At the time the interview with Henning Kure, “Where Have All the Fans Gone?” was submitted to George McWhorter at the Burroughs Bibliophiles for inclusion in The Burroughs Bulletin, Henning supplied a listing of projects for the Tarzan comic book he was managing for Semic and Malibu. The list follows. Clearly Henning is a great fan of Tarzan. As you can tell from the names of the creators involved with bringing these adventures to Tarzan fans, Tarzan appeals to people around the globe. This is appropriate, because Tarzan is truly a citizen of the world. (Note: A chapter is one U.S. issue -- about 24 pages.) [Another note: From the list below, it’s clear Henning and the creators with whom he was working were great fans of Tarzan and ERB, and had many interesting plans for the Tarzan series, most of them firmly based in the Tarzan canon established by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Only a few of their ideas were eventually published, and one wishes Dark Horse or another publisher would pick up these efforts and actually print them.]
TARZAN THE WARRIOR (published)
5 chapters
1988, May. Tarzan brings a tribe of "Big Foot" to Africa, making a quite exotic detour. In Africa he confronts Jean-Raoul deCoude, who claims to be an illegitimate son of Tarzan and Olga deCoude, in order to save his 70 year old grandson, Jackie, the present Lord Greystoke
Script: Mark Wheatley
Art: Neil Vokes and Marc Hempel (inks on #1-3)
Color: Damon Willis
TARZAN: LOVE, LIES, AND THE LOST CITY (published)
3 chapters
1980s. Jane goes to Opar to rescue the granddaughter of Zora Drinov and Wayne Colt. Jane doesn't know that Opar has another captive—Tarzan.
Script: Henning Kure
Art: Peter Snejbjerg and Teddy Kristiansen
Color: Teddy Kristiansen
TARZAN: THE BECKONING (published)
7 chapters
1990. Tarzan fights illegal ivory trade in San Francisco, as well as One-Punch Mullargan's son and a spell cast by the witch doctor who gave him eternal youth, the African “Spider” Man. Jane comes to his rescue, but loses her memory instead and turns into a wild jungle girl. The characters discover a new lost city -- Rmoahal. This story has it all!
Script: Thomas Yeates and Henning Kure
Art: Thomas Yeates
Color: Kathryn Mayer (with Damon Willis on #1-2)
TARZAN: THE RIVERS OF BLOOD (partially published)
4 prestige format books (48 pages each)
1914, spring. Tarzan goes to Vienna to employ the help of Sigmund Freud; instead, he ends up getting involved in the outbreak of World War I with d'Arnot and Korak. He finally meets C.G. Jung and inspires the theories about the collective unconscious and the archetypes. [Note by Duane: By the time this mini began appearing in print, the four-issue format had been abandoned for the typical comic book length, and the story was to appear in 8 issues. Unfortunately, the series was ended mid-stream, after 4 issues, and remains unfinished to this day. I find the lack of completion for this adventure very disappointing, because the execution was excellently handled, and the story was one of far greater depth than the typical Tarzan comic story -- I find this tale to be the best-imagined comic book effort for Tarzan since Joe Kubert’s adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes for DC Comics.]
Script: Neven Anticevic and Henning Kure
Art and color: Igor Kordej [See an interview excerpt about this mini-series with Kordej by clicking here.]
TARZAN AND THE REALLY LOST CITY
4 chapters
1989. We see the fate of a lost city after it's been discovered. Tarzan becomes a rock drummer in order to fight a villainous Donald Trump-type, who has shocking plans for Xuja (the lost city of Tarzan the Untamed).
Script: Heff Munson
Art: Chris Schenk and Ken Hooper
TARZAN: LAST VISIT TO CAMELOT
2 chapters
1963, Nov. Tarzan's relationship with John F. Kennedy is introduced. Why couldn't Tarzan save JFK that day, thirty years ago?
Script: Per Sanderhage
Art: Igor Kordej
TARZAN ETERNAL
7 chapters
1952. British East Africa explodes in the Mau-Mau revolution. Tarzan decides he must "die," because he is a symbol or racism and supremacy.
Script: Al Gross
Art: not determined
TARZAN: THE RETURN OF PAUL D'ARNOT
5 chapters
1933. Tarzan must go to the South American jungle and Devil's Island to rescue d'Amot. On the way, in Algiers, he meets again Ouled Nail, whom he met in The Return of Tarzan.
Script: Darko Macan
Art: not determined
TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE MYSTERY
10 chapters
1895-1896. A series of interconnecting short stories occurring in England immediately after The Return of Tarzan. Tarzan must learn to become an English lord. He'll also meet Sherlock Holmes, the Loch Ness monster, etc., and the strange secret of the Greystoke family will be revealed.
