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Volume 494
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ERB C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA

Edgar Rice Burroughs'
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
Art Gallery of J. Allen St. John Interiors ~ Publishing History ~
Summary ~ Cast ~ Titles ~ Paperback Covers
For Nkima's Art Analysis and even larger images of this St. John art
- part of our Tarzan the Terrible Compendium series -
please see ERBzin-e 105

PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
ERB commenced writing in August 1920

PULP
Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1921: February 12, 19, 26; March 5, 12, 19, 26
    P.J. Monahan: cover ~ no interiors
FIRST EDITION
A.C. McClurg: June 20, 1921 ~ 408 pages
    J. Allen St. John: DJ and nine interior sepia plates ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs: map of Pal-ul-don and glossary
REPRINT EDITIONS
A.C. McClurg: 1922
Grosset & Dunlap: 1923 ~ 408 pages
    J. Allen St. John: DJ and only four b/w interiors ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs: map and glossary
Grosset & Dunlap: 1934
Grosset & Dunlap: 1940 ~ ERB map and glossary but no other interiors
Big Little Book Whitman Publishing: 1942 ~ 432 pages
    John Coleman Burroughs: cover & interior flip animation art ~ Rex Maxon: 209 illustrations abridged from 1931-32 daily strips
Grosset & Dunlap Madison Square wartime edition: 1943 ~ 305 pages ~ St. John DJ & title page but no interiors
Grosset & Dunlap: 1949, 1955, 1958 ~ 305 pages
    C. Edmund Monroe: DJ ~ Rafael Palcios: Africa map on endpapers (omitted in 1958)
Ballantine paperback: July & November 1963 ~ 220 pages
    Richard Powers cover
Grosset & Dunlap: 1967 ~ 305 pages
    C. Edmund Monroe: pictorial boards using previous DJ illustration
Ballantine paperback: October 1969 ~ 220 pages
    Robert Abbett cover
Ballantine paperback: November 1976
    Boris Vallejo cover
Del Rey-Ballantine Double paperback with Tarzan the Untamed: March 1997 ~ 467 pages
    J. Allen St. John cover

For detailed information see: Zeuschner's ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography
Tarzan the Terrible: Dust Jacket by J. Allen St. John
Edgar Rice Burroughs'
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE

SUMMARY FROM BALLANTINE BOOK BLURBS

Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don—a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails—and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time. And far behind, relentlessly pursuing, came Korak the Killer.
Edgar Rice Burroughs'
Tarzan the Terrible

Chapter Titles 
(See ERBzin-e 066 for a 

complete list of all ERB chapter names)

I. The Pithecanthropus
II. "To the Death!"
III. Pan-at-lee
IV. Tarzan-jad-guru
V. In the Kor-ul-gryf
VI. The Tor-o-don
VII. Jungle Craft
VIII. A-lur
IX. Blood-Stained Alters
X. The Forbidden Garden
XI. The Sentence of Death
XII. The Giant Stranger
XIII. The Masquerader
XIV. The Temple of the Gryf
XV. "The King Is Dead!"
XVI. The Secret Way
XVII. By Jad-bal-lul
XVIII. The Lion Pit of Tu-lur
XIX. Diana of the Jungle
XX. Silently in the Night
XXI. The Maniac
XXII. A Journey on a Gryf
XXIII. Taken Alive
XXIV. The Messenger of Death
XXV. Home
Glossary

 CAST LIST with Important Pal-ul-don Place Names (in alphabetical order)
Ab-on: Acting chief of Kor-ul-ja
A-lur: City of light
An-un: Father of Pan-at-lee
Bu-lot: Son of chief Mo-sar
Bu-lur: City of the Waz-ho-don
Dak-at: Chief of a Ho-don vilage
Dak-lot: One of Ko-tan's palace warriors
Dor-ul-Otho: (Son of God) Tarzan
Es-sat: Chief of Om-at's tribe of hairy blacks
Ho-don: Hairless white men of Pal-ul-don
Id-an: One of Pan-at-lee's two brothers
In-sad & O-dan: Kor-ul-ja warriors searching for Pan-at-lee
In-tan: Kor-ul-lul left to guard Tarzan
Ja-don: Chief of a Ho-don village and father of Ta-den
Jar-don: Name given Korak by Om-at
Ko-tan: King of the Ho-don
Kor-ul-gryf: Gorge of the gryf
Kor-ul-ja: Es-sat's gorge and tribe
Korul-lul: Another Waz-don gorge and tribe
Lu-don: High priest of A-lur
Mo-sar: Chief and pretender
O-lo-a: Ko-tan's daughter
Om-at: A black
Pal-ul-don: Land of Man
Pal-ul-ja: Land of lions
Pan-at-lee: Om-at's sweetheart
Pan-sat: A priest
Ta-den: A white
Tarzan-jad-guru: Tarzan the Terrible
Tor-o-don: Beastlike man
Tul-lur: Mo-sar's city
Waz-don: Hairy black men of Pal-ul-don
Waz-ho-don: Mixed black-white race

Nine Interior Plates
by
J. Allen St. John
Tarzan the Terrible Frontispiece by J. Allen St. JohnAs the two antagonists battled, a devil-faced saber-tooth peered menacingly from the jungle.Like a gigantic rat the shaggy, black figure moved across the face of the perpendicular cliff.She felt her fingers numbing slowly to the strain upon themHe dove headforemost beneath the giant reptile and plunged his knife into the slimy bellyThe two women dropped to their knees, stricken with awe at the thought of the awful nearness of the Great God“Ko-tan spring forward, and seizing Jane about the waist, carried her off struggling and fighting fiercely.“Every enemy back being toward her, Lady Greystoke slid quietly into the chill, dark lake.
“The gryf issued his hideous challenging bellow and charged the warriors.


PICTURE CAPTION SUMMARY
Place your mouse pointer on each illustration above to see the respective caption displayed

1.  frontispiece

2.  (between pages 22-23) "As the two antagonists battled, a devil-faced saber-tooth peered menacingly from the jungle."

3.  (between pages 40-41)  "Like a gigantic rat the shaggy, black figure moved across the face of the perpendicular cliff."

4.  (between pages 96-97)  "She felt her fingers numbing slowly to the strain upon them"

5.  (between pages 126-127)  "He dove headforemost beneath the giant reptile and plunged his knife into the slimy belly"

6.  (between pages 168-169)  "The two women dropped to their knees, stricken with awe at the thought of the awful nearness of the Great God."

7. (between pages 248-249)  “Ko-tan spring forward, and seizing Jane about the waist, carried her off struggling and fighting fiercely.” [Ko-tan is incorrectly named.  It should read, “Mo-sar.”]

8. (between pages 278-279) “Every enemy back being toward her, Lady Greystoke slid quietly into the chill, dark lake.”

9. (between pages 354-355)  “The gryf issued his hideous challenging bellow and charged the warriors”


John Clayton, Lord Greystoke
LORD GREYSTOKE'S GALLERY
Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1921: February 12John Coleman Burroughs art: Big Little Book 1942
US Paperback Gallery
Richard Powers art: Ballantine 1963Robert Abbett art: Ballantine 1969Robert Abbett art: Ballantine 1972Boris Vallejo art: Ballantine 1980Boris Vallejo art: Ballantine 1993
UK Paperback Gallery
Edward Mortelmans art: Four Square 1960Edward Mortelmans art: Four Square 1964

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