Hal Foster Tarzan Sunday 7/10/1932 original comic art
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Hal Foster, Tarzan, 7/10/1932, Original Sunday Comic Strip
Harold R. Foster, Tarzan Sunday, 7/10/1932, "Through the Top of the Jungle", matted and framed. This might be the best Foster Tarzan original known to exist. It contains all the elements you want to see in a Tarzan Sunday page: action, adventure, apes and family. Tarzan gets away from the gorillas by diving into the water and swimming underwater. He escapes, but one of the apes has Tarzan's son Korak on a high cliff and throws him to the ground below. The last panel shows Tarzan saving his own son.
This is also the earliest Foster Tarzan complete page known to exist, and one of only a few from 1932. It is also one of only three known pages where Tarzan wears his over-the-shoulder leopard skin. On Sept. 25, 1932, Tarzan appears for the first time in the new abbrevriated outfit, to match Johnny Weissmuller's loin cloth in the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man.
If there is a better Hal Foster Tarzan in existence, I haven't seen it. This one has it all. The Tarzan pages of this period and the next year, 1933, were inspirational to young comic artists like Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Joe Kubert, Jack Kirby, and so many others. Foster wrote the book, and this original is page one of the book.
The piece has been professionally cleaned and mounted on archival board.
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