Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for August 22, 2020

From one jewel to another…

You may ask why she’s their queen; it’s because only she can get things down off the top shelf due to her mutant ability of being tall.

Once again the language barrier played havoc with the three visitors understanding of the situation, as the pygmies began their morning yoga session.

Looks like Tarzan is escaping this boobie trap. It’s off to a new adventure in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. Sorry got carried away!

So now they’re all faithful to their queen, huh? Just a minute ago, they were about to spear her along with her friends just because some stranger who held their so called blood ruby said so. You sure you still want to hang around these imbeciles, Queenie?

Publisher to Artist: What? I refuse to pay you for each pygmy you draw.

And so, the Kulpable Kulprit escapes into the jeopardous jungle, only to be terribly trampled to a palpable pulp by a terrible tusker.

So where’s all the dead pygmies?

I wonder if we’ve seen the last of cackling Kulp or if he’ll turn up in a future adventure.

Maybe now Tarzan will pull out that letter he stuffed into his shorts on Jun 16,17 . Tawi must be the dead man’s daughter raised by the pygmies for 20 years.

I never knew that Wisely was Tarzan’s last name.

Maybe Kulp will fall into one of Tarzan’s famous pit traps. So now the little pygmies bow before their queen who actually did nothing except threaten Tarzan in this lame tale. Biggim’s monkey-looks are diminishing each day and by story’s end he will probably appear almost normal. Please get the heck out of pygmy-land and begin a new and more exciting story……how’s about bringing back…….Betty Cole!

One pygmy turns to the others. “No more jewel. Looks like we’re stuck with her. All right, everybody genuflect!”

From P1 to P2 it appears Biggim has given up women, and is now Tarzan’s new love slave.

Tarzan is looking a little down in panel 2. He’s thinking, man, I didn’t do so good in this story.