Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 07, 2013
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enjoy this classic tom the dancing bug every thursday panels from the annals of the tom the dancing bug archive check back every friday for a fresh, brand new tom the dancing bug! tom the dancing bug by ruben bolling a line of explorers slashes its way through a dense african jungle... as the come to a small clearing, the leader, professor tibbins, suddenly stops. tibbins: good lord... oop: what is it, professor? oop: look closely at that troop of apes feeding. tibbins: one of them appears to be a half-naked feral... man! assistant: y-you're right! oop: professor, could it be... that he was orphaned as a baby in this fierce and brutal land -- and raised by these apes as their own? tibbins: perhaps, coleman. but observe how he clings to the back of that ape. i must get a closer look! follow me around this tree! as i thought! look in this magnifying glass! assistant: next to him, on the ape's hide: bugs! tibbins: precisely! this man was raised since a babe not by apes... but by ape-lice!! zan-tarr king of the ape lice next to civilize the parasitic heart!
So Edgar Rice Burroughs had it wrong all along?