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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan – The Lost Adventure                    Limited Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
Signed & Numbered – Limited to 1000
Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Adapted and expanded by: Joe R. Lansdale
Artists: Thomas Yeates, Charles Vess, Gary Gianni & Michael W. Kaluta
Editor: Peet Janes
Cover by: Dean Williams

This Hardcover edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies and is signed by Danton Burroughs (ERBs grandson and executor of his estate) and with ERBs original signature stamp.Nearly fifty years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ final Tarzan manuscript was locked in a vault, unfinished, never to be read by anyone outside the family. It became the stuff of legend. Now, half a century later, in 1995, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan: The Lost Adventure enjoyed its Dark Horse debut as a series of four pulp-magazine format books. In honor of Burroughs’ first Tarzan stories, this, long-lost masterpiece is presented in the same format in which the very first Tarzan story saw print: As a pulp! The four-issue series interweaves the text, as faithfully revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale, with detailed black-and-white illustrations. Thomas Yeates had provided the artwork for this first issue, while Charles Vess, Gary Gianni, and Michael W. Kaluta respectively illustrated issues 2-4, each to be housed under a gorgeous painted cover by Arthur Suydam. Now, one year later, the story has been collected and reformatted into an illustrated prose novel, in the classic tradition of those prized Tarzan first editions. The tale- completed by famed horror writer Joe R. Lansdale – is wrapped in a dust jacket featuring painted cover art by Disney artist Dean Williams. The book is illustrated throughout by such legends as Thomas Yeates, Charles Vess, Gary Gianni, and Michael Kaluta, and includes a reproduction of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ personal bookplate, designed by Burroughs’ nephew, Studley O. Burroughs.

Dark Horse Comics is proud to present Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan: The Lost Adventure. In this never-before-printed novel (serialized over four issues).

Story/Spoilers
In book #1, Tarzan guides an explorer and his beautiful daughter to a remote, mythical African city, and contends with an outlaw safari which hopes to reach the same destination… first. Tarzan’s battles with jungle beasts and a brutal sequence in a tribal village are vintage Burroughs at his best! A scientist searches for a lost city that may hold clues about early man, but a crew of outlaws are on the same path, and they smell gold!

Next in book #2, Tarzan has been left behind by the outlaw safari, tied to a tree, and left to face the fury of Gorgo the buffalo. Resigned to his fate, Tarzan fails to see the lithe, stalking form of his friend, Jad-bal-ja, the golden lion… Tarzan goes after his captors and would-be murders, but he may have trouble reaching them before the ruthless criminals find the Hanson expedition, for not only is Tarzan saddled with the care of a hopelessly lost city-goer, but Usha the wind has arrived, and the whole jungle will cower under the mighty cyclone!

Next in book #3, Tarzan leads the Hanson expedition onward to the lost city of Ur, but a safari of desperate outlaws is hot on their heels and they’re not there to take pictures! Jean Hanson is taken to the lost city of Ur, where she finds that beneath the patina of gold there lies barbarism, bourns of the worship of a monstrous being. Meanwhile, Hunt, trapped in a maze of underground caverns, feels the gaze of a silent stalker, and while Tarzan manages to unite the other members of the Hanson expedition, he cannot save one man from the clutching hand of death!

Finally in book #4, It’s the final confrontation between a dangerously determined group of outlaws and the king of the jungle… a titan clash of wills that resounds through the jungle. The prize is not only a lost city of gold, but life itself! In the explosive conclusion to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ lost masterpiece, while the Hanson expedition overcomes the vicious band of outlaws, Tarzan finds himself captive in the city of Ur! He’s destined for the blood-soaked arena, and a deadly confrontation with a beast from the depths of the Earth!

Features “Tarzan” illustrations by Thomas Yeates, Charles Vess, Gary Gianni, & Michael Wm. Kaluta! Awesome!!

Hardcover reprints: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan – The Lost Adventure (1995) Issues #1-4.  Dark Horse Comics

Limited Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is bagged and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

Limited to 1000
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Publication Date: December 1995
Format: B&W, 216 pages, HC, 9.5″ x 6.75″
ISBN-10: 1569711283
ISBN-13: 9781569711286

Collectible Entertainment note: Limited Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Tarzan and/or Edgar Rice Burroughs and/or Rare Hardcover collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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