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Volume 497
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Edgar Rice Burroughs'
Tarzan and the Ant Men
Publishing History ~ Covers ~ St. John Art
Summary ~ Cast ~ Lord Greystoke's Cover Art Gallery

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PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
ERB commenced writing June 20, 1923 ~ finished November 22, 1923
86,000 words

PULP
Argosy All-Story Weekly ~ 1924: February 2, 9, 16, 23 ~ March 1, 8, 15
    Cover by Stockton Mulford ~ One interior illo per issue by Roger B. Morrison
FIRST EDITION
A. C. McClurg & Co ~ September 30, 1924 ~ 346 pages
    J. Allen St. John: wrap-around DJ and frontispiece version of DJ in sepia ~ (contains "How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales")
REPRINTS
Mixed McClurg and Grosset & Dunlap edition ~ 1925
    J. Allen St. John DJ and reversed sepia frontispiece
Grosset & Dunlap ~ 1925
Grosset & Dunlap ~ 1940 ~ no frontispiece
Grosset & Dunlap ~ 1943 ~ wartime edition ~ no frontispiece
Better Little Book: Whitman Publishing ~ 1945
    John Coleman Burroughs cover ~ Rex Maxon: 171 illos from 1932 newspaper strips
Grosset & Dunlap ~ January 1950
    E. Monroe: DJ art ~ Rafael Palacios: endpages map and title drawing ~ no interiors
Ballantine Books ~ July 1963
    Richard Powers cover
Grosset & Dunlap ~ 1967
    Pictorial boards cover with unknown artist ~ Rafael Palacios title page decoration ~ no interiors
Ballantine Books ~ October 1969 - 1972
    Robert Abbett cover
Ballantine Books ~ November 1976
    Boris Vallejo cover
Del Rey-Ballantine Double paperback: May 1997 ~ 426 pages ~ with Tarzan and the Golden Lion
    Charles Keegan cover

Obebe ~ chief of cannibal tribe
Esteban Miranda  ~ Tarzan look-alike, now mad and captive
Khamis ~ Obebe's witch doctor
Ohha ~ Khamis' 14-year-old daughter
Korak ~ son of Tarzan, born Jack
Meriem ~ Korak's wife, once an Arab captive
Jackie ~ infant son of Korak and Meriem
TARZAN of the Apes ~ John Clayton, Lord Greystoke aka Zuzanthrol by the Veltopismakusians
Jane Clayton ~ Lady Greystoke, aka My Dear
Andua ~ Waziri warrior who can fly planes
Aluli — First Woman ~ Thorn Forest virago, finds Tarzan
Second Woman ~ woman bludgeoned by First Woman
Third Woman ~ arrives with antelope and captive man
Son of First Woman ~ 16-year-old boy befriended by Tarzan
Minunians —Adendrohahkis ~ King of the Tohanadalmakusians
Prince Komodoflorensal ~ son of Adendrohahkis, aka Aoponato
Elkomoelhago ~ King of the Veltopismakusians
Prince Zoanthrohago Zertol ~ Veltopismakusian owner of Tarzan
Gofoloso ~ friend of Elkomoelhago, Chief of Chiefs
Janzara ~ daughter of Elkomoelhago
Torndali ~ Veltopismakusian Chief of Quarries
 Makahago ~ Veltopismakusian Chief of Buildings
Throwaldo ~ Veltopismakusian Chief of Agriculture
Vestako ~ Veltopismakusian Chief of the Royal Dome
Gefasto ~ Veltopismakusian Chief of Warriors
Kalfastoban ~ Vental (commander of ten warriors)
Talaskar ~ cook for 800^3+19 (aka Aoponato)
Caraftap ~ Slave who wants Talaskar
Oratharc ~ helpful Veltopismakusian warrior
Usula ~ Tarzan's Waziri headman
Flora Hawkes ~ maid to Lady Greystoke

No man had ever penetrated the Great thorn Forest until Tarzan of the Apes crashed his plane behind it on his first solo flight. Within lay a beautiful country. But in it lived the Alali, strange stone-age giants whose women regarded all men as less than slaves. And beyond the Alali lay the country of the Ant-Men — little people only eighteen inches tall. There, in Trohanadalmakus, Tarzan was an honored guest—until he was captured by the warriors of Veltopismakus in one of the ant-men's wars. They had their plans for the ape-man. By the advanced science of the little men, Tarzan was shrunk to their size and set to work as a quarry slave.

Chapters: 22 untitled chapters

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References
Bill Hillman's Illustrated ERB Bibliography
ERB C.H.A.S.E.R. Online Encyclopedia
Hillman ERB Cosmos
John Coleman Burroughs Tribute
J. Allen St. John Bio, Gallery & Links
Edgar Rice Burroughs: LifeLine Biography
Bob Zeuschner's ERB Bibliography
J.G. Huckenpohler's ERB Checklist
Burroughs Bibliophiles Bulletin
G. T. McWhorter's Burroughs Bulletin Index
Bruce Wood's ERB Jacket Store
Ed Stephan's Tarzan of the Internet
Nick Knowles' ERB Paperback Collector
Illustrated Bibliography of ERB Pulp Magazines
ERBzin-e Weekly Online Fanzine
ERB Emporium: Collectibles ~ Comics ~ BLBs ~ Pulps ~ Cards
Clark A. Brady's Burroughs Cyclopedia
Heins' Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bradford M. Day's Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Bibliography

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