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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