9) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923)

In the previous novel - Tarzan the Terrible - Tarzan rescued Jane after he discovered that she was alive, and was reunited with his son Korak. In this story he and his family encounter and adopt an orphaned lion cub, whom they name Jad-bal-ja ("The Golden Lion" in the language of the lost land of Pal-ul-don, which they have recently left). They then return to their African estate, gutted by the Germans during the course of World War I in Tarzan the Untamed. They find it already being rebuilt by Tarzan's faithful Waziri warriors, including old Muviro, who first appears in this novel after a previous mention in Tarzan the Untamed. Muviro reappears in a number of later novels as sub-chief of the Waziri. Back at home, Tarzan raises Jad-bal-ja, who in adulthood is a magnificent black-maned golden lion devoted to the Ape Man. Later Tarzan is drugged and delivered to the priests of Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis that he had last visited in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Once again La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God, who is consumed by her hopeless infatuation with Tarzan, rescues him. But when her people discover that she had betrayed them, she flees with Tarzan into the legendary Valley of Diamonds, where savage gorillas rule. The good news is that Tarzan and La are followed by the faithful Jad-bal-ja. The bad news is that they are also being trailed by Esteban Miranda, who happens to look exactly like Tarzan, who hopes to locate and loot Opar.

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Written between February and May 1922.

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1922, December 9, 16, 23, 30; 1923, January 6, 13, 20. Art by P.J. Monahan: December 9 cover ~ Stout: one b/w interior in each instalment.

First Book Edition: McClurg, March 24, 1923; 333 pages. 1st Ed. Print Run: 25,000 ~ Total: 228,500. Art: J. Allen St. John: cover and eight interior plates

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1923 with the addition of one extra illustration by Roy Krenkel.

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8) Tarzan the Terrible (1921)

In the previous novel - Tarzan the Untamed - during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel. Jane is also being held captive in Pal-ul-don, having been brought there by her German captor, who has since become dependent on her due to his own lack of jungle survival skills. She becomes a pawn in a religious power struggle that consumes much of the novel. With the aid of his native allies, Tarzan continues to pursue his beloved to rescue her and set things to right, going through an extended series of fights and escapes to do so. In the end success seems beyond even his ability to achieve, until in the final chapter he and Jane are saved by their son Korak, who has been searching for Tarzan just as Tarzan has been searching for Jane.

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ERB commenced writing this in August 1920.

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1921: February 12, 19, 26; March 5, 12, 19, 26. P.J. Monahan: cover ~ no interiors.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg: June 20, 1921. 408 pages ~ 1st Ed. Print Run: 45,000 copies. Total: 262,500. J. Allen St. John: cover and nine interior sepia plates. Edgar Rice Burroughs: map of Pal-ul-don and glossary.

We followed here the McClurg First Edition of 1921 with the addition of one extra illustration by Boris Vallejo.

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7) Tarzan the Untamed (1920)

Tarzan the Untamed is the seventh book in the Tarzan series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan the Untamed" (AKA "Tarzan and the Huns") in Redbook from March to August, 1919, and "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" in All-Story Weekly from March to April 1920. The two stories were combined under the title of the first in the first book edition, published in 1920 by A. C. McClurg. In order of writing, the book follows Jungle Tales of Tarzan, a collection of short stories about the ape-man's youth. Chronologically, it follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.

Tarzan faced his worst attack--an attack against his wife and child. With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family--only to find that the marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Of his beloved wife there was only a charred, blackened corpse, still wearing the rings he had given her. Silently, he buried the body and swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this terrible deed. Then he set out grimly to track them ... through warring armies...across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed...and to a strange valley where only madmen lived. 

 

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ERB commenced writing this in September 1918. Working title: Tarzan and the Huns.
First published by Red Book Magazine: 1919 March through August ~ Tarzan the Untamed. Art: Charles Livingston Bull: 25 b/w illustrations
All-Story Weekly: 1920 March 20, 27 ~ April 3, 10, 17 ~ Tarzan and the Valley of Luna. Art: P.J. Monahan: March 20 cover ~ no interiors.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg: April 30, 1920; 428 pages. 1st. Ed. Print Run: 77,000 copies. Total: 299,500 copies. Art: J. Allen St. John: cover and nine interior sepia plates.

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1920 with the addition of one extra illustration by Boris Vallejo.

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