Tarzan pulls on the tail of a sable lion that has chased a native into a cave.  The lion chases Tarzan.  The lion miss times a jump over a gorge and is knocked unconscious.  Tarzan captures the lion and trains it to obey him.  They meet Buto Matari on a bridge.  A fight ensues, which results in Tarzan and Buto becoming friends.  At Buto’s village, they discover the village burned and some of Buto’s people have been captured as well as Jane and Boy.  Tarzan, the Sable Lion, and Buto go to Sheik Abou Ben Ephraim’s camp.  They rescue the natives, Jane, and Boy.  They take the Sheik’s treasure to rebuild the village.  On the way home the Sable lion leaves them.  Later, they find the lion with its mate and cub.  End. 

 The scene of Buto and Tarzan on the log bridge is reminiscent of the famous scene with Robin Hood and Little John. 

Tarzan discovers Kolo, a native, who is frustrated, because he can’t afford the price M’dongo demands for the hand of his daughter, Leelah.  Tarzan brings M’dongo a sack of jewels for Leelah’s release.  Tarzan uses deception to get Leelah out of the village.  The ape-man saves Kolo and Leelah from a lion and a leopard.  Sheik Ibrahim and his slavers capture Kolo and Leelah.  Tarzan rescues them from the small boat that is heading for an Arab dhow.  A shark kills the slavers.  Tarzan kills the shark.  Tarzan frees the slaves from the dhow.  He establishes a new community for them on an island in a mangrove swamp.  Tarzan has to defeat the island’s mangani gund.  He forces the mangani to live in peace with the Gomangani.  End. 

 The island, with mangani on it, is slightly reminiscent of the island in “The Beast of Tarzan.” 

 The first story, ‘The Knight of Lyonesse,’ is a new story that has some strong influences from “Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.”  Both are based on the premise that a one of Richard the Lion-Hearted’s ships wretched near the coast of Africa, and the survivors founded a colony in a valley, Valley of Carmel (Dell #13)/Valley of the Sepulcher (LJ).

 Tarzan tells Hannibal J. Belmore, a hunter of great apes, to leave the area.  Hannibal knocks out Tarzan and ties him up with copper wire.  Chaga, a great ape, carries Tarzan to an ape tribe.  Jad-bal-ja joins them.  Tarzan uses an outcropping of flint to cut through his bonds.  Tarzan and Jad-bal-ja track the hunter who has captured two ape balus.  From a tree, Tarzan ropes Belmore out of his riverboat.   He frees the balus.  Tarzan uses Tantor, Jad-bal-ja and the apes to herd Belmore to a French military post.  End.

While flying to the Valley of the Monsters, Tarzan, d’Arnot, and Boy are force to land near an unknown city on a mountaintop because their engine has overheated.  Roman soldiers take them to Imperator, Brutus Augustus.  An insult sends Tarzan and d’Arnot to the dungeons and Boy to become a personal slave of Flavia, Brutus’ cousin.  In prison, they meet Marcus Junius, the rightful ruler. Tarzan makes friends with Gorak, the old man baboon.  In the arena, the baboons refuse to fight with Tarzan and the other slaves.  Brutus sends in lions.  Tarzan organizes a defense.  A solar eclipse panics the crowd.  In the confusion Tarzan, the slaves, and the baboons escape.  Out of the city, they organize warriors and escaped slaves to restore Marcus to power.  The Romans trundle the plane up onto the city’s wall.  Tarzan defeats Urchak, a gund of a great ape tribe.  Tarzan and Urchak sneak into the city.  Flavia leads Tarzan to Brutus’ quarters.  They capture the Imperator and use the plane to fly him back to Marcus.  Marcus’ army marches on the city.  He is restored to power.  The clogged oil line in the plane is repaired.  Tarzan, d’Arnot and Boy fly home.  End.

“Tarzan and The Lost Legion,” is a new story, which has strong influences from “Tarzan and the Lost Empire.” 

Tarzan watches a plane make an emergency landing.  The two occupants, Phil and Emma, are captured by Budango, a cannibal chief, and his men.  Budango forces Phil to teach him how to fly the plane.  Meanwhile Tarzan rescues Emma.  The chief leaves to solo in the plane.  Tarzan rescues Phil.  The Jungle Lord climbs into the plane as it takes off.  The engine stalls.  Budango panics and leaps to his death.  Tarzan buzzes the cannibals, who flee.  Tarzan returns the plane to Phil and Emma.  End.

