by David Krell | Apr 9, 2013 | David Krell
42: The Jackie Robinson Story opens in theatres on Friday, April 12th. The date is appropriate — nearly 66 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his official debut in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947. He played, of course, for the Brooklyn...
by David Krell | Apr 7, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan takeoffs conquered comic books. Naturally. When something is worth parodying or paralleling, it’s worth parodying or paralleling as much as possible. The comic book arena provided another platform for creators to capitalize on Tarzan’s...
by David Krell | Apr 6, 2013 | David Krell
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...
by David Krell | Apr 5, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan’s popularity inspired takeoffs, parodies, and parallels. Television, in particular, provided a fertile platform for these offerings. On November 11, 1962, Carol Burnett gest starred on The Jack Benny Program. She plays Jane in the Jack Plays Tarzan...
by David Krell | Apr 4, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan benefited from the superhero craze of the mid-1960s ignited by the 1966 launch of the camp television show Batman. On September 8, 1966, Ron Ely debuted as the title character in Tarzan. Jane did not appear on the show. It lasted two seasons. Twenty-five...
by David Krell | Apr 3, 2013 | David Krell
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...
