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Camera-ready comic art drawing for Tarzan

National Museum of American History

Object Details

author
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
graphic artist
Celardo, John
publisher
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Tarzan comic strip shows Tarzan completing a mission and getting word of another call for help in the Akamba Village, where a fire has broken out and the tribe is battling against the addictive use of Zakara leaves—“the dream weed.”
John Celardo (1918-2012) started his career drawing for the Staten Island Zoo. After World War II he drew for comic books through various publishing houses. In the 1950s and 1960s Celardo drew the Tarzan comic strip, and in the late 1960s was given the Tales of the Green Beret. For two decades, starting in the 1970s, Celardo was the comic strip editor for King Features Syndicate. He also began drawing Buz Sawyer in the 1980s.
Tarzan (1929-1972) was a comic strip based on the popular title character, who first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Along with its film and comic book spin-offs, the story was also adapted as a comic strip, which premiered in 1929. The comic strip storyline closely followed that of the novel, showing British-born Tarzan surviving in the African jungle and being raised by apes. As in the novel, Tarzan grows up to meet and fall in love with a stranded American girl, Jane Porter.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
1966-08-28
ID Number
GA.22466
catalog number
22466
accession number
277502
Object Name
drawing
Object Type
Cartoon
Other Terms
drawing; Pen and Ink
Physical Description
ink (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 42.1 cm x 61 cm; 16 9/16 in x 24 in
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National Museum of American History
Record ID
nmah_797366
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-84d0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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