American writer (1875–1950) Edgar Rice BurroughsBorn(1875-09-01)September 1, 1875Chicago, Illinois, USDiedMarch 19, 1950(1950-03-19) (aged 74)Encino, California, USResting placeTarzana, California, USOccupationNovelistPeriod1911–1950GenreAdventure, fantasy, lost world, sword and planet, planetary romance, soft science fiction, westernNotable works Tarzan series Barsoom series Notable awardsInkpot Award (1975)[1]SpouseEmma Centennia Hulbert (1900–1934) (divorced)Florence Gilbert (1935–1941) (divorced)Children3, including John Coleman BurroughsRelativesJames Pierce (son-in-law) Military serviceAllegianceUnited StatesService/branchUnited States ArmyYears of service1894–18971917–19191941–1945RankCadetTrooperMajorWar correspondentUnit Michigan Military Academy (1894–95) B Troop, 7th Cavalry (1896–97) 2nd Illinois Reserve Infantry (1917–19) Battles/warsIndian Wars Apache Wars Fort Grant First World War Home Defense Second World War Pacific War Signature Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in a series of twenty-four books by him) and John Carter (who was a recurring character in a series of eleven books), he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.[2] Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every possible way, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, films, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs's California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.[3] Burroughs was an explicit supporter of eugenics and scientific racism in both his fiction and nonfiction; Tarzan was meant to reflect these concepts. Biography[edit] Early life and family[edit] Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois,[a] the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs, a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs. Edgar's middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Coleman Rice Burroughs.[4][5][6] Burroughs was of English and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, with a family line that had been in North America since the Colonial era.[7][8] Through his Rice grandmother, Burroughs was descended from settler Edmund Rice, one of the English Puritans who moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 17th century. He once remarked: "I can trace my ancestry back to Deacon Edmund Rice."[citation needed] The Burroughs side of the family was also of English origin, having emigrated to Massachusetts around the same time. Many of his ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Some of his ancestors settled in Virginia during the colonial period, and Burroughs often emphasized his connection with that side of his family, seeing it as romantic and warlike.[6][8] Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools then at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. He graduated in 1895, but he failed the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy at West Point, so instead he enlisted with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. However, he was diagnosed with a heart problem and thus ineligible to serve, so he was discharged in 1897.[9] Burroughs's bookplate, showing Tarzan holding the planet Mars, surrounded by other characters from his stories and symbols relating to his personal interests and career. Typescript letter, with Tarzana Ranch letterhead, from Burroughs to Ruthven Deane, explaining the design and significance of his bookplate After his discharge, Burroughs worked at a number of different jobs. During the Chicago influenza epidemic of 1891, he spent half a year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho as a cowboy. He drifted afterward, then worked at his father's Chicago battery factory in 1899. He married his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert (1876–1944), in January 1900.[citation needed] In 1903, Burroughs joined his brothers, Yale graduates George and Harry, who were, by then, prominent Pocatello area ranchers in southern Idaho, and partners in the Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company, where he took on managing their ill-fated Snake River gold dredge, a classic bucket-line dredge. The Burroughs brothers were also the sixth cousins, once removed, of famed miner Kate Rice who, in 1914, became the first female prospector in the Canadian North. Journalist and publisher C. Allen Thorndike Rice was also his third cousin.[10] When the new mine proved unsuccessful, the brothers secured for Burroughs a position with the Oregon Short Line Railroad in Salt Lake City.[11] Burroughs resigned from the railroad in October 1904.[12] Later life[edit] By 1911, around age 36, after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs began to write fiction. By this time, Emma and he had two children, Joan (1908–1972), and Hulbert (1909–1991).[13] During this period, he had copious spare time and began reading pulp-fiction magazines. In 1929, he recalled thinking that: "[...] if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."[14] In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), later known for his illustrations of his father's books.