
His shrewd business acumen and marketing blitzkrieg ensured that Tarzan burst upon the world in the form of novels, comic-strips, films and merchandise. This marks the dawn of a legend – Tarzan of the Apes.Įdgar Rice Burroughs was an American novelist who turned to fiction writing after an unsuccessful stint as a pencil sharpener salesman. The baby is adopted by a maternal she-ape who nurses him along with her own child. Lady Greystoke survives with her infant boy, but in a few months, she too succumbs to the perils of jungle life.


They find their way into the interior of the dense jungle that lines the coast and here, Lord Greystoke is killed by a predatory ape. An aristocratic English family is marooned off the coast of West Africa.
