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The Sunday Comic Artists of ERB

Published: September 1, 2025 1 minute 3 comments

In observation of the 150th anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ birth (September 1, 1875) The Daily Cartoonist herewith presents the artists of the Sunday newspaper comics adapting and inspired by ERB.

Tarzan by Rex Maxon (Sundays: March 15, 1931 – September 20, 1931)
Tarzan by Harold Foster (Sundays: September 27, 1931 – May 2, 1937)
Tarzan by Burne Hogarth (Sundays: May 9, 1937 – November 25, 1945 & August 10, 1947 – August 20, 1950)
Tarzan by Ruben Moreira as Rubimor (Sundays: December 2, 1945 – August 3, 1947)
Tarzan by Bob Lubbers (Sundays: August 27, 1950 – February 14, 1954)
Tarzan by John Celardo (Sundays: February 21, 1954 – January 7, 1968)
Tarzan by Russ Manning (Sundays: Jan. 14, 1968 – June 24, 1979; with Mike Royer Feb. 4, 1979 on)
Tarzan by Gil Kane (Sundays: July 1, 1979 – February 1, 1981)

>>From 8 Feb. to 12 July 1981 the syndicate reprinted old Hogarth strips from 1948<<

Tarzan by Mike Grell (Sundays: July 19, 1981 – September 6, 1981 and September 27, 1981 – February 6, 1983 and February 20, 1983 – February 27, 1983)
Tarzan by Frank Bolle (Sundays: September 13, 1981 – September 20, 1981)
Tarzan by Thomas Yeates (Sunday: February 13, 1983)
Tarzan by Gray Morrow (Sundays: March 6, 1983 – August 19, 2001)
Tarzan by Eric Battle (Sundays: August 26, 2001 – May 19, 2002)

Dates (and most images) from ERBzine’s List of Sunday Tarzan Comic Strips by Huck Huckenpohler.

But wait! There’s more Sunday ERB!

John Carter of Mars by John Coleman Burroughs (Sundays: December 7, 1941 – March 28, 1943)

In 2021 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc began a new series of ERB Sunday formatted web comic strips.

Tarzan by Tom Grindberg
John Carter, Warlord of Mars by Pegaso

The webcomics continue to this day.

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Comments 3

  1. My sister gave me Hogarth’s Dynamic Figure Drawing when I started art school. Though my style was more Krazy Kat then Tarzan, I absorbed the lessons in that book and it actually helped me when I started Life Drawing class.

  2. I think it’s supposed to be “1875” in the first sentence.

    1. Y’know, I double checked all the dates in the body of the post – but not in the lede.

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