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Issue: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #59
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #59 of 131 Issues (140 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Some have suggested the possibility of George Wilson in addition to suggesting Gollub. But, this is one of six Gollub paintings identified and represented with a photograph of the original painting appearing in Edgar Rice Burroughs Library of Illustration Vol. 2.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan [John Clayton]; Loma; Keelim; Gorgo (giant Cape buffalo); Ilio; bolganis of Athne; terribs; Loban
First Line: Crossing the Great Barrier Swamp on Gorgo, his huge Cape buffalo,Tarzan pauses at the edge of a wide waterway...
Synopsis: Tarzan learns that Prince Keelim of Lutor has been taken by the bolganis of Athne. As he speeds to Keelim's rescue, he encounters a troop of terribs. Tarzan manipulates the terribs and bolganis into fighting each other and frees all the bolgani captives.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: 548
Disclose Notes: Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is given as "Tarzan Rescues a Prince."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Boy
Character(s): Boy [Jack Clayton]; Dombie; Isilo; Wandoros (African tribe)
First Line: Boy! Dombie! It is good that I have found you so quickly!
Synopsis: Boy and Dombie hurry to Wandoro country to find Tarzan who is searching for medicinal herbs needed by the Waziri. The boys soon find themselves climbing a tree to escape a charging Cape buffalo. The tree is a bee tree and a honey guide, a small bird, brings Wandoro warriors to kill the buffalo and free the boys.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is given as "The Honey Guide."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan [John Clayton]; Jane Porter Clayton; Boy [Jack Clayton]; Ilonyi; Ellenya; Shira (leopards); Felix (leopards); La; the white pygmies
First Line: Having finished the education of two hunting panthers, Tarzan is about to leave his camp...
Synopsis: Tarzan hurries to Opar to free Jane and the white pygmy queen Ellenya from La and the men of Opar.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Story title in Gaylord Du Bois's notebook is given as "The Galleries of Opar."
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Day of Days

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Page 1495 of Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, SERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS states, "WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY. Day of days. (In Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, Aug. 1954, p. [40-41]) Appl. Author: Western Print. & Litho. Co., employer for hire of Elizabeth Beecher. © Western Print. & Litho. Co.; 6Jul54; B5-28368."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Dan-El; Natongo; Mohaffa
First Line: That way, Natongo, lies home!
Synopsis: Crossing the desert on their way back to Aba-Zulu, Dan-El and Natongo save a merchant caravan from bandits.
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In Content Item: FlagBrothers of the Spear Archives #1 published January 2012
as Episode 35: "That way, Natongo, lies home!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Page 1495 of Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, SERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS states, "WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY. Brothers of the spear. (In Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan) Appl. Author: Western Print. & Litho. Co., employer for hire of Gaylord Du Bois. © Western Print. & Litho. Co. Aug54. © 6Jul; B5-28352."

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