August 3, 2025 and one hundred and three years ago on this day in 1942, the Rex Maxon illustrated and Don Garden scripted Tarzan daily comic story arc, “War in the Jungle,” began. It ran for 138 daily episodes and ended on January 9, 1943. The story appeared during World War Two and featured Tarzan, D’Arnot, Nazis, and Zeela, the jungle girl, who only appeared in the daily comic strips.
The entire story arc is available, in block and white as originally published at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag54/5401.html
The drabble for today, “The Best Defense is a Good Offense,” was inspired by “War in the Jungle.”
Tarzan found D’Arnot leading a band of the resistance through the jungle. “What are you doing my friend,” he asked?
D’Arnot replied, “We’re going to hide and wait for the Nazis to attack and then we’ll kill them. Where should we hide?”
“Where will the Nazis attack?”
“We don’t know.”
“Then it doesn’t matter where you hide.”
“What should we do?”
“Find them now, don’t wait for them to attack. A rogue lion can attack anywhere and I can’t guard everywhere. Better to beard the lion or the Nazi in his den than to try to protect the whole jungle.”
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