Tarzan (comics)

Tarzan
Dell's Tarzan #1 (January–February 1948)
Publication information
Publisher	Dell Comics Gold Key Comics Charlton Comics DC Comics Marvel Comics Dark Horse Comics Idaho Comics Group
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Dell Comics January–February 1948 - July–August 1962 Gold Key Comics November 1962 - February 1972 Charlton Comics December 1964 – July 1965 DC Comics April 1972 – February 1977 Marvel Comics June 1977 – October 1979
Number of issues	Dell Comics 130 (#1-130) Gold Key Comics 75 (#132 - #206) Charlton Comics 4 (#1-4) DC Comics 52 (#207 - #258) Marvel Comics 29 (#1 - #29) plus 3 Annuals Idaho Comics Group 2 (#1-2)
Creative team
Writer(s)	List Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics Gaylord DuBois DC Comics Joe Kubert Marvel Comics Sharman DiVono, Mark Evanier, Roy Thomas Dark Horse Comics Chuck Dixon, Ron Marz, Walt Simonson Idaho Comics Group Dennis Eichhorn
Artist(s)	List Dell Comics Jesse Marsh Gold Key Comics Russ Manning, Alberto Giolitti DC Comics Joe Kubert Marvel Comics John Buscema, Dan Spiegle Dark Horse Comics Igor Kordey, Carlos Meglia, Lee Weeks Idaho Comics Group Scott Pentzer
Creator(s)	Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in 23 sequels. The character proved immensely popular and quickly made the jump to other media, including comics.

Tarzan of the Apes was adapted into newspaper strip form, first published January 7, 1929, with illustrations by Hal Foster. A full page Sunday strip began on March 15, 1931, with artwork by Rex Maxon.United Feature Syndicate distributed the strip.

Over the years, many artists have drawn the Tarzan comic strip, notably Burne Hogarth, Ruben Moreira, Dan Barry, Bob Lubbers, John Celardo, Russ Manning, Gil Kane, Mike Grell, and Gray Morrow. The daily strip began to reprint old dailies after the last Russ Manning daily (#10,308, which ran on 29 July 1972). The Sunday strip also turned to reprints circa 2000. Both strips continue as reprints today in a few newspapers and in Comics Revue magazine. NBM Publishing did a quality reprint series of the Foster and Hogarth work on Tarzan in a series of hardback and paperback reprints in the 1990s. In 2014, Dark Horse Books began to reprint the Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth Sundays in the original full page size.