11) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1928)

Tarzan finds an outpost of European knights and crusaders from a "forbidden valley" hidden in the mountains. His lion ally Jad-bal-ja puts in an appearance late in the book. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle marks an important transition in the plot-type presented in the Tarzan series, presaged by the earlier Tarzan the Untamed. Previous novels dealt primarily with the ape-man's own affairs and family; beginning with this novel, he becomes an apparently rootless adventurer serving as a savior and enabler of a cast of secondary characters which changes in each book. While a few previously established and new characters continue to appear, notably the lion Jad-bal-Ja, the monkey Nkima, and Muviro, sub-chief of Tarzan's Waziri tribe, along with his warriors, most formerly major characters are dropped aside from an occasional token appearance. The novel also continues the trend, first seen in The Return of Tarzan and established definitively in Tarzan the Untamed, of taking Tarzan to a new lost civilization or tribe in almost every book.

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Written May to July 1927

First published by: «Blue Book Magazine»: 1927 December ~ 1928 January – May. J. Allen St. John: Jan. 1928 cover (first for ERB) ~ Dec. 1927 cover artist unknown. Frank Hoban: Many interiors.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg & Co.: September 15, 1928 ~ (377 pages 7,500 copies 1st Ed.) ~ Total: 122,777. J. Allen St. John: cover, title page and five interior sepia plates. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Map art of the Valley of the Sepulcher

We followed the Grosset & Dunlap 1929 edition with the addition of one extra illustrations by Neal Adams.

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10) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)

Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself. The Minunians live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other. Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours. Tarzan is captured on the battle-ground and taken prisoner by the Veltopismakusians. The Veltopismakusian scientist Zoanthrohago conducts an experiment reducing Tarzan to the size of a Minunian, and the ape-man is imprisoned and enslaved among other Trohanadalmakusian prisoners of war. He meets, though, Komodoflorensal in the dungeons of Veltopismakus, and together they are able to make a daring escape.

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ERB commenced writing June 20, 1923 ~ finished November 22, 1923

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1924; February 2, 9, 16, 23 ~ March 1, 8, 15. Cover by Stockton Mulford ~ One interior illustration per issue by Roger B. Morrison.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg & Co, September 30, 1924 ~ 346 pages ~ 1st Ed. Print Run: 10,000 ~ Total: 187,500. J. Allen St. John: wrap-around cover and frontispiece version of cover in sepia. Contains "How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales".

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1924 with the addition of two extra illustrations by Neal Adams and Frank Frazetta.

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