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Volume  064


ERB COMIC STRIPS

TARZAN COMIC STRIPS: Sunday Pages and Daily Strips
During the Edgar Rice Burroughs Input Years: 1929-1950
TARZAN DAILY STRIPS

 
 

ARTIST LIST

HAL FOSTER 1929-37
REX MAXON 1929-47
BURNE HOGARTH 1937-50
WILLIAM JUHRE 1936-38
DAN BARRY 1947-49
JOHN LEHTI 1949
PAUL REINMAN 1949-50
NICK CARDY 1950
BOB LUBBERS 1950-54
JOHN CELARDO 1953-68
RUSS MANNING - 1967-1979
GIL KANE 1979-81
MIKE GRELL 1981-83
GRAY MORROW 1983-
 

SUNDAY TARZAN STRIPS
Rex Maxon #1 - March 15, 1931 to #28 - September 20, 1931
Hal Foster #29 - September 27, 1931 to #321 - May 2, 1937
Burne Hogarth #322 May 9, 1937 to #768 - November 25, 1945
Rubimore (Reuben Manning) #769 - December 2, 1947 to #856 - August 3, 1947
Burne Hogarth #857 - August 10, 1947 to #1015 - August 20, 1950
Bob Lubbers #1016 - August 27, 1950 to #1198 - February 21, 1954
John Celardo #1199 - February 28, 1954 to #1922 - January 7, 1968
Russ Manning #1923 - January 14, 1968 to 1979
Gil Kane 1979 - 1981
Mike Grell 1981 - 1983
Gray Morrow 1983 to present

THE DAILY TARZAN STORY-STRIPS (*reprinted in BLBs)
Tarzan of the Apes - Hal Foster (January 1929)
    (Reprinted as The Illustrated Tarzan Book No. I - G&D)
*The Return of Tarzan - Rex Maxon
*The Beasts of Tarzan - Rex Maxon
*The Son of Tarzan - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan and the Lost Empire - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle - Rex Maxon
Tarzan at the Earth's Core - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan the Terrible - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan and the Ant Men - Rex Maxon
*Tarzan the Untamed - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Ape Man (movie) - Rex Maxon
Tarzan the Invincible - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the City of Gold - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Lion Man - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Fire Gods - Rex Maxon
**The Tarzan Twins - Rex Maxon (copied by J. Bennet for BLB)
Tarzan and the Leopard Men - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Mayan Goddess - William Juhre
Tarzan's Quest - William Juhre
Tarzan the Magnificent - William Juhre
Tarzan Under Fire - William Juhre
Tarzan the Fearless (movie) - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Elephant Men - Rex Maxon
Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr - Rex Maxon

On August 27, 1939, the strip dropped its original four-panel format with text below and adapted the format still in use today. Most of these numbered daily strips have been copied in the  English comic, Tarzan Adventures.

Rex Maxon - #1 to #2508
Burne Hogarth #2509 to #2616
Dan Barry #2617 to #2892
John Lehti #2893 to # 2958
Paul Reinman #2959 to #3276
N. Cardy #3277 to #3414
Bob Lubbers #3415 to 4500
John Celardo #4501 (January 1954) to #8856 (December 9, 1967)
Russ Manning #8857 (December 11, 1967) to 1979
Gil Kane 1979 - 1981
Mike Grell 1981 - 1983
Gray Morrow 1983 to present
 

John Celardo
Celardo studied at the New York School of Industrial Arts. He was a staff artist for Fiction House - a pulp magazine and comic book publisher. After a stint in the military he began doing free lance work in 1948.

Thirty-six year old John Celardo of Staten Island officially took over the Tarzan daily strip on January 18, 1954 and the Sunday strip on February 28, 1954. He probably had been inking Bob Lubber's Tarzan strips for quite some time before these dates. This early work was very similar to Lubbers' but he gradually developed a more simple, less complicated and perhaps "lazier" style. He produced a total of 4350 daily strips (#4507-#8856) and 724 Sunday strips (#1199-#1922) - an output second only to Rex Maxon. Bob Hodes of ERB, Inc. was instrumental in enlisting the services of Russ Manning as the artist to replace Celardo.