Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume 2, 1969-1971 by Russ ManningMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume 2, 1969-1971 collects five black and white stories (Korka's Story, The Magii of Pal-Ul-Don, Tarzan and the Stone Pharaoh, Tarzan and the Pashi Rochi, and Tarzan and the Cult of the Mahar) and five color stories (Tarzan and the Safari to Opar, How Tarzan Met Jane, Korak and the River of Time, Tarzan and the Slavers, and How Paul D'Arnot Met Tarzan), all written and drawn by Russ Manning.
My journey into the Tarzan newspaper strips continues with this volume. Tarzan returns to Paul-Ul-Don, fights a stone pharaoh in Egypt, slavers, assorted other douche bags, a psychic Pteranodon, two cults, beast men of Opar, and a race that syphons the lifespan of people to add to their own.
As with the last volume, these are nonstop adventure tales with fighting, lost cities, and more villains than you can shake a spear at. The stories play fast and loose with African geography but no one reads Tarzan looking for factual accuracy, I hope.
Once again, Russ Manning's art is the star of the show. The man is great at quiet scenes as well as fights above molten lava, beast men, lovely ladies, ancient ruins, and animals galore. Even the jungle foliage is well done, though in the intro, Manning said most of it came from his imagination since reference photos were hard to come by. His output was amazing considering how many panels he was knocking out in a week for the dailies and Sunday strips.
The Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips continue to have the bite of a beast man of Opar. 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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