Tarzan Takeoffs in Films

Tarzan inspired film studios to invent their versions of a jungle hero.  The results range from hysterical to sober. In 1973, Disney mined Tarzan for laughs in The World’s Greatest Athlete, a benign film set on the fictional Merrivale College campus.  Faced with...

Tarzan in the Movies

The first appearance of Tarzan in popular culture took place in the 1912 magazine story Tarzan of the Apes.  The character expanded to comic strips on January 7, 1929 under the aegis of Harold Foster. Buck Rogers’ comic strip also debuted on this date.  The...