June 10, 2025 and ten years ago on this day in 2015, the graphic novel adaption of “Jungle Tales of Tarzan” became available in comic shops and book stores across the United States. The official release date of this beautiful book by author Martin Powell and creative director, Diana Leto, was June 16th.
The graphic novel was authorized by ERB, Inc. through Sequential Pulp’s distribution arrangement with Dark Horse Comics. The book collected the twelve loosely connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs chronicling the life of his most famous character, Tarzan of the Apes. All the events of the original work happened within chapter eleven of Tarzan of the Apes between Tarzan’s avenging of his ape foster mother’s death and his becoming the leader of his ape tribe. The original stories ran in Blue Book magazine from September 1916 through August 1917 prior to the book’s publication in 1919.
Publishing history and several illustrations for Jungle Tales of Tarzan - https://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0492.html
There was a signed and limited edition, signed by Jim Sullos, Cathy Willbanks, Linda Burroughs, Llana Jane Burroughs, and Dejah Burroughs. There’s one other signature that I can’t make out.
My copy was also signed to me by writer, Robin Maxwell, who wrote a short introduction. The 100-word drabble for today, “In The Jungle, the Mighty Jungle,” is excerpted and adapted from that introduction. Hope the adaption is okay, Robin, I only have 100 words.
“Tarzan may be the most recognizable figure in the history of literature. He’s also the most misunderstood. Unless we’ve read the original books, we know next to nothing.
“The Tarzan you’ll meet in this graphic novel based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Jungle Tales of Tarzan” a collection of twelve linked short stories, is living among the Mangani as a feral man-child of almost twenty. It is Tarzan before Jane. Tarzan before the moment of consciousness that he is human and not Mangani. Tarzan, through his adventures, creating the legend that precedes the coming of the white man into his jungle.”
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