[15] In the 1920s, Burroughs became a pilot, purchased a Security Airster S-1, and encouraged his family to learn to fly.[16][17] Daughter Joan married Tarzan film actor James Pierce. She starred with her husband as the voice of Jane, during 1932–1934 for the Tarzan radio series. Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934, and, in 1935, married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, who was the former wife of his friend (who was then himself remarrying), Ashton Dearholt, with whom he had co-founded Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises while filming The New Adventures of Tarzan. Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. He and Florence divorced in 1942.[18] Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.[19] Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II. This period of his life is mentioned in William Brinkley's bestselling novel Don't Go Near the Water.[20] Death[edit] After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost 80 novels. He is buried in Tarzana, California, US.[21] At the time of his death he was believed to have been the writer who had made the most from films, earning over US$2 million in royalties from 27 Tarzan pictures.[22] The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Burroughs in 2003.[23][24] Literary career[edit] Aiming his work at the pulps—under the name "Norman Bean" to protect his reputation—Burroughs had his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story.[25][26][27][b] Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series, introduced John Carter, and earned Burroughs US$400 ($11,922 today). It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books.[25] Burroughs soon took up writing full-time, and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished, he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, published from October 1912 and one of his most successful series.[citation needed] Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving adventurers from Earth transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands (Caspak), and into the interior of the Hollow Earth in his Pellucidar stories. He also wrote Westerns and historical romances. Besides those published in All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy magazine.[citation needed] Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong – the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.[citation needed] In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana". The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community, Tarzana, California, was formed in 1927.[28] Also, the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the US Postal Service accepted the name,[29] reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.[citation needed] In 1923, Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.[30] Reception[edit] Because of the part Burroughs's science fiction played in inspiring real exploration of Mars, an impact crater on Mars was named in his honor after his death.[31] In a Paris Review interview, Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs: "Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations. But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world. By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special."[32] In Something of Myself (published posthumously in 1937) Rudyard Kipling wrote: "My Jungle Books begat Zoos of [imitators]. But the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called Tarzan of the Apes. I read it, but regret I never saw it on the films, where it rages most successfully. He had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books and, I imagine, had thoroughly enjoyed himself. He was reported to have said that he wanted to find out how bad a book he could write and 'get away with', which is a legitimate ambition."[33] By 1963, Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction wrote when discussing reprints of several Burroughs novels by Ace Books, "an entire generation has grown up inexplicably Burroughs-less". He stated that most of the author's books had been out of print for years and that only the "occasional laughable Tarzan film" reminded the public of his fiction.[34] Gale reported his surprise that after two decades his books were again available, with Canaveral Press, Dover Publications, and Ballantine Books also reprinting them.[35] Few critical books have been written about Burroughs. From an academic standpoint, the most helpful are Erling Holtsmark's two books: Tarzan and Tradition[36] and Edgar Rice Burroughs;[37] Stan Galloway's The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan;[38] and Richard Lupoff's two books: Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs[39] and Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision.[40] Galloway was identified by James Edwin Gunn as "one of the half-dozen finest Burroughs scholars in the world";[41] Galloway called Holtsmark his "most important predecessor".