Tarzan takes Tantor to the Mountain of Opar.  He catches the scent of the Dwarfs of Opar and goes to investigate.  They rescue La, who is being held for allowing Tarzan and Sir Hal to escape (Dell #13.1).  They take La to Pal-ul-don.  A cave man on a mammoth knocks out Tarzan and captures La.  Tarzan and Tantor track Aroc, the cave man, to the Valley of the Caves.  Tarzan fights Bundroc, the chief of the cave men.  Bundroc falls off a cliff.  The cave people want to make Tarzan their chief.  He appoints La to rule in his place.  La picks up Aroc’s club and sits in the queen’s chair.  This means she has chosen Aroc as a mate.  The People of Caves celebrate the union.  Tarzan returns to find Tantor.  End.

Om-at tells Tarzan that gangsters have taken over A-lur and are holding Prince Ta-den prisoner. Tarzan’s rescue attempt goes awry. The gangsters head for a stockade where their plane is. The men of Kor-ul-ja arrive on gryfs. With Tarzan, they attack the stockade with the gryfs. The gangsters make for their plane. A gryf’s tail strikes the wing of the plane. The gangsters crash into the lake and drown. Om-at, Tarzan, and Boy ride a gryf back to Tarzan’s hidden airplane. The lake dwellers have discovered the bodies of two young tyrannosaurs choked to death on prickly fish. They uncover their plane and fly home. End.

In the desert of rocks Tarzan has his water skin ripped open by a thorn brush. Tarzan ropes and breaks a Giant Eland. He rides it to a water hole. The eland kills Sheeta with its horns. They happen upon a crowd of natives. T’gamai, a witch doctor, chooses N’keeta to be a sacrifice to the lion god, Barumba. She fights as they bring her to the lion. Tarzan leaps over the wall on the eland and spears the old, blind lion. He brings her home to meet Lady Jane and Boy. End.

Barumba, the old and blind lion god is reminiscent of Thoos, the mangy old lion god of Cathne in “Tarzan and the City of Gold.”

The Arabs leave believing starvation will drive Tarzan mad as the others. Tarzan convinces El Raschid, the leader of the loonies, to form a human ladder to escape. 

Tarzan rides the antelope to the town of the Sheik. He spies the Sheik displaying two white pygmy captives, Princess Ila and Tado. Tarzan rescues them. Princess Ila relates the tale of how Urkat poisoned the crowned prince, imprisoned her husband, Prince Alet, and turned her and Tado out into the terrible desert. Tarzan takes them to the safety of Muviro’s village. 

Tarzan captures Abou Ben Ephraim and throws him in the pit. Tarzan prepares to return the Princess and her son to Ilona. End.

Tarzan tells his friend Lieutenant Tourneau that he will help him catch a band of Shiftas. Tourneau has quarreled with his fiancee, Rita Lane.

Following the cutthroats’ trail Tarzan crosses paths with the People of the Rocks led by their king, Zugash. Sheeta threatens a young baboon. Tarzan kills it with his knife. N’kima rushes to Tarzan with news of Gomangani following a white woman’s safari. Tarzan arrives in time to save Rita Lane from a fate worse than death, but the Shiftas carry her away. 

The bandits head for their hiding place on an old volcanic caldera. Tarzan uses Zugash and the People of the Rocks to help him rescue Rita and capture the Shiftas. Tarzan brings Rita and the Shiftas to Lt. Tourneau. End.

This story has a very remote connection to “Tarzan Triumphant.” 

Tarzan and Thulak, king of a gray ape tribe, find a red gem stone necklace and a dying Roger Mackrey who tells how his sister, Leda, and he were captured by Amazons and taken to the Valley of Mists. Before he dies, Roger asks Tarzan to save Leda. 

Tarzan and Thulak pursue the Amazons to the edge of a cliff with nothing but mist below. Tarzan and Thulak’s tribe of apes descend. A plane sputters over head. The pilot parachutes out. Tarzan saves the pilot, Jeff Lansing, from water pythons. 

After seeing two Amazon women emerging from a trapdoor, Tarzan dons a diving helmet and enters the water to find Leda and the temple. Lansing puts on the other breathing devise and follows. They find Leda and the Amazons, who are forcing Leda to sacrifice a pig. The Amazons bow to Tarzan as they see The Eye of the Python necklace around his neck. Tarzan rescues Leda. 

They take to the trees and make their escape with Tarzan carrying Leda and the apes, Lansing. Safe at last, Tarzan tells her about her brother’s death. Tarzan tells Lansing to tell Leda that he loves her. Tarzan gives Leda the Eye of the Python to start their new life together. End. 

Roger Mackrey is derivative of “Tarzan the Magnificent’s” dying Stanley Wood.

The use of an underwater temple and diving suits probably is taken from “Tarzan and the Forbidden City.” 

Tarzan, Princess Ila, and Taddo ride the Giant Eland across the Great Thorn Desert towards Lipona. In the Great Swamp the Giant Eland saves Taddo from a crocodile. 