Script: Peter Tremayne
Art: Art Wetherell
TARZAN AND THE WOMEN OF THE ROCK
4 chapters
1902, March. Jane is worried about Tarzan's eternal youth and secretly she tries to get a similar treatment with the Anasazi—the lost pueblo tribe of New Mexico. Porter reveals surprising information about his own youth and Jane's forgotten childhood.
Script: Lewis Shiner
Art: Chris Schenk
TARZAN AND THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
2 chapters
1900s. D'Arnot invites Lord and Lady Greystoke to a night at the opera in Paris. Script: Lovern Kindzierski
Art: Brian Athorp [note by Duane: Dark Horse published this tale, but with art by a different team than Athorp.]
TARZAN AND THE DOLPHIN NATION
7 chapters
Tarzan must teach Captain Nemo to live in harmony with the "jungle" of 20,000 leagues beneath the sea.
Script: Sarah Byam
Art: Ken Hooper
TARZAN: HERE BE DRAGONS
2 chapters
1980s. Tarzan has a confrontation with Mokele-Mbembe, the legendary dinosaur of central Africa.
Script and art: Tim Burgard
Color: Tim Burgard and Tom Luth
TARZAN AND THE INVASION FROM MARS
? chapters
1955. The green men of Mars (Barsoom) plan to invade Arizona. Luckily, the suspicious newcomers in town, Jane and John Caldwell, save the planet.
Script: Mark Wheatley and Heff Munson
Art: not determined
TARZAN AND THE MUCKER
? chapters
1920s. A confrontation with ninjas leads Tarzan to a lost samurai island. Here he meets another civilized man who was raised in the jungle -- though Billy Byrne's jungle was made of concrete.
Script: James Robinson
Art: not determined
TARZAN AND MOWGLI
? chapters
1890s. Tarzan in India. The story win explore the differences between the ape-man and the wolf-boy.
Script: Per Sanderhage
Art: not determined
Tarzan Short Stories
(One U.S. issue/chapter per story)
TARZAN'S FIRST LOVE (published)
Script: Matt Wagner (adaptation)
Art: Teddy Kristiansen
TARZAN: THE SCAR (published)
Script: Walt Simonson
Art: Peter Snejbjerg
TARZAN: THE LEGEND OF MUGAMBI
Script: Darko Macan
Art: Igor Kordej [note by Duane: This was eventually published by Dark Horse.]
TARZAN IN THE GLITTERING CITY
Script: Damon Willis (adaptation of the last chapter of Tarzan and the Lion Man)
Art: Damon Willis
TARZAN AND THE GATEWAY
Script: Heff Munson
Art: George Evans and George Pratt
Color: Mark Wheatley
TARZAN: THE FRAIL THREAD
Script: Dave Rawson and Pat McGreal
Art: Mike Gustovich
Color: Kathryn Mayer
TARZAN: TRACES
Script: Lovern Kindzierski
Color: Digital Chameleon
TARZAN: LIFE AND DEATH!
Script: Heff Munson
Art: Colleen Doran
TARZAN AND THE TWO GRAVES
Script: Al Gross
Art: Art Wetherell
Color: Mark Wheatley
TARZAN: THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
Script: Al Gross
Art: Art Wetherell
TARZAN: THE COMING OF JERVIS
Script: Per Sanderhage
Art: Art Wetherell
Stories in development
How ERB got his facts for the stories about Tarzan and John Carter, and how he eventually met them. This story will involve a certain Norman Bean, born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1855!
Jane's story -- from growing up in Baltimore to marrying Tarzan.
Tarzan's first American adventure (between Apes and Return). He will meet the American Mangani (sasquatch) and a certain young cadet from the Michigan Military Academy.
Mugambi's first love -- he lost her to white raiders, who included a certain Lt. d' Arnot.
Tarzan's turning savage in the fight against the Germans during World War I (between chapters 1 and 2 of Untamed).
Flora Hawkes trying to win Tarzan from Jane.
The fate of Korak and Meriem.
C.G. Jung's African travels.
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen).
How Tarzan stopped the Nazis from raiding Opar prior to WWII. This involves characters from Golden Lion (Adolph Bluber) and a river boat called The African Queen and her tough-guy captain.
Tarzan on Barsoom.
A story titled TARZAN: BACK TO THE CORE. Guess where that takes place?!
The long-term affects of the Kavuru pills. This will be a nasty story.
How Tarzan becomes Lord Greystoke again, after the present Lord Greystoke -- Tarzan's grandson Jackie -- dies of old age.
And just who are these "gods" that seem to manipulate Tarzan's life all the time, constantly creating the most incredible coincidences?
Beyond the above, prestige format one-shots are planned with the following artists: Thomas Yeates, Tim Sale, and William Stout.
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