Tarzan - Versus The Nazis (Vol. 3)

Excellent quality

There were anachronisms from the two previous volumes that I just accepted as a product of the time period in which these comics were produced but now we're getting into the mid to late 40's and Tarzan seems stuck in time. First, I really don't like the third person narration and by the 1940's most comics had evolved to second person narration. Another issue is the terrible habit of placing text over colored backgrounds making it difficult, sometimes impossible, to read. Maybe this wasn't so bad when the images were full newspaper sized but here it can be a bit of a pain. I has happy to see that about halfway though the book Hogarth FINALLY figured out that putting text over a white background makes it infinitely more readable.These are not the most well written stories. They tend to be repetitive with flat, unoriginal characters but I do like the fact that Hogarth stays away from the more fantasy elements of Tarzan. At the very least these are unique stories and not simply retelling Burroughs novels. My biggest issue is that the book makes Tarzan's life seem miserable. He just moves from one conflict to the next always involving himself in a battle between groups. There is often a white girl caught in the middle and with the resolution of the conflict he moves on to the next issue with nary a moments rest. Why does he bother? I would just swing into the jungle and stay the hell away from humans because they bring him nothing but misery.Some publishers choose to really clean up the original images and others prefer to present the comics more in the way they originally looked. It's a matter of taste but I tend to prefer the images cleaned up. Titan has chosen to keep in place a lot of the printing errors. This can include slightly askew inking and occasional areas where the ink collected creating darker patches. It gives the images a bit of a sloppy look which is a shame because Hogarth does some very nice penciling and inking. His style somewhat reminds me of Joe Kubert. I never enjoyed Kubert's art when he drew superheroes but he nailed it when he did Tarzan. Hogarth includes a lot of meticulous detail which is great when you're drawing junglescapes. If I had one complaint it would be that he tends to draw people, including Tarzan, as if they were wearing mascara or had dark circles under their eyes. It gives everyone a sinister or possibly weary look. In the case of Tarzan I can understand his weariness since Hogarth never gives him a moments rest.It would be the rare person who considers this great literature but it's an interesting piece of Tarzan history and fans will likely enjoy reading these stories.

I wonder how it is possible for Fantagraphics to produce such wonderful, crisp, quality reproductions of Hal Foster's art, while apparently it cannot be done at the same level for Burne Hogarth's art? Hogarth is an absolutely amazing artist who went the extra mile to produce quality artwork, but his work is then sometimes subjected to some seriously sloppy handling in the reproduction and printing phases - an infinite shame!Most of the stories are, frankly, ridiculous. I wanted to say "unbelievable" but of course, this is fantasy. Let's just say, it all seems a bit pointless and repetitive. And inconsistent. For example: Tarzan jumps off his horse so he can grab it and hurl it out of the path of a falling boulder. A few strips further on he barely survives an attack by a hyena (not much larger than a big dog), while armed with a knife. And so on. You will need some serious suspension of disbelief to enjoy the stories.Not mentioned anywhere I can see is that some of the strips in this volume are not drawn by Hogarth, but by an artist signing himself "Rubimor" (Ruben Moreira): Tarzan and the Tartars, page 119 - Tarzan on the Island of Kagor, p 145. He is a capable artist but he does not compare to Hogarth, as far as I am concernedBut I bought the book for the artwork by the great Burne Hogarth. His genius is undeniable. As always, I am just happy to finally have his work in my hands.

While I am a tremendous fan of Titan Publishing (and they did a wonderful job publishing one of my books as well as the James Bond comic strips), their new Tarzan book fell far below my expectations. I really wanted the book to be dazzling, had my wallet in hand and everything. But the reproduction in Tarzan Vs. The Nazis Vol 3, sadly, is muddy and difficult to read. In an important Sunday strip like Tarzan, color and sharpness are everything. I am lucky enough to own the original black and white art to one of the pages, Tarzan January 2, 1944, and had hoped that breathtaking illustration would receive its just due so I could show the two side by side--color and black and white. Readers deserve better than this new contribution. I will still buy Titan's other terrific books, but I will skip the three others in this Tarzan series. What a shame. It could have been glorious. I would recommend instead, if you can still find them, The Flying Buttress Classic Library vol. 13, (1943-1944), Tarzan in Color in hardcover of 1995. It was far superior, sold for less, and was printed the same size. I bought them all. Robert Graysmith

As described

Thank you very much.

Wow, what a great book. Yes perhaps the stories are not that suprising, but the paintwork is incredibly good. Glad to have it.

technisch gelungene Reproduktion. Ausgezeichneter Druck, aber man sollte genau lesen, es sind nur die Seiten von Burn Hogarth. Tarzan damit lückenhaft. Hogarth hat zwischendurch ausgesetzt. Es ist ist daher in der Erscheinung eine Lücke. Will man chronologisch die Sonntagsseiten ab Beginn haben, muss man auf die Nachdrucke vom Hethke Verlag zurückgreifen. Diese sind 'stur' jahrgangsweise in Bücher zusammengefaßt. Alle Tarzan-Zeichner sind nur dort enthalten.Als Tarzanausgabe daher ist die US-Ausgabe also nur bedingt brauchbar ... Wenn man auch die anderen Zeichner haben möchte muss man auf andere Publikationen zurückgreife. So sind auch die Ausgaben von Russ Mannings schon erschienen - Sundays und Dailys. Einen gesamten Überblick chronologisch erhält man also nicht ... schade Chance verpasst.Für den schönen Druck leider daher nur 3 Sterne

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Reproduction was no where near Prince Valiant or Flash Gordon. Colour not very good. THEO CHARMBURY

C'est un plaisir de parcourir les dessins de cette BD. B.Hogarth est un des grands virtuoses de la BD americaine