In Pal-ul-don, sabor toothed tigers pursue them. Tarzan kills one with a rock. Hyenadons chase off the eland. Tarzan follows them and finds a Dyal attacking Olan of the caves. Tarzan captures and tames the Dyal. They return to find Ila and Taddo missing. They follow Tor-o-don tracks. 

Catching up to the captives, the Dyal kills the Tor-o-don. A week later they meet up with Princess Ila’s husband, who is now king as their enemies have been overthrown. Tarzan says his good-byes and leaves to search for the Giant Eland. End.

This story continues where Dell 17.1 left off. 

Tarzan, Muviro, and the Waziri are traveling back home. They find a dying man in ivory armor that tells them about a raiding party on elephants seeking slaves traveling towards the Waziri village. Tarzan speeds ahead to discover that Boy and many young Waziri have been captured. He pursues them. 

Tarzan uses Tantor to follow the kidnappers. In the Ivory City, Boy is thrown into a cell. Tarzan discovers where Boy is being held. The parapet he is on crumbles. He is captured and thrown into a cell between the Strangler, a brutish local hero of the gladiatorial games, and a gorilla. 

At the emperor’s games, Tarzan makes short work of the Strangler and throws him into Prince Mako’s viewing box. The prince has the gorilla released. Tarzan kills it. The spoiled prince has Tarzan locked up. The king pits Tarzan against his swiftest hunters. Tarzan defeats them. The ape-man saves the king from a mad elephant. 

The grateful king frees Boy and the other Waziri children. On the way home the Prince and an armed body of men pursue them. Tarzan drops into the howdah of the Prince. His own men accidentally kill the Prince. Muviro and the Waziri warriors arrive and the remainder of the Men in Ivory scurry home. End.

The Strangler is the same character as Phobeg in “Tarzan and the City of Gold.” The Strangler is from the Ivory City while Phobeg is from Cathne, City of Gold. 

Tarzan is riding his Dyal. The Dyal kills a garth thus saving Lachee, the red flower, daughter of King Bo-az. They ride the Dyal in search of Jo-rah, her lover. A thipdar carries off Tarzan by his quiver strap. Timon, Jo-rah’s rival, searches for Lachee.

Tarzan escapes from the thipdar. Jo-rah battles a Glotha, cave bear. Tarzan kills the Glotha. Timon is enraged by Lachee’s rejection. He tries to spear her, but hits a telodon. The telodon kill Timon. Tarzan kills the telodon. Tarzan gives Jo-rah and Lachee the Dyal as a wedding present. End.

Tarzan battles men in crocodile skins. His arrows drive them off. 

Tarzan catches a mangani and her balu from a fall. They take Tarzan to their camp on top of the trees. Gorlak, the gund, does not trust Tarzan. The ape-man defeats Gorlak but turns down the leadership of the tribe. 

Crocodiles in the water and Terribs’ spears from the shore attack a canoe containing two white people. Tarzan ropes Tim and Jess Wales up into the trees and takes them to the mangani camp. That night, Tarzan alerts them to a Terribs attack. A Terribs captures Jess. Tarzan and Tim trail the Terribs to their stone tower village in the desert. 

They use crocodile armor disguises to rescue Jess. At a river, Tarzan uses a plank that the Terribs tried to drop on them as a floating devise. The river carries them into a dark cavern inside a mountain. They come out near a Marubi village whose chief, Obantu, agrees to provide guides to bring the couple to civilization. End.

This story introduces the Terribs, most likely inspired by Burroughs’ Horibs. 

N’kima tells Tarzan that he, Jad-bal-ja and his mate, and many other animals have been captured. N’kima has escaped and wants Tarzan to rescue the others. A hurricane approaches. Tarzan climbs a tree to get N’kima. The tree trunk breaks, and they are blown out to sea. The storm abates. Tarzan swims for an island. 

On the island they recognize the Golden Lion’s roar. They sneak up on an Arab dhow crippled by the storm. Al Jemel convinces his brothers to mutiny against the ship’s owner, Murdock, the Bull. Tarzan steals their rifles. He sets up some rifles so N’kima can fire them with a pull of a vine. Tarzan swims out to the ship and frees Jad-bal-ja. They capture Murdock and free the animals. An impatient N’kima pulls the vine. The Arabs take cover. Tarzan swims back to the island. He attacks Al Jemel. The Arabs head for their rowboat. 

Meanwhile, Murdock frees himself but is confronted by Jad-bal-ja and his mate. Tarzan and the animals capture Murdock and the Arabs. Tarzan forces Murdock to sail the animals home and to leave Africa forever. End.