My dad took us to a huge book store in Boston back in 1959. I bought the first Tarzan book that day. I was eleven. The movies were big in those days on our black and white television. I read all of them by the time I left the house at sixteen. Really good writer who dictated all his books to his secretary who typed them all up for him to submit. I added all of ERB’s titles to my Kindle library this past December and read the Tarzan titles in Dec-January. I’ll get to the Venus and Mars titles in March.
That was a great overview. Edgar Rice Burroughs is an author that I've only sampled a bit through the years, but this kind of video makes me want to go through and read more of them. Tarzan of the Apes was a great book, and deserves its gigantic reputation.
This really takes me back to elementary school! Tarzan of the Apes was the first book I read in third grade when my mom talked the librarian into letting me check out whatever books I wanted. I just couldn't put it down. I've loved Burroughs ever since. :) Love your channel!
“Tarzania, CA”, Nation-wide Newspapers’ Comic Strips (multiple decades), All Star, Dell, Gold Key, DC, Marvel, et. al. Comic Books-all featured the adventures of Tarzan over the past Century! An Iconic Character brought to life in the 1984 film “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes!” Kudos to the prolific and “out-of-this-World” imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs! Excellent overview of his many works!
This was great, Mike! Awesome overview. This is actually probably one of my favorite videos that you’ve done, because I’ve been anxious to get into some Burroughs, so this was perfect. I actually saw a bunch of these old paperbacks in a used book store recently, but they were 10 bucks a pop, and I didn’t feel like dropping that much cash that day, but I’ll grab some soon. Thanks!
Yesterday I finished Princes of Mars. I got a copy in English from Project Gutenberg and a copy in Spanish from Freeditorial. Thanks to your recommendation. I'm looking forward to reed more of ERB's work. Greetings from Tabasco Mexico.
Well done on the presentation, Mike! I myself have read books 1--6, 10, & 21 of the Tarzan series. Quite original. Speaking of Pellucidar, I've also read At The Earth's Core, and saw the movie when was 9, in 1976. Once I read the novel, I began to understand the film a little better. I have a hardcover copy at home, which is a movie tie--in, with stills from the film. One guy I spoke to said that ERB was too macho. I disagree, and I think that Burroughs was a product of his time. Don't you think so? Thanks for a great video! 😁💙📚👍
Is that you on the thumbnail MKV? 😉 Enjoyed learning about all of these books. I’ve never read any Edgar Rice Burroughs and basically only know about Tarzan. Thanks for a great video. 😊💙
Tarzan and the ant men was the last one of my 24 book collection, took 7yrs to find them all. Seems like different years of print had different covers. I even have ERB westerns
Insta subscribed to this channel worth a pot of gold sir! Your expertise is just out of this world sir and your tastes align to mine in perfection and I shall explore this channel to oblivion! I thank you fellow adventurer!
Just start my morning with 4 book box by Michael Moorcock ELRIC with Blondel artist just stunning art and Bought box a while ago When saw you present Edgar Rice Burroughs so are jump not to long If think about it Elric are Caractere easy could been done with him ✌️🙏 Love Tarzan ❤️🇪🇺🇸🇪
Great video! =) I've read about half of Burroughs' books so far and I'll try to read all of them eventually. He wrote a lot - as demonstrated by this video - and I advice readers not to read too many of them at a time because as fun as they are (if you like pulp adventures), they are extremely iterative! ;-)
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 That's because you, sir, are an utter madman! :D I'm looking forward to more videos about ERB and other pulps! =) Thanks to this video I jumped on completing my ERB read-through right away. I'm reading "A Fighting Man of Mars" right now! ;-)
Tarzan at the Earth's Core... vs the Predator... yeah, I remember that 90s Dark Horse Comic! 😏 Isn't there an 70s movie about the Center of the Earth based on that book? About comics, I know it's not the same as the books, which I never read, but I decided to buy the Dynamite comics of John Carter & Dejah Thoris, even though it's A LOT. The setting is quite interesting. I also like the movie, very underrated, one of the few not silly movies from Disney nowadays.
I have a question for you. I am a longtime fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I thought I read all of his novels several times but see from your videos that a missed a bunch. I did read all the Tarzan, Mars, Venus, Pelucidar novels a few times. My question has to do with my daughter. When she was born I named her Jana, after Jana the Red Rose of Thoram, which I remember as coming from one of Burroughs novels. Jana, my daughter, was born May 20, 1962; so she just turned 60 and it has been a long time since I reread Burroughs and probably won't again. Do you recall where the Jana the red rose of Thoram (not sure about the spelling of Thoram) came from? Thanks. I always enjoy your videos and have set myself projects like yours over the years. The most recent was to read all of John Sandford's Prey series which I just recently finished -- only about 32 so it doesn't match Burroughs 80, but Sandford would come close if I read his other novels. I did read three of his Virgil Flowers novels but bogged down and went on to someone else.
