#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - August 1, 2025

 August 1, 2025 and three years ago on this day in 2022, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. published first hardcover edition of Tarzan and the Valley of Gold by Fritz Leiber, The novel, based on the film script by Clair Hufaker for the film, “Tarzan and the Valley of Gold,” was originally published in paperback by Ballantine Books in 1966.

Details about the book and the film: https://www.erbzine.com/mag2/0210.html

The 100-word drabble for today is, “My Book is Better,” and it’s rephrased for length from the article by John F. Roy titled, “Fritz Leiber Says.”

I saw the movie at a private showing when I was half through the novel. I wrote from an earlier script. Some of the most striking incidents in the book were in the script in embryo form, but are not in the move because they were considered too difficult to film, specifically the fight in the carwash. The fight between Tarzan and Train in my novel is much shorter than on film A good karate fight never lasts long and isn’t filled with silly judo chops and the participants don’t survive killing blows. Better and more realistic in my book.