Who Is Tarzan?

This book first examines Tarzan's literary adventures and their connections to ancient myths and later legends. His original conception by author Edgar Rice Burroughs made him adaptable to changes in science and culture of the 21st century and onward. Six great comics artists are then profiled who illustrated the Ape-Man's adventures with dazzling displays of individual styles that complemented fantastic elements from the novels which are missing in the movies. Tarzan's mythological and cultural connections, the origins of newspaper comic-strips, comic books, and Fandom (including the creation of Comic Con International San Diego), provide a background and insights into the extent to which the Fans have not only inserted themselves into the history of Modern Mythology, but are the real catalyst of today's multi-billion dollar comics industry. A broader vision of Tarzan began in comic-books and graphic novels of the early 1990s. A view that presented the Ape-Man as his creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, developed.