What an amazing collection you have !! My Tarzan tribute vid (Tarzan's a swinger) did ok...so Tarzan is still hip... Those books look so good, i gotta say. Great vid. Thanks MV. Gonna read some more ERB's!!
Terrific overview. I must read some Burroughs. I think I'm most interested in the Apache novels, The Mucker and I am a Barbarian now, after seeing this review. I wish there was some non-fiction of his war experience, seems it doesnt exist.
I am really glad to have found your channel. Found it per coincidence, bcs like you, i am a huge Fan of Conan. You brought me to Bran Mac Mork and Kull and the other Howard stuff, and now i do watch most of the videos you posted over the years. You gave me much fun stuff that i currently read, and much more for the future. One question, if you allow, good sir: have you ever read Ian Fleming? I found a James Bond omnibus online, but that are 2500 and then some pages, so i delay that for later.... Greatings to you from Vienna, Austria, here in good old europe.
Didn`t realise he had written so much, did he never sleep? I listened to `Jungle tales of Tarzan` which I liked esp the story where he has the hots for a female gorilla and comes to realise how different they are, quite sad really.
I've only read "at earth's core" (that edition) but was pretty attracted to the aesthetic of pure adventure - & I love a good lost world - though even in that one novelette I felt the repetition. Another chapter, another savage encounter - but those pterodactyl overlords were creepy as &^@%. I'd like to return there, or any of his worlds, but physical copies with that sweet cover art i prefer are rare and often expensive. I have a omnibus of the first 3 mars books - albeit with a boring cover that looks like NASA's mars (they're hiding all those civilizations from us of course!) - and the first Tarzan, so I might as well try those, and make sure it's my cup of tea before collecting whole sets - especially since you say the freshness wanes. Maybe I can stand a e-book or a librivox version if I get hooked.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 True enough, it's just that collector mentality of mine, and how I much prefer holding, and smelling a book, especially a nice cheep paperback from the 50s. 🧐👃🤯 Vintage pulp!
more so than lovecraft, howard, even the MCU. we have the initials that strike wonder and joy in the hearts of fantastic stories. ERB. the fan world is called ERBdom. now, i have not read him, cause im incredibly lazy and pretentious, but i remember how ERB was praise in the 70s in the world of comics and other fan realms. the shadow over all of this.
Jungle Girl is interesting for having a romance between the white hero and an unambiguous brown Cambodian woman and neither invoking the tragic romance cliche, nor inexplicably giving her light features as most other pulp adventure writers of the time would have.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 Logic might suggest so, but racism in that era, and therefor support for anti-miscegenation laws, was tied deeply to eugenics and beliefs in a racial hierarchy in which superior peoples were lessened by mixing with inferior peoples. Easy enough to imagine a non-existent race and de-problematize the relation by saying they are equal with Europeans on the hierarchy, all while leaving the real hierarchy intact. The Barsoom romance was no doubt seen as distasteful by some but it wasn't terribly subversive. The device of interspecies over interracial romances in pulp was, I think, a concession to racial attitudes, reflecting a desire to explore fantasies of exotic liaisons without challenging beliefs about any real peoples believed to be inferior. All of which is to say that a story like Jungle Girl was indeed a fair bit spicier for doing just that.
Did Burroughs write "The Oakdale Affair" or some book very similiar to that title? Also I believe there was "The Return of the Mucker". I love Burroughs. Thanks so much for this video.
Ah, okay, Michael, okay ... Now what about it? Do you know that I have always snubbed Burroughs stuff and now I have here an Easton Press Tarzan volume sitting on my desk and that John Carter just right behind your back coming my way? (a copy, not that very book!); and you know that it is entirely your fault? ; )
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 That's okay. I dont want to sound like l was complaining. I grew up reading the Burroughs books too. Mostly the Pellucidar ones, though.
I've come to realize several reasons y the movie failed: 1 simple thing could have doubled it's grosses call it "A Princess of Mars" y? In all the ads in no way does it appeal to women. It's as much love story as sci-fi. But nobody knew!
Yeah, I remember at the time that they didn’t want to put Mars in the title because some other Mars movie was a failure. It was ridiculous and you are right. It should have been A Princess of Mars.
My older brother used to read all the Herby books. So father would make funny names about adventures of Herby. The best was "Herby Takes A 💩 In Monticarlo". So I think Edward Rice Burroughs could have made " Tarzan Takes a 💩 In The Jungle"
I'm usually pretty good at filtering out the casual racism of older times as a simple product of those times, but in reading Tarzan of the Apes last year, the character of Esmeralda kind of stopped me cold. Wow, there's some stuff there. Curious if you're aware of the fancy new hardcovers the Burroughs Society has been putting out for the Tarzan series? Feels like something you'd need on your shelves... Cheers!
Cool video as I have also enjoyed reading Tarzan. You didn't mentioned Tarzan -- the Lost Adventure which was published by Dark Horse Comics in a four issue series back with information about it at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan:_The_Lost_Adventure as I enjoyed when it came out as I am also a fan of his AT THE EARTH'S CORE books which I read prior to reading Tarzan books in my days in High School.