[42] Burroughs strongly supported eugenics and scientific racism. His views held that English nobles made up a particular heritable elite among Anglo-Saxons. Tarzan was meant to reflect this, with him being born to English nobles and then adopted by talking apes (the Mangani). They express eugenicist views themselves, but Tarzan is permitted to live despite being deemed "unfit" in comparison and grows up to surpass not only them but black Africans, whom Burroughs clearly presents as inherently inferior. In one Tarzan story, he finds an ancient civilization where eugenics has been practiced for over 2,000 years, with the result that it is free of all crime. Criminal behavior is held to be entirely hereditary, with the solution having been to kill not only criminals but also their families. Lost on Venus, a later novel, presents a similar utopia where forced sterilization is practiced and the "unfit" are killed. Burroughs explicitly supported such ideas in his unpublished nonfiction essay I See A New Race. Additionally, his Pirate Blood, which is not speculative fiction and remained unpublished after his death, portrayed the characters as victims of their hereditary criminal traits (one a descendant of the corsair Jean Lafitte, another from the Jukes family).[43] These views have been compared with Nazi eugenics (though noting that they were popular and common at the time), with his Lost on Venus being released the same year the Nazis took power (in 1933).[44] In 2003, Burroughs was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.[45] Selected works[edit] Main article: Edgar Rice Burroughs bibliography Barsoom series (aka Martian series)[edit] Main article: Barsoom A Princess of Mars (1912) The Gods of Mars (1913) The Warlord of Mars (1914) Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916) The Chessmen of Mars (1922) The Master Mind of Mars (1927) A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) Swords of Mars (1934) Synthetic Men of Mars (1939) Llana of Gathol (1941) John Carter of Mars (1964, two stories from 1940 and 1943) Tarzan series[edit] Main article: Tarzan Tarzan of the Apes (1912) The Return of Tarzan (1913) The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) The Son of Tarzan (1915) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) Jungle Tales of Tarzan (stories 1916–1917) Tarzan the Untamed (1919) Tarzan the Terrible (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) Tarzan the Invincible (1930) Tarzan Triumphant (1931) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932) Tarzan's Quest (1935) Tarzan the Magnificent (1936) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947, written in 1944) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963, collects 1927 and 1936 children's books) Tarzan and the Madman (1964, written in 1940) Tarzan and the Castaways (1965, stories from 1940 to 1941) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995, rewritten version of 1946 fragment, completed by Joe R. Lansdale) Pellucidar series[edit] Main article: Pellucidar At the Earth's Core (1914) Pellucidar (1915) Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) Back to the Stone Age (1937) Land of Terror (1944, written in 1939) Savage Pellucidar (1963, stories from 1942) Venus series[edit] Main article: Venus series Pirates of Venus (1932) Lost on Venus (1933) Carson of Venus (1938) Escape on Venus (1946, stories from 1941 to 1942) The Wizard of Venus (1970, written in 1941) Caspak series[edit] The Land That Time Forgot (1918) The People That Time Forgot (1918) Out of Time's Abyss (1918) Moon series[edit] Part I: The Moon Maid (1923, serialized in Argosy, May 5 – June 2, 1923) Part II: The Moon Men (1925, serialized in Argosy, February 21 – March 14, 1925) Part III: The Red Hawk (1925 serialized in Argosy, September 5–19, 1925) These three texts have been published by various houses in one or two volumes. Adding to the confusion, some editions have the original (significantly longer) introduction to Part I from the first publication as a magazine serial, and others have the shorter version from the first book publication, which included all three parts under the title The Moon Maid.[46] Mucker series[edit] The Mucker (1914) The Return of the Mucker (1916) The Oakdale Affair (1918) Other science fiction[edit] The Monster Men (1913) The Lost Continent (1916; a.k.a. Beyond Thirty) The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937) Beyond the Farthest Star (1942) Jungle adventure novels[edit] The Cave Girl (1913, revised 1917) The Eternal Lover (1914, rev. 1915; A.K.A. The Eternal Savage) The Man-Eater (1915) The Lad and the Lion (1917) Jungle Girl (1931; A.K.A. The Land of Hidden Men) Western novels[edit] The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1924) The War Chief (1927) Apache Devil (1933) The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940) Historical novels[edit] The Outlaw of Torn (1914) I am a Barbarian (1967; written in 1941) Other works[edit] Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998; written in 1903) The Mad King (1914, rev. 1915) The Girl from Farris's  [d] (1916) The full text of The Girl from Farris's at Wikisource The Rider (1918) The Efficiency Expert (1921) The Girl from Hollywood (1922) Marcia of the Doorstep (1924) You Lucky Girl! (1927) Pirate Blood (1970; written in 1932) Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001; stories from 1910 to 1944) Brother Men (2005; nonfiction) See also[edit] Biography portalSpeculative fiction portal Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Mars in fiction Otis Adelbert Kline Sword and planet Explanatory notes[edit] ^ He later lived for many years in the Chicago suburb Oak Park. ^ A poem by Burroughs was published on October 15, 1910, in the Chicago Tribune as "by Normal Bean", and two more were published in the Tribune in 1914 and 1915.