Price: 1.00 USD
Pages: 84
On-sale Date: 1974-05-09
Editing: E. Nelson Bridwell; Allan Asherman (assistant editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-29 Edit Cover
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The Return of Tarzan
(Table of Contents)

Tarzan / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1019
Characters:
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION, No. C-29. Published bi-monthly by NATIONAL PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, Inc., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10019. Carmine Infantino, Publisher. E. Nelson Bridwell, Editor. Allan Asherman, Assistant Editor. Sol Harrison, Vice-President--Production Manager. Copyright © 1974 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this magazine are entirely fictional. No actual persons, living or dead, are intended or should be inferred. Printed in the U.S.A.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #106.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Tarzan / table of contents / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Letters:
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1018
Characters:
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Return of Tarzan, Part 1: Trial by Treachery
(Table of Contents: 2)

Tarzan / comic story / 17.5 pages

Script:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel)
Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Kubert (original editor)
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1001
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo); Paul Darnot
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Tarzan's Animal Facts / cartoon / 0.5 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; animal
  • Job Number:K-1240
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Why is the proboscis monkey so-called and where does it live?
Reprints (0)
  • From ?

Part 2: Fury in the Desert
(Table of Contents: 4)

Tarzan / comic story / 14 pages

Script:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel)
Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Kubert (original editor)
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1002
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo); Paul Darnot
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence.

Part 3: Back to the Primitive
(Table of Contents: 5)

Tarzan / comic story / 14 pages

Script:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel)
Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Kubert (original editor)
    Genre:jungle; adventure
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter (flashback, cameo)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence. Likely this is job number N-1003, but it's not labeled.

[Pinup]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Tarzan / illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1016
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter

Indexer Notes

Double sized pinup of Tarzan rescuing a blond woman from alligators or crocodiles.

How to Draw Tarzan's Animals
(Table of Contents: 7)

Tarzan / activity / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1017
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

How to draw an ape, elephant, lion, and alligator or crocodile.

Part 4: The City of Gold
(Table of Contents: 8)

Tarzan / comic story / 16 pages

Script:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel)
Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Kubert (original editor)
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1004
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence.

[Word Puzzle]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Tarzan's Word Puzzle / activity / 1 page

Script:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:P-26

Indexer Notes

Fill in the words to get a quote from the original novel.

Part 5: The Pit of Doom!
(Table of Contents: 10)

Tarzan / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (original novel)
Joe Kubert (adaptation)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Kubert (original editor)
    Genre:jungle; adventure
Characters:
Tarzan; Jane Porter
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Return of Tarzan". The page numbering continues from the previous story sequence. Likely this is job number N-1005, but it's not labeled.

Is Tarzan Alive?
(Table of Contents: 11)

Tarzan / text article / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Kubert (head shot illo)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (head shot illo)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • Job Number:N-1020
Characters:
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. The noted science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer claims in a book that Tarzan is based on a real man, who he interviewed. Truth or fiction? At the bottom of the page is the answer for the word search puzzle.

Tarzan of the Apes
(Table of Contents: 12)

Table-Top Diorama / activity / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:jungle
  • Job Number:N-1021
Characters:
Tarzan

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The Return of Tarzan
    Tarzan
  2. [no title indexed]
    Tarzan
  3. The Return of Tarzan, Part 1: Trial by Treachery
    Tarzan
  4. ["Why is the proboscis monkey so-called and where does it live?"]
    Tarzan's Animal Facts
  5. Part 2: Fury in the Desert
    Tarzan
  6. Part 3: Back to the Primitive
    Tarzan
  7. [Pinup]
    Tarzan
  8. How to Draw Tarzan's Animals
    Tarzan
  9. Part 4: The City of Gold
    Tarzan
  10. [Word Puzzle]
    Tarzan's Word Puzzle
  11. Part 5: The Pit of Doom!
    Tarzan
  12. Is Tarzan Alive?
    Tarzan
  13. Tarzan of the Apes
    Table-Top Diorama
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