Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with the ape-man in The Beasts of Tarzan and wants to even the score. He lures Jack, Tarzan's son, away from London and into his clutches, but the youngster escapes with the help of the ape named Akut.
The pair then flees into the deep African jungle where two decades earlier Tarzan himself had been raised. Jack Clayton, now on his own, becomes known as Korak the Killer and builds a reputation for himself in the jungle. Like his father before him, he finds his own place among the great apes, and also like his father, meets and rescues a beautiful young woman, Meriem, the daughter of a Captain in the French Foreign Legion, who was also a Prince (Prince de Cadrenet), named Armand Jacot.
Arguably, the book is as much about Meriem, wife of Korak, as it is about Tarzan's son.
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Originally published in the All-Story Weekly magazine as a six-part serial from December 4, 1915-January 8, 1916.
First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg in March 1917.
Reprints:
A.C. McClurg: 1917 - second state first edition.
A.C. McClurg: 1918 - third and fourth state editions
A.L. Burt: 1918-1928 - many reprint editions΄same illustrations but just front-side DJ
Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Αll earlier St. John illustrations included.
We followed the Grosset & Dunlap, 1927 edition, which was identical to the McClurg 1917 edition, with the addition of one extra illustration by Frank Frazetta.
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