[25] "Norman" was an All-Story typesetter's presumptive correction of "Normal".[27] Burroughs used his own name for his other publications.[25] References[edit] ^ "Inkpot Award". comic-con.org. December 6, 2012. Archived from the original on January 29, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2020. ^ "Original Works < Edgar Rice Burroughs". Edgar Rice Burroughs. Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023. ^ "Tarzana and Tarzana Ranch, California". tarzana.ca. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023. ^ Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations (CD ed.). 2010. ^ "Edmund Rice Six-Generation Database Online". 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Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 119–123. ^ Holtsmark, Erling B. Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981. ^ Holtsmark, Erling B. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Twayne's United States Author Series. Boston: Twayne, 1986. ^ Galloway, Stan. The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. ^ Lupoff, Richard. Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. ^ Lupoff, Richard. Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision. Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1976. ^ Gunn, James. Foreword. The Teenage Tarzan by Stan Galloway. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. p. 3. ^ Preface. p. 5. ^ Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection Archived September 12, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, J. David Smith; Alison L. Mitchell Ment Retard (2001) 39 (3): 221–225. ^ Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus, Part 2: Lost on Venus Archived September 12, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, by Ryan Harvey, August 30, 2011, Black Gate Magazine. ^ "Science Fiction Hall of Fame - Winners by Year". SFADB. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2022. ^ ERBzine, archived from the original on August 22, 2007, retrieved November 15, 2007. Bibliography[edit] Holtsmark, Erling B. (1986), Edgar Rice Burroughs, Boston: Twain, ISBN 0-8057-7459-9 Spence, Clark C. (2015), History of Gold Dredging in Idaho, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ISBN 978-1-60732-474-4 Porges, Irwin (1975), Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan, Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Press Further reading[edit] Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Richard A. Lupoff Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan by John Taliaferro Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs by the Rev. Henry Hardy Heins Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer Burroughs's Science Fiction by Robert R. Kudlay and Joan Leiby Tarzan and Tradition and Edgar Rice Burroughs by Erling B. Holtsmark Edgar Rice Burroughs by Irwin Porges Edgar Rice Burroughs by Robert B. Zeuschner The Burroughs Cyclopædia ed. by Clark A. Brady A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy Tarzan: the Centennial Celebration by Scott Tracy Griffin Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Descriptive Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints by B. J. Lukes External links[edit] Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs in eBook form at Standard Ebooks Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs at Project Gutenberg Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs at Project Gutenberg Australia Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs at Faded Page (Canada) Works by or about Edgar Rice Burroughs at the Internet Archive Edgar Rice Burroughs at Library of Congress, with 347 library catalog records Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) [1] Complete Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated Bibliography by Bill Hillman's ERBzine.com Edgar Rice Burroughs at Wikipedia's sister projects Media from CommonsQuotations from WikiquoteTexts from WikisourceData from Wikidata Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (official website) Bibliography on SciFan Edgar Rice Burroughs at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs[dead link] / 1st UK editions list with pictures of the books Archived February 23, 2022, at the Wayback Machine "Edgar Rice Burroughs biography". 