In the news for ERB fans: Just published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. are new, authorized editions of all 24 Tarzan novels with new cover art by Joe Jusko.
For complete info click HERE.
BONUS! Here is the second issue of THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS fanzine from the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society, published in 1976.
Read the first issue HERE.
I picked up the first few of those new Tarzan books and was rather disappointed. They sufficiently made but not overpoweringly so. And the covers by Jusko are really good but not great in my opinion. And the extras in each volume were quite meager. This is a lost opportunity I think to give readers solid volumes with copious background materials putting ERB's Ape Man into literary perspective. These books don't rise to that level sadly.
ReplyDeleteThere is certainly no shortage of ERB material anywhere you buy books these days. I came across nearly an entire shelf of his novels at a used book store last week, including some of the early Ace's. While I really like Jusko's art, it's not enough to get me to buy another edition of a book I already have -- unless of course it's from Canaveral Press.
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