Download Tarzan In The City of Gold Vol 1 The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library Burne Hogarth 9781781163177 Books

Product details Series Tarzan Hardcover 208 pages Publisher Titan Books (May 13, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 1781163170

Tarzan In The City of Gold Vol 1 The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library Burne Hogarth 9781781163177 Books Reviews

• Burne Hogarth was the greatest cartoonist of his time (the depression), and he bought to comics a new way of looking at the art form. With much more detail and richness to his art he produced some of the best Tarzan comic strips out there.
  This book covers the first five stories from May 1937 to April 1940. They are Tarzan in the City of Gold, Tarzan and the Boers Parts one and two, Tarzan and the Chinese, Tarzan and the Pygmies and Tarzan and the s. Plus the story of Mr. Hogarth and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the story of Hal Forest's Tarzan in the City of Gold.
  Relive the days o f long gone when Tarzan graced the pages of the papers and we were treated to the visual concept of Tarzan's adventures across Africa.
  Any Tarzan or Burne Hogarth fan should add this edition to their collection as it is a rich collection of newspaper comic strips, and I gave it five stars as it is great to be able to read the strips again. Grab a copy of this 167 page book and compare Mr. Hogarth's art with any other artist and see for yourself the detail he put into his work.
• Titan Books has finally released this first volume of the Burne Hogarth run on the Ape Man.
  
  This book is much more than what I expected. As in the Flash Gordon reprints by TB, the cream colored paper stock and the excellent restoration (without recoloring) makes this a real treat for Tarzan fans. The size is just right, not too big and certainly not small at all; which makes it very easy to handle and flip through the pages. The binding looks very sound and I am positive it will stand my use and abuse. Going over the stories, one can appreciate how Hogarth's art evolved through the years; a trend we'll see also in further volumes of this series. I already pre-ordered volume 2 and simply cannot wait to see all four volumes of Hogarth's Tarzan on my bookshelf. I absolutely recommend this book to anyone wanting to add Hogarth's Tarzan to his collection. Buy with confidence, you won't be disappointed.
  
  Thanks Titan and keep it coming!
• Love to have so many stories from Hogarth in one volume. This is early Hogarth and that can be seen by the quality of his drawings. He became much better later on, as an artist should become. The colors are not bright, but probably as they have been in the newspapers.
  
  Would have been better with a recoloring. Though I love to be able to sit and have so much of Hogarth at hand to enjoy with a cup of tea.
  
  Though I must say that was quite disapointing this time! The package that the quite heavy book was protected by was in a bad shape on arrival. The sealing on the front side was almost torn open, only the information and address labels holding it closed.
  
  Worse - the book had got a serious hit on the left upper corner, crushing it, and a minor hit on the lover left. But that is NO surprise, since the book had NO corner protection! Only 2 pieces of plastic bags, wich normaly are filled with air in the pockets - but several air pockets were deflated!
  If I return this item for a new one it will cost me half the book. So maybe I will not.
• Beautiful, mostly-crisp, high-quality compilation of Sunday comic strips, drawn by a genius who eventually became an absolute master of the medium. Don't expect incredibly sophisticated stories, but expect vibrant colors and beautiful draftsmanship. Some of the strips appear a tad faded - not sure if this is because of the quality of the source material, or because of a problem with reproduction. I am nonetheless very pleased with this book; I simply cannot wait for the next editions.
• THIS BOOK HAS A DIFFERENT COVER BECAUSE IN VOL, 2 IT IS ADVERTISED WITH A VERY DIFFERENT AND BETTER COVER THAN IS SHOWN HERE ON VOL.1 WHY HAS THIS VOL GOT THIS COVER AND NOT THE ONE ADVERTISED HERE? I WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW ALL THE OTHER VOLUMES HAVE GREAT COVERS WHAT WENT WRONG.
• Right now IDW is producing a lovely collection of all the Russ Manning Tarzan comics from the 60's and 70's so now fans can get a competing take on the Ape Man from Titan Books. In this case we go all the way back to 1937 when Burne Hogarth took over from Hal Foster who had left to concentrate on Prince Valiant. Although separated by over 30 years I don't think it would be inappropriate to compare the two artists and the presentations done by Titan and IDW.
  
  My only previous experience with Titan was the Flash Gordon series by artist Alex Raymond. Great art, great presentation, terrible writing. This book reminds me a lot of what I saw with Flash Gordon. In both cases the books showcased the artist but the artists were not the writer. The writer here is Don Garden. In both cases the comics are told in the third person which I am not much of a fan of. I don't mind the occasional box of text but this is all third person. I don't think Don Garden is going to win any awards for inventiveness but he's a darn site better than Don Moore who wrote Flash Gordon. Hogarth doesn't have quite the skills of Alex Raymond but the art is quite good and Hogarth was very skilled at drawing animals and jungle backgrounds so he is definitely in his element here. Russ Manning was a more precise and consistent artist than Hogarth but precision isn't always right for Tarzan. I might argue that Manning's Tarzan looked TOO good particularly with his perfectly quaffed hair. On the other hand Manning was better than Hogarth at drawing Tarzan's lithe physique and movement through the jungle.
  
  I assumed that since this was Tarzan in the City of Gold that it was based on the book but the book is called Tarzan AND the City of Gold and it is a completely separate story. In fact we only get half the story since Hogarth took over artist duties half way through and Titan didn't include the Foster portion. Not only is the story different from the book but Tarzan has a trained Lion friend named Lethor while in the novels the lion is named Jad-bal-ja. My one big issue with the Russ Manning stories was his usage of the more fantasy elements of Tarzan including a story where he appears to travel back in time. He also used Tarzan's son Korak a great deal which I consider a shame because I am no fan of the Korak character. Don Garden sticks to what I like most about Tarzan setting him in a realistic environment and having him communicate and enlist aid from the creatures of Africa. The downside here is the stories are just paper thin. So on the one hand we have Manning who was a better story teller but used elements I don't like and on the other we have Garden who writes very shallow stories but sticks to the elements I enjoy. For me it's a tossup as to who I prefer.
  
  I assume the images here are smaller than the original size but the book is still pretty big at nearly 13 inches in height. A little too large to curl up with in bed which is a shame. The product description says Sunday's and dailies but these all look like Sunday comics to me. All the comics are in color with 10 to 12 frames per day. In this case I don't mind that the images are probably shrunken since the last thing I need is a book the dimensions of a newspaper page. I already went through that once with DC's Wednesday Comics. I've considered Fantagraphics and IDW to be the big guns when it comes presenting classic comics but Titan is doing some good work too. My disappointment with Flash Gordon had nothing to do with the presentation by Titan Books. These aren't the greatest Tarzan stories ever told but they have a neat classic feel to them and I don't regret getting the book.