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Issue: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #85
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #85 of 131 Issues (140 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (4 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
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan (photo of Gordon Scott)
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Pages: 1
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The Happy Cereal!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Inside front cover.
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Tarzan and the Windmill of Maun Gah

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan [John Clayton]; N'Kima; Muviro; Tornak (mangani); Nala (mangani); Sheila Ross; Professor Ross; Mabundi
First Line: Reaching their favorite "digging place" for tubers, Tornak, the great ape, and his mate, Nala, hear strange sounds…
Synopsis: Tarzan helps a young woman locate her lost father. The woman and her father fly to Nairobi in a makeshift helicopter.
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Pages: 15
Job Number: 5610
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Mabu's Warning

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Genres: jungle
First Line: It was very strange.
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Tarzan and the Missing War Canoe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tarzan [John Clayton]; Jane Porter Clayton; Boy [Jack Clayton]; Dombie; Tantor; Wabandas (African tribe)
First Line: At the Waziri tribe's landing place, Dombie does a little boasting…
Synopsis: Boy and Dombie take a Waziri war canoe for a ride. As they drift down the river, they rile the Waziris' enemies, the Wabandas. Tarzan comes for the boys and uses an elephant to drag the canoe back up the river.
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Pages: 9
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Natongo; Zulena; Masembe; M'Kobi; N'Galeh
First Line: Natongo, the Zulu prince, stands at the side of the lovely Zulena...
Synopsis: Natongo thwarts an assassination attempt against Zulena and then survives an attempt on his own life. Natongo proposes marriage to Zulena.
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In Content Item: FlagBrothers of the Spear Archives #2 published February 2013
as Episode 61: "Natongo, the Zulu Prince, stands at the side of the lovely Zulena,..." [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Wart Hog

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle, nature
Character(s): Boy [Jack Clayton}
First Line: Although he is not a handsome steed, the Wart Hog is both sturdy and dependable.
Synopsis: Portrait of Boy riding a wart hog.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
Character(s): Tarzan
First Line: Subscribe now and receive this free gift!
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Disclose Notes: House ad offers a subscription to Tarzan comics at 1 year (12 issues) for $1.20, which includes a "handsome" ball point pen and a Dell Comics Club Membership Certificate.
Dell Comics "A Pledge to Parents" in bottom left corner of page.
Inside back cover.
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First Line: Most beautiful bike in the world!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for a Schwinn Phantom bicycle. Send for a free full color Schwinn bike folder.
Back cover.

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