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Click for larger imageRiki Comments: I won’t let go til you say “Monkey’s Uncle”.
Published 1967
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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Riki Comments: I won’t let go til you say “Monkey’s Uncle”.
Published 1967
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May 27th, 2019 at 10:29 am
“I wish I knew how to quit you!”
May 27th, 2019 at 10:50 am
Madman goes apeshit. Nipples on Apesuit. Film at 11.
May 27th, 2019 at 2:51 pm
“Are you a registered chiropractor?’
May 27th, 2019 at 3:48 pm
The madman is the one in the ape suit.
May 27th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
Unusual tag spelling of “square”, very futuristic.
May 27th, 2019 at 4:21 pm
@THX (prev.)
“Sqa Ure”? Sounds like Midge Ure experimenting with a new-to-him genre of music, no?
Oh, and by the bye – are you a clone of 1138? 😉
May 27th, 2019 at 4:45 pm
Art Direction: “You idiot! I told you over the phone it’s called ‘Tarzan and the Madam’. At this point it’s just easier to change the title.”
May 27th, 2019 at 5:43 pm
I’m not sure whether this is supposed to be a fight scene or… something else.
May 27th, 2019 at 6:16 pm
The sad part about this cover is that I don’t think the artist was working from a photo of a gorilla — I think he was working from a photo of a gorilla costume. This could be a snapshot of a stagehand helping the famous Ray “Crash” Corrigan remove the head of his gorilla suit.
May 27th, 2019 at 7:23 pm
Followed by Tarzan vs. Dian Fossey. As a former occupational therapist, she could advise that he should give up the Lord of the Jungle role and switch careers to American wrestling.
May 27th, 2019 at 10:13 pm
“Listen, friend, I’m just gonna tell you this once. I am at least 9 times stronger than you. Now back off before I turn you into Stretch Armstrong ©*.”
*Please note, the gorilla did not say “copyright” during this exchange. Neither did he say “asterisk”.
May 27th, 2019 at 11:05 pm
@Hammy: 1139 is an upgrade of 1138, and in no way because I typed my screen name wrong last year.
May 28th, 2019 at 4:59 am
What Naboo the Enigma and Bollo did to get expelled from the Shaman’s Council.
May 28th, 2019 at 5:30 am
“. . . Social grooming is the glue of primate life . . .”
~Dario Maestripieri, Primate Psychology
May 28th, 2019 at 5:41 am
@Tor Mented – yeah, I thought that gorilla is sort of off model myself. Not quite as bad as Jack Kirby’s apes, to be sure. https://66.media.tumblr.com/09cf7c2f2cbea18948caac7b1f136e76/tumblr_pq626s3acb1ueapts_1280.jpg https://66.media.tumblr.com/4cbbf4334470d4e856e54979d58be7f0/tumblr_pq626vugsp1ueapts_1280.jpg
“Tarzan: now in films and on TV, which you’ll probably watch instead of reading this book, you illiterate. Buy our merch!”
May 28th, 2019 at 5:45 am
@Tor M—As is well known, a decent silverback gorilla model commands, like 400-500 bucks an hour. The miserly Board of Trustees at UAI refuses to fund the real thing, so they make a T.A. get in an old gorilla suit and grunt once a week.
May 28th, 2019 at 7:43 am
I think we need the gorilla version of the head of CS Lewis here. Is the madman in a gorilla costume, or does this tale come from the years before Jane when Tarzan, well, you know…
The blurb makes me wonder. Tarzan was in films long before 1967, so why say “now in films and on TV” rather than just noting he’s “now on TV”?
May 28th, 2019 at 10:10 am
@GSS xn: Every bit of publicity helps the brand, I suppose.
The Tarzan film in 1967 was Tarzan and the Great River, where Mike Henry played the apeman and managed to nearly get his face ripped off by Cheeta when he attempted to kiss the chimp. So I call bullshit on this cover.
May 28th, 2019 at 11:02 am
And on/in radio, comic books, the stage, video games, View-Master, colouring books, children’s books, follow-the-dots books, activity books. At least the tagline isn’t actually incorrect because, at least according to Wikipedia, Tarzan surprisingly didn’t make it to the small screen until 1966.
@THX 1139
Are you sure you don’t need permission from George Lucas to upgrade your name?
May 28th, 2019 at 1:30 pm
@Francis Boyle: George is fine with my added CGI and re-editing, we’re very close.
May 30th, 2019 at 8:31 pm
@Anna T: it does indeed look like something else. That gorilla looks like he’s enjoying it a little too much? Anyway, gorillas are our genetic cousins, so it’s all right. Sort of.
May 30th, 2019 at 9:04 pm
@GSS xn: It clearly says it in the title who the madman is. It is read as such:
Tarzan and the Madman Edgar Rice Burroughs
May 31st, 2019 at 12:46 am
@A-S: Of course! So ERB’s the one in the gorilla costume.
May 31st, 2019 at 2:03 am
@GSS ex-noob: that was how ERB was able to so accurately capture scenes of jungle life.
May 31st, 2019 at 7:15 am
@Bruce in No. 15. Thanks for the Jack Kirby links. I guess ol’ Jack was better at drawing things that existed in his imagination rather than real life. But that second link is great. I would drop everything and read that gorilla man story for the artwork alone.
May 31st, 2019 at 1:36 pm
@Bruce: Just looked at the Jack Kirby links. I know grooming is quite important to primates but the Gorilla Man’s neat haircut is still very impressive. Well done, Gorilla Man.
I don’t think the gorilla in the first link is too bad really, at least you can tell it’s a gorilla, the rest well… not too good. Also it’s as if Jack didn’t have enough faces to go round. The possiblyanoranguthingy in the foreground has a face a lot like the scientist and the whateveritis at the back doesn’t seem to have a face at all.
June 3rd, 2019 at 12:26 am
I’d totally read the first of the Kirby links, FF #13. It looks to be the height of WTFery in both art and story. I met Kirby for about 90 seconds a few months before he died, quite a thrill. I didn’t know he was going to be there, so had nothing for autographing.
June 12th, 2019 at 8:22 am
“A little more to the right… yeah, that’s the spot. Damn muscle is killing me. Thanks, Tarzan.”