave Stevens schuf Manning insgesamt 22 Geschichten für die Sonntagsbeilagen und 9 Abenteuer für die Tageszeitungen. Das siebte Buch der achtbändigen Reihe, die alle Tarzan-Zeitungsstrips von Manning umfasst, enthält die Sundays von März 1974 bis Oktober 1976, als Nachdrucke der im Besitz des Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-Archivs befindlichen Proofs.

Comic-Abenteuer von Tarzan. Am 15. März 1931 erschien in einigen amerikanischen Zeitungen die erste farbige Comicseite von Tarzan. Diese und die folgenden 27 Seiten zeichnete Rex Maxon. Ab dem 27. September 1931 übernahm der später durch Prinz Eisenherz weltberühmt gewordene Hal Foster die Serie. Er brachte 293 Seiten in den folgenden Jahren für diese Serie zu Papier. Mitte 1937 wurde der für seinen dynamischen Zeichenstil legendäre Burne Hogarth sein Nachfolger. Abgesehen von einer längeren Pause - Mitte der 1940er Jahre, in der Ruben Moreira zeichnete - führte Hogarth die Abenteuergeschichten bis 1950 fort.In zehn Bänden veröffentlicht Bocola erstmals die restaurierten Tarzan Sonntagsseiten in den Originalfarben. In dem großen Hardcoverformat (26,3 x 35,4 cm) kommen die detailreichen Zeichnungen besonders gut zur Geltung. Jedes Buch enthält etwa zwei Jahrgänge aus dem Zeitraum 1931 bis 1950. Der Abschlussband, Band 10, enthält zusätzlich alle Dailies aus der "Hogarth-Phase" (1950).

Comic-Abenteuer von Tarzan. Am 15. März 1931 erschien in einigen amerikanischen Zeitungen die erste farbige Comicseite von Tarzan. Diese und die folgenden 27 Seiten zeichnete Rex Maxon. Ab dem 27. September 1931 übernahm der später durch Prinz Eisenherz weltberühmt gewordene Hal Foster die Serie. Er brachte 293 Seiten in den folgenden Jahren für diese Serie zu Papier. Mitte 1937 wurde der für seinen dynamischen Zeichenstil legendäre Burne Hogarth sein Nachfolger. Abgesehen von einer längeren Pause - Mitte der 1940er Jahre, in der Ruben Moreira zeichnete - führte Hogarth die Abenteuergeschichten bis 1950 fort.In zehn Bänden veröffentlicht Bocola erstmals die restaurierten Tarzan Sonntagsseiten in den Originalfarben. In dem großen Hardcoverformat (26,3 x 35,4 cm) kommen die detailreichen Zeichnungen besonders gut zur Geltung. Jedes Buch enthält etwa zwei Jahrgänge aus dem Zeitraum 1931 bis 1950. Der Abschlussband, Band 10, enthält zusätzlich alle Dailies aus der "Hogarth-Phase" (1950).

Comic-Abenteuer von Tarzan. Am 15. März 1931 erschien in einigen amerikanischen Zeitungen die erste farbige Comicseite von Tarzan. Diese und die folgenden 27 Seiten zeichnete Rex Maxon. Ab dem 27. September 1931 übernahm der später durch Prinz Eisenherz weltberühmt gewordene Hal Foster die Serie. Er brachte 293 Seiten in den folgenden Jahren für diese Serie zu Papier. Mitte 1937 wurde der für seinen dynamischen Zeichenstil legendäre Burne Hogarth sein Nachfolger. Abgesehen von einer längeren Pause - Mitte der 1940er Jahre, in der Ruben Moreira zeichnete - führte Hogarth die Abenteuergeschichten bis 1950 fort.In zehn Bänden veröffentlicht Bocola erstmals die restaurierten Tarzan Sonntagsseiten in den Originalfarben. In dem großen Hardcoverformat (26,3 x 35,4 cm) kommen die detailreichen Zeichnungen besonders gut zur Geltung. Jedes Buch enthält etwa zwei Jahrgänge aus dem Zeitraum 1931 bis 1950. Der Abschlussband, Band 10, enthält zusätzlich alle Dailies aus der "Hogarth-Phase" (1950).

Comic-Abenteuer von Tarzan. Am 15. März 1931 erschien in einigen amerikanischen Zeitungen die erste farbige Comicseite von Tarzan. Diese und die folgenden 27 Seiten zeichnete Rex Maxon. Ab dem 27. September 1931 übernahm der später durch Prinz Eisenherz weltberühmt gewordene Hal Foster die Serie. Er brachte 293 Seiten in den folgenden Jahren für diese Serie zu Papier. Mitte 1937 wurde der für seinen dynamischen Zeichenstil legendäre Burne Hogarth sein Nachfolger. Abgesehen von einer längeren Pause - Mitte der 1940er Jahre, in der Ruben Moreira zeichnete - führte Hogarth die Abenteuergeschichten bis 1950 fort.In zehn Bänden veröffentlicht Bocola erstmals die restaurierten Tarzan Sonntagsseiten in den Originalfarben. In dem großen Hardcoverformat (26,3 x 35,4 cm) kommen die detailreichen Zeichnungen besonders gut zur Geltung. Jedes Buch enthält etwa zwei Jahrgänge aus dem Zeitraum 1931 bis 1950. Band 1 enthält zum Einstieg, neben einem umfangreichen Vorwort, auch die allererste Tarzan-Geschichte von Hal Foster aus dem Jahre 1928. Der Abschlussband, Band 10, enthält zusätzlich alle Dailies aus der "Hogarth-Phase" (1950).

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