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The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (podcasts) ERBzine.com [2] list of UK 1st edition paperbacks vteEdgar Rice Burroughs (works)Tarzan novels Tarzan of the Apes (1912) The Return of Tarzan (1913) The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) The Son of Tarzan (1915) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) Tarzan the Terrible (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) Tarzan and the Madman (1964) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995) Tarzan collections Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) Tarzan the Untamed (1920) Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963) Tarzan and the Castaways (1965) Tarzanshort stories Tarzan's First Love (1916) The Capture of Tarzan (1916) The Fight for the Balu (1916) The God of Tarzan (1916) Tarzan and the Black Boy (1917) The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (1917) The End of Bukawai (1917) The Lion (1917) The Nightmare (1917) The Battle for Teeka (1917) A Jungle Joke (1917) Tarzan Rescues the Moon (1917) Tarzan the Untamed (1919) Tarzan and the Valley of Luna (1920) The Tarzan Twins (1927) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936) Tarzan and the Magic Men (1936) Tarzan and the Elephant Men (1937/38) Tarzan and the Champion (1940) Tarzan and the Jungle Murders (1940) Tarzan and the Castaways (1941) Other jungleadventures The Man-Eater (1915) The Cave Girl (1925) The Eternal Lover (1925) Jungle Girl (1932) The Lad and the Lion (1938) Martian series A Princess of Mars (1917) The Gods of Mars (1918) The Warlord of Mars (1919) Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) The Chessmen of Mars (1922) The Master Mind of Mars (1928) A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) Swords of Mars (1936) Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) Llana of Gathol (1948) John Carter of Mars (1964) Pellucidar series At the Earth's Core (1914) Pellucidar (1915) Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) Back to the Stone Age (1937) Land of Terror (1944) Savage Pellucidar (1963) Venus series Pirates of Venus (1934) Lost on Venus (1935) Carson of Venus (1939) Escape on Venus (1946) The Wizard of Venus (1964) Caspak series The Land That Time Forgot (1918) The People That Time Forgot (1918) Out of Time's Abyss (1918) Otherspeculative fiction Beyond Thirty (1915) The Moon Maid (1926) The Monster Men (1929) "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" (1937) Beyond the Farthest Star (1941) Tales of Three Planets (1964) Westerns The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) The War Chief (1927) Apache Devil (1933) The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940) Historical novels The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) I Am a Barbarian (1967) Ruritanian romances The Rider (1918) The Mad King (1926) Contemporarynovels The Mucker (1914/16) The Girl from Farris's (1916) The Oakdale Affair (1918) The Efficiency Expert (1921) The Girl from Hollywood (1923) Pirate Blood (1970) Marcia of the Doorstep (1999) Other works The Oakdale Affair and The Rider (1937) Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957) Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) You Lucky Girl! (1999) Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001) Brother Men (2005) Related Florence Gilbert (second wife) John Coleman Burroughs (son) Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Tarzana, Los Angeles Tarzan, Texas vteTarzan by Edgar Rice BurroughsLiteratureEdgar Rice Burroughs'official canon Tarzan of the Apes (1912) The Return of Tarzan (1913) The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) The Son of Tarzan (1915) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) Tarzan the Untamed (1920) Tarzan the Terrible (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) Tarzan and the Madman (1964) Tarzan and the Castaways (1965) Related works The Eternal Lover (1925) The Mad King (1926) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995) Licensed works Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974) Bunduki (1975) Flight to Opar (1976) Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996) The Dark Heart of Time (1999) The Adventures of Tarzan (1921/2006) Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy (2011) Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don (2015) Tarzan on the Precipice (2016) King Kong vs. Tarzan (2016) Tarzan Trilogy (2016) Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege (2017) FilmsSilent films Tarzan of the Apes (1918) The Romance of Tarzan (1918) The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) The Son of Tarzan (1920) The Adventures of Tarzan (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) Tarzan the Mighty (1928) Tarzan the Tiger (1929) 1930s theatrical films Tarzan the Fearless (1933) The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) Tarzan's Revenge (1938) MGM/RKO film seriesJohnny Weissmuller Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Tarzan Escapes (1936) Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) Tarzan Triumphs (1943) Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Lex Barker Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) Tarzan's Peril (1951) Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) Gordon Scott Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) Jock Mahoney Tarzan Goes to