Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don (2015) by Will Murray
As a boy, I decided to indulge my love for Tarzan movies by acquiring and reading some of the original books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. W hen I was 10 years old, I received the first 5 Tarzan books in a slipcase for Christmas. These were the editions with cover art by Neal Adams and I dove in with zealous fervor. I was so hooked that my first attempt at original writing was a Tarzan pastiche involving the apeman and dinosaurs that has sadly been lost to the ravages of time, unlike my later attempt at a Kung Fu action adventure novel that still exists in a mostly intact form (all 176 hand-written pages of it!). Years later I re-read almost the entire Tarzan run again along with much of Burroughs' Mars and Venus series and various trips to Pellucidar . I found myself genuinely marveling at what still works, while being aware of many of Burroughs' shortcomings. Action and sweep were abundant, along with heaping doses of im...
