 The ORIGINAL TARZAN!
Tarzan of the Apes was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs (pictured left). One can't get any closer to the REAL secret origins of Tarzan than THIS: a page from that first-ever Tarzan story, written in Edgar Rice Burroughs' own hand.
This amazing artifact is pictured below! Check out the highlighted line, and you'll see that ERB originally christened his jungle character "Zantar," then "Tublat Zan," then, finally, the familiar "Tarzan"! | |
| The story's title page (below) shows that ERB submitted his work under the pseudonym "Normal Bean." But when the story was printed, a transcription error transformed Burroughs' pen name into "Norman Bean." |
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| And there you have it reader -- the REAL TRUE secret origin of Tarzan, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and published for the first time in "The All-Story Magazine," October of 1913 (cover below). |
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BONUS!
Tarzan montage by Burne Hogarth! |
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