India (1962) Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) Mike Henry Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) Tarzan and the Great River (1967) Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968) Remakes Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959) Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) Warner Bros. films Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984) Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) The Legend of Tarzan (2016) Television films Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967) Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970) Tarzan in Manhattan (1989) Disney animated films Tarzan (1999) Tarzan & Jane (2002) Tarzan II (2005) Other animated films Tarzan of the Apes (1999) Tarzan (2013) Related documentaries Investigating Tarzan (1997) Non-English language Vanaraja Karzan (1938) Tarzan and the Brown Prince (1972) Adventures of Tarzan (1985) Tarzan Ki Beti (2002) TelevisionSeries Tarzan (1966–1968) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1976–1980) Tarzán (1991–1994) Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996–1997) The Legend of Tarzan (2001–2003) Tarzan (2003) Tarzan and Jane (2017–2018) Adventure hours The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour Tarzan and the Super 7 CharactersPeople Tarzan Jane Porter Harry Holt Korak La Meriem Muviro Waziri William Cecil Clayton Animals Cheeta Jad-bal-ja Kala Kerchak Mangani Nkima Tantor Tublat Disney version misc.Adaptations Musical Tarzan Rocks! Tarzan's Treehouse Video games Disney's Tarzan Activity Center Kingdom Hearts Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure Music and radioDisney Soundtrack "You'll Be in My Heart" "Strangers Like Me" "Son of Man" "Two Worlds" Radio Tarzan (radio program) Other "Gitarzan" (1969) "Jungle Boogie" (1973) "Tarzan Boy" (1985) "Tarzan & Jane" (1998) MiscellaneousSpeech Kreegah bundolo Tarzan yell Games Jungle Lord Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle Disney's Tarzan Tarzan: Untamed Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle Comics Tarzanesque Tarzan vs. Predator: At the Earth's Core Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips General Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke "Brothers of the Spear" Opar Pellucidar Starzan: Shouting Star of the Jungle Tarzan and Jane (musical) Tarzana, Los Angeles Zone (play) vteEdgar Rice Burroughs's BarsoomCharacters John Carter of Mars Ulysses Paxton Dejah Thoris Tars Tarkas Ras Thavas Literature series A Princess of Mars The Gods of Mars The Warlord of Mars Thuvia, Maid of Mars The Chessmen of Mars The Master Mind of Mars A Fighting Man of Mars Swords of Mars Synthetic Men of Mars Llana of Gathol John Carter of Mars Films Princess of Mars (2009) John Carter (2012) Games Warriors of Mars John Carter, Warlord of Mars (role-playing game) Jetan John Carter: Warlord of Mars (board game) Culture Kaldane Tharks Barsoomian language Other John Carter, Warlord of Mars (comics) The Number of the Beast (novel) "Sir Harold of Zodanga" (short story) "Mars: The Home Front" (short story) Rainbow Mars (short story collection) Weird Worlds (comics) Burroughs (Martian crater) Related Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. James Cameron's Avatar franchise vteEdgar Rice Burroughs's Caspak trilogyNovels The Land That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot Out of Time's Abyss Adaptations The Land That Time Forgot (1974) The People That Time Forgot The Land That Time Forgot (2009) Other media Creation (unfinished film) The War that Time Forgot (comics) Where Time Stood Still (game) vteInkpot Award (1970s)1974 Forrest J. Ackerman Ray Bradbury Kirk Alyn Milton Caniff Frank Capra Bob Clampett June Foray Eric Hoffman Chuck Jones Jack Kirby Stan Lee William R. "Bill" Lund Russ Manning Russell Myers Charles M. Schulz Phil Seuling Roy Thomas Bjo Trimble 1975 Barry Alfonso Brad Anderson Robert Bloch Vaughn Bodé Edgar Rice Burroughs Daws Butler Richard Butner Shel Dorf Will Eisner Mark Evanier Gil Kane Alan Light Dick Moores George Pal Rod Serling Joe Shuster Jerry Siegel Barry Windsor-Smith Jim Starlin Jim Steranko Theodore Sturgeon Larry Vincent 1976 Neal Adams Sergio Aragonés Mel Blanc Frank Brunner Rick Griffin Johnny Hart George Clayton Johnson Vicky Kelso Mel Lazarus Sheldon Mayer Dale Messick Alex Niño Don Rico Don Thompson Maggie Thompson 1977 Alfredo Alcala Carl Barks C. C. Beck Howard Chaykin Lester Dent Jackie Estrada Hal Foster Walter "The Shadow" Gibson Jim Harmon Robert A. Heinlein Gene Henderson Michael Kaluta Joe Kubert Harvey Kurtzman George Lucas Stan Lynde Byron Preiss Trina Robbins Stanley Ralph Ross Bill Scott David Scroggy Jay Ward Len Wein 1978 John Buscema Al Capp Gene Colan Gill Fox Tom French Steve Gerber Chester Gould Burne Hogarth Bob Kane Ken Krueger Bernie Lansky Gray Morrow Clarence Nash Grim Natwick Bill Rotsler Mike Royer Gilbert Shelton Dave Sheridan Bill Stout Frank Thorne Boris Vallejo Mort Weisinger Elmer Woggon 1979 Craig Anderson Steve Englehart Dale Enzenbacher Kelly Freas Virginia French H. R. 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