Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for April 09, 2023

“Blight” flight.

A plane? A flying saucer? No, look, it’s Tarzi in the talons of a big bird on his way directly to the moon…is this El cóndor NASA?

Just when you thinks things not get any weirder in Tarzan…

The flight of the condor or El Condor Pasa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXyMsWPiXbI

Where to begin…

How do you teach a bird to hate Tarzan? Have they been introduced or do you show him pictures?

Raised him from an egg? The feeding question gets awkward.

Condors, being scavengers, don’t usually carry prey. Let’s assume you taught him that while giving him the “Hate Tarzan” lessons. Tarzan weighs four or five times what any raptor could carry.

Ah, but this low-life creep has made this condor a giant (it doesn’t look like a giant – appears about the size of an Andean Condor), but this would need to be the size of a plane. And let’s not get into necessary size to strength ratios of muscle powered flight. How does a low-life poacher make a bird into a giant?

Tarzan: “Something like that happened to me in the sixth novel, though in a dream… where is my father’s knife?”

King Kong any Sunday from now.

Ho-hum. Another mashup of “At the Zoo” and “El Condor Pasa”.

Oh now wait a minute.

Tarzan looks absolutely delirious with delight in the first panel.

Seems like an overly elaborate way of bringing in Tarzan.

Ah, that Trumpian doppleganger…..always thinking of new ways to make people miserable, eh?

Tarzan makes a new friend.

Chapter One…..

Giant condor framed against the moon-lit sky of Gotham City! Is this what gave Bruce Wayne the idea for the Bat Signal?

Can we trust the giant condor to bring back Tarzan to face a rhino, or will it just finish him off along the way? How well can a giant condor be “trained”?