Thursday, June 28, 2018

Edgar Rice Burroughs Books




Read
(With and To Joe,   Solo)


          Not Yet Read

1 Minidoka 1903

2 A Princess of Mars 1911

The Outlaw of Torn 1911

4 Tarzan of the Apes 1911

5 The Gods of Mars 1912 

6 The Return of Tarzan 1912

7 At the Earth's Core 1913


8 The Cave Girl  1913


9 The Cave Man 1914


10 The Monster Men 1913

11 The Warlord of Mars 1913


12 The Mucker 1913

13 The Mad King 1913

14 The Eternal Savage / Lover 1913

15 The Beasts of Tarzan 1914

16 The Lad and the Lion 1914

17 The Girl from Farris's 1914

18 Thuvia, Maid of Mars 1914

19 Pellucidar 1914

20 The Son of Tarzan 1915


21 The Man-Eater 1915 

22 Beyond Thirty 1915

23 Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 1915 


24 The Rider 1915

25 The Return of the Mucker 1916 

26 Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1916


27  The Oakdale Affair 1917

28 The Land That Time Forgot 1918

29 The People That Time Forgot 1918

30 Out of Time’s Abyss 1918

31 Tarzan the Untamed 1918


32  The Moon Maid 1922


33 The Moon Men 1919

34 The Red Hawk 1925

35 The Efficiency Expert 1919

36 Tarzan the Terrible 1920

37 The Chessmen of Mars 1921


38 The Girl from Hollywood 1921

39 Tarzan and the Golden Lion 1922


40 Beware! / The Scientists Revolt 1922 

41 The Bandit of Hell's Bend 1923

42 Tarzan and the Ant Men 1923

43 Marcia of the Doorstep 1924

44 The Master Mind of Mars 1925


45 The War Chief 1926

46 The Tarzan Twins 1926

47 You Lucky Girl! 1927

48 Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 1927


49 Apache Devil 1927

50 Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad Bal Ja, the Golden Lion 1928

51 Tarzan and the Lost Empire 1928

52 Tanar of Pellucidar 1928

53 Tarzan at the Earth's Core 1928

54 A Fighting Man of Mars 1929


55 Jungle Girl / aka The Land of Hidden Men 1929

56 Tarzan the Invincible 1930


57 The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County 1930

58 Tarzan Triumphant 1931

59 Tarzan and the Leopard Men 1931


60 Pirates of Venus 1931

61 Tarzan and the City of Gold 1931

62 Lost On Venus 1932 

63 Tarzan and the Lion Man 1933

64 Swords of Mars 1933

65 Tarzan's Quest 1934

66 Back to the Stone Age 1935

67 Tarzan the Magnificent 1935


68 Carson of Venus 1937

69 Tarzan and the Forbidden City 1937

70 Synthetic Men of Mars 1938

71 Land of Terror 1938

72 Tarzan Clans of America Handbook 1939

73 Tarzan and the Madman 1940


74 Escape On Venus 1940   This was my last ERB book. Finished it 7/1/19.

75 Llana of Gathol 1940

76  Savage Pellucidar 1940

77 Beyond the Farthest Star 1940

78 Tarzan and the Castaways 1940


79 The Wizard of Venus / Pirate Blood 1941 


80  I Am a Barbarian 1941 

81 John Carter of Mars 1941

82 Tarzan and the Foreign Legion 1944

83 Tarzan and the Lost Adventure 1946

84 Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder



Also...

"The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (published separately, but most certainly not "a book" at a mere 30 pages) It was first printed in Argosy Weekly February 20, 1937 (Vol 271 #1).  Its only book appearance was in Tales of Three Planets (1964, 1974), though the original, pre-editorial intrusion version ("Elmer") appeared in Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder

Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Richard A. Lupoff 


Tarzan Forever by John Taliaferro Lots of information reference unpublished works...and published works which were never collected into book form.

Famous Authors: Edgar Rice Burroughs by KULTUR VIDEO, Directed by Malcolm Hossick 40 minute biography. Poorly done--starts, goes chronologically, then goes back and starts again. Also, the same pictures were shown two or more times. If they didn't have enough pictures to go around, surely they could have put in some video clips (of which there were almost none) of people talking about ERB or Tarzan or something. One interesting thing, though: there were quite a few pictures of drawings by ERB. If I have the patience to do it, I'd like to go back and screenshot each one of these. Can't share, of course, but I'd still like to have it for my own amusement / edification. Maybe show them to a friend or two if anybody's interested. But all in all--information poor, bad presentation, glad I was able to use my points to get it for free.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan Volumes I & II by Irwin Porges
A most excellent biography...far better than the Lupoff and Taliaferro books. Made me feel for ERB, who was pretty much trapped by his success (in that publishers were unwilling to let him write anything outside of what they considered to be his wheelhouse...which is why he wrote so many Tarzan books). Also made me long to read the uncollected and unpublished Burroughs works...of which there are one hell of a lot. Maybe someday? Probably not. But I can dream.

Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston, edited by Matt Cohen
Sometimes interesting collection of letters, but (1) an unbearable editor who (2) mistimes just about every one of his footnotes...some of which are extremely un-useful, and (3) a whole lot of tedious stuff in-between the interesting stuff. (I thought an editor did more than put things in order and write stupid footnotes, but I guess I was mistaken.) 

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds by Matt Betts
I have to admit that I was pretty jazzed when I saw a promo for this book...even though I'm not a big fan of "Fan Fiction," even if it is Professional Fan Fiction. But you know what...I tore through this book, really enjoyed it, and am ready, willing, and able to read more. This volume also included a related short story, "Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun" by Christopher Paul Carey which was okay-ish. Anyway, the experience of reading it was good enough that I decided to have a go at The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series. Going to start with the second book, though, since the first one isn't available on kindleunlimited, and I have a free trial for that which will get me through seven of the nine books in the series. 

Tarzan on the Precipice by Michael A. Sanford
This was the second book in The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series. (Free via a free trial of kindle unlimited, whereas the first book you had to buy, hence....) I would recommend that you skip this book, though. Some of ERB's later Tarzan novels were not good, but they are masterpieces compared to this novel. It's really just a light re-working of the same things you find in pretty much every Tarzan novel: a lost civilization, women who need rescuing, a group of apes who are friendly, then not, then there's a fight and Tarzan becomes their leader. It was nauseating. I am still going to try to read some more of the books in the series, but since the next two are also Tarzan books, I think I'm going to skip over to number 4. One thing keeps popping up in my brain: why on earth did the ERB people allow this awful book to be published? (It had their blessing.) I don't understand it.







Comic Books:

Pellucidar At The Earth's Core #1 (American Mythology)

Fear on Four Worlds #1: Carson of Venus (American Mythology)
Fear on Four Worlds #2: Moon Maid (American Mythology)
Fear on Four Worlds #3: Pellucidar (American Mythology)

Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond #1 (American Mythology)


          Sorry to say, but even though American Mythology continues to produce comic books    
          based on ERB stories, I had to give up on them. The combination of terrible, amateurish 
          art coupled with silly or even downright stupid stories was too much for me. 

Tarzan / Carson of Venus (Dark Horse)

Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earths Core (Dark Horse)

Carson of Venus by Len Wein and Michael Kaluta (DC)

The Greatest Adventure (Dynamite)







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