Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

For the first tale in the now-largely canonised Tarzan: The New Adventures, Tom Grindberg designed an ugly-cute Tarzan on a mishmash of Jesse Marsh and John Coleman Burroughs (via Ramona Fradon and Sal Buscema), and then Benito Gallego came along with a Tarzan that’s as ugly cute as Baki the Grappler. Even after the ERB Universe line launched in 2019, Chris Peuler made a Jesse Marsh-Mac Raboy crossbreed, one of the most accurate takes of the ERBU canon Tarzan by far. Rather tellingly, Rick Leonardi, Shane Foley, Mike Wolfer and Joe Jusko are amongst the few other artists who actually blend them properly for official Tarzan works.  This why Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc’s own ERB Universe and its original canon prefer these otherwise different styles being blended into something else. It makes sense with many of the oldies being the preceding ‘godparent’ styles to most of the newer ones. Jesse Marsh (both first two ever Tarzan covers for Dell Comics and later comics for Dell Comics and G...