Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Carter, a Virginia gentleman, finds himself mysteriously transported from Civil War-era America to the planet Mars, where he plots, along with fellow prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely Princess of Thelium, to escape from his savage green captors. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

This third installment in the classic Pellucidar series returns to the exotic and savage land at the center of the Earth. Led by the American explorer David Innes, the human communities have finally overthrown Pellucidar's slave masters, the dreaded Mahars. The peace, however, is temporary, and the Pellucidarian Empire is faced with a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. In the ensuing battle many warriors are lost and one of the most courageous, Tanar of Sari, is captured. Tanar's captors take him to the horrifying realm of the Buried People of Amiocap and ultimately to the Korsars' dreaded dungeons. He endures these terrors because he knows he must escape. He must return to the empire at all costs and alert the people of the newly won empire of the tragedy that has befallen them—David Innes has been captured by the Korsars. Paul Cook provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Continuing the saga of Pellucidar, the empire located in the Earth's hollow center, Tarzan at the Earth's Core is the fourth work in this classic series. The American explorer and emperor of Pellucidar, David Innes, has been captured by the deadly Korsar pirates. Picking up on the desperate cries for help emanating from Pellucidar, Jason Gridley of Tarzana brings the message to the only person who can help, Tarzan of the Apes. Together young Gridley and Lord Greystoke travel to the exotic and strange realm within the Earth to save the imprisoned ruler. Unaccustomed to the difficulties of Pellucidar, the two struggle in its savage environment, with its eternal noon and bizarre monsters, in their quest to save Innes and the precarious rule he has established. Sean McMullen provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the jungle and are imprisoned by cannibals, from whom they escape. They are then reunited with their host, who introduces them to his pet lion, Jad-bal-ja. Subsequently, they become involved in an adventure involving exiles from the lost city of Opar, who have kidnapped Gretchen von Harben, the daughter of a missionary. The Tarzan Twins, like all well-behaved twins, were born on the same day and, although they were not as "alike as two peas," still they resembled one another quite closely enough to fulfill that particular requirement of twinship; but even there they commenced breaking the rules that have been governing twins during the past several millions of years, for Dick had a shock of the blackest sort of black hair, while Doc's hair was the sunny hue of molasses candy. Their noses were alike, their blue eyes were alike; alike were their chins and their mouths. Perhaps Doc's eyes twinkled more and his mouth smiled more than Dick's for Dick did much of his twinkling and smiling inside and inside the boys were very much alike, indeed. It is simply staggering to discover what a boy can accomplish if he makes up his mind to it and so it was not long before Dick and Doc did excel in nearly all athletic sports and when it came to climbing trees -- well, Tarzan himself would have had no reason to be ashamed of them. Though their scholastic standing may have suffered a little in the following months of athletic effort, their muscles did not, and as vacation time approached, Dick and Doc had become as hard as nails and as active as a couple of manus, which you will know, if your education has not been neglected, is the ape-word for monkeys. Then it was that the big surprise came in a letter that Dick received from his mother. Tarzan of the Apes had invited them all to visit him and spend two months on his great African estate The boys were so excited that they talked until three o'clock the next morning and flunked in all their classes that day.

Apinoiden kuninkaan voitonhuuto kaikuu jälleen mustan Afrikan uumenissa... Russ Manningin Tarzan on toteutukseltaan äärimmäisen toimivaa ja nautittavaa seikkailusarjakuvaa, jossa on puhtaat ja selkeät linjat sekä dynaamiset sivukokonaisuudet. Manning oivalsi Burroughsin luoman sankarihahmon mahdollisuudet ja loi laajan yleissivistyksensä avulla vauhdikkaita ja mielikuvituksellisia tarinoita. Viidakon valtias seikkailee viidakoissa, kadonneissa maailmoissa, maan uumenissa, kohtaa outoja olentoja ja kamppailee hengestään vertahyytävien hirviöiden kanssa. Manningin Tarzan on ollut suosittu nimenomaan Euroopassa, missä hänen näkemystään pidetään aitona ja alkuperäisenä. Hänen varmaotteiset, leveät linjansa ja yksityiskohtaiset taustansa ovat suoraa jatkoa Hal Fosterin, vaikuttajan ja oppi-isän, tekniikalle. Toisin kuin Burne Hogartin Tarzan-seikkailut, joissa loistelias grafiikka ja äärimmäisen yksityiskohtainen toteutus kätkivät usein alleen huteran ja kömpelön juonen, Manningin sarjakuvat ovat kiinteitä kokonaisuuksia. Tarinat ovat värikkäitä mielikuvituksen purkauksia, jotka on toteutettu kurinalaisesti ja ammattitaitoisesti. Russ Manning (1929-1981) on Burne Hogartin ja Hal Fosterin ohella tunnetuin ja arvostetuin Tarzan-piirtäjä. Ensimmäisen Tarzan-sarjakuvansa Manning piirsi vuonna 1952 ja Western-kustannus julkaisi sen kaksi vuotta myöhemmin. Samoin kuin Hogart ja Foster ennen häntä, myös Manning alkoi tehdä itse käsikirjoituksia. Hänestä tuli nopeasti yksi alan taitavimmista ja monipuolisimmista tekijöistä. Manning piirsi Tarzania aina vuoteen 1979 asti. Suomessa Manningin Tarzaneita on julkaistu vuosina 1967-1979 kuukausittain ilmestyneessä Tarzan-lehdessä.