From the very beginning, Foster was praised for his anatomy, panel composition, draftsmanship, and just about every other aspect of his work. The artist was Hal Foster, who later became famous as the creator of Prince Valiant. The storyline was a close adaptation of his first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, in which the baby Tarzan is orphaned in the jungle, raised by apes, and grows up to woo the lovely Jane Porter. His first appearance in cartoon form was as a newspaper comic, on Monday, Januthe same day as that of Buck Rogers, a double debut that some consider to have marked the beginning of a golden age of adventure comics in the papers. It took considerably longer before he entered the toon world, but once he did, he was all over it. Within four years - the blink ofĪn eye back then - he was in the movies. But it was his intention, soon as he realized what a strong property he had, to exploit it in as many ways as possible. Maybe that's because there were fewer media than there are now. When Edgar Rice Burroughs created Tarzan of the Apes in 1912, it was relatively unusual for a popular character to become a multimedia hit. Please contribute to its necessary financial support. If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, TARZAN OF THE APES Original Medium: Prose fiction
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