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June 28th, 2006, 04:05 PM
The stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs have had an impact in the New Era, something seen most keenly in the mention of the Pellucidar’s Mahars* joining with the other Ancients to fend off Bagan. But there might be another thing…
That thing is Tarzan! It has been speculated that Tarzan might have existed in the New Era as how in one story, he visited Pellucidar, both of which were created by Burroughs. Now there might be another thing that could lend credence to that and that is King Kong.
The Kong used in the New Era is the 1976 Kong which people have noted is more of ape-man than an ape with how he smoothly walks upright instead of shambling on all fours, that he has longer legs than arms, etc. He is said to be so huge due to uranium water below SkullIsland, that water filtered through uranium deposits leads to mutation… Well so be it.
Then I came across something else. It is “Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years.” It is volume one from the Dark Horse Archives. It has Kubert’s adaptations of pre-existing Tarzan stories or his own stories inspired by those tales One caught my eye. It was originally published as part of DC’s original run issue #211, dated August 1972. It’s called “Land of the Giants.” After fighting a crocodile, Tarzan is swept through a river and finds himself in “the HiddenValley.” (As a 21st century fellow, I read it for the corny cutsiness of such a thing. Chuckle and say “right…”) It is home to the Kolosans a race of giant people and giant animals. At one point, an evil dwarf named Martius Kalban seeks the secret. At the bottom of page 128 (12 of the original) he follows and sees the Kolosans explain to Tarzan that “Whoever drinks from these waters grows instantly huge and strong! But may well lose his soul!”
Kalban says, “Huge and strong? This is the secret of their size… THE WATER!”
But of course it backfires though later a great ape whom Tarzan had befriended there accidentally drinks the water “The transformation is immediate and HORRIBLE!” Now a Kong sized ape, he goes on the rampage almost killing Tarzan and destroying the plane he is on.
Unless explicitly denied, Tarzan may exist in the New Era due to guilt be association with the Mahars. We have growth serum water… and we have a great ape. See, Tarzan wasn’t raised by gorillas but by great apes, also called anthropoids. Its one of those things, like with how everyone thinks Sherlock Holmes said elementary Watson when he never really did. Great Apes are said to be more intelligent than gorillas, bordering on human intelligence, eat meat, are fiercer, and can walk on their hind legs quite easily. Sound like Kong 1976, eh?
What if Kong 1976 was not a real gorilla but an Great Ape? What if then, this anthropoid was exposed to the same water on Skull Island that exists in the Kolosans valley?
*Pelluicdar was another of Burroughs creations. It is said to be another world in the inside curve of the hollow Earth. It is or was ruled by the Mahars an evil band of evolved Pterodactyls. In the New Era, the tail on young King Ghidorah that we see severed and burrow into the ground in Rebirth of Mothra III was found and nurtured by the Mahars into the Death Ghidorah we see in Rebirth of Mothra I. Hmm assuming that te Mahars are still alive, they might make for interesting foes. Have them revive the underground Megalon?
**The story King Kong vs. Godzilla notes that the US govt. was trying to use Skull/Kong Island water to make perfect soldiers but worried that the extreme growth could cause mental problems. Kolosans said their water grants great strength but that he who drinks “May well lose his soul!” Coincidence?
If you’d like to see it go here. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593074042/qid=1151523418/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4482038-7236800?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
That thing is Tarzan! It has been speculated that Tarzan might have existed in the New Era as how in one story, he visited Pellucidar, both of which were created by Burroughs. Now there might be another thing that could lend credence to that and that is King Kong.
The Kong used in the New Era is the 1976 Kong which people have noted is more of ape-man than an ape with how he smoothly walks upright instead of shambling on all fours, that he has longer legs than arms, etc. He is said to be so huge due to uranium water below SkullIsland, that water filtered through uranium deposits leads to mutation… Well so be it.
Then I came across something else. It is “Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years.” It is volume one from the Dark Horse Archives. It has Kubert’s adaptations of pre-existing Tarzan stories or his own stories inspired by those tales One caught my eye. It was originally published as part of DC’s original run issue #211, dated August 1972. It’s called “Land of the Giants.” After fighting a crocodile, Tarzan is swept through a river and finds himself in “the HiddenValley.” (As a 21st century fellow, I read it for the corny cutsiness of such a thing. Chuckle and say “right…”) It is home to the Kolosans a race of giant people and giant animals. At one point, an evil dwarf named Martius Kalban seeks the secret. At the bottom of page 128 (12 of the original) he follows and sees the Kolosans explain to Tarzan that “Whoever drinks from these waters grows instantly huge and strong! But may well lose his soul!”
Kalban says, “Huge and strong? This is the secret of their size… THE WATER!”
But of course it backfires though later a great ape whom Tarzan had befriended there accidentally drinks the water “The transformation is immediate and HORRIBLE!” Now a Kong sized ape, he goes on the rampage almost killing Tarzan and destroying the plane he is on.
Unless explicitly denied, Tarzan may exist in the New Era due to guilt be association with the Mahars. We have growth serum water… and we have a great ape. See, Tarzan wasn’t raised by gorillas but by great apes, also called anthropoids. Its one of those things, like with how everyone thinks Sherlock Holmes said elementary Watson when he never really did. Great Apes are said to be more intelligent than gorillas, bordering on human intelligence, eat meat, are fiercer, and can walk on their hind legs quite easily. Sound like Kong 1976, eh?
What if Kong 1976 was not a real gorilla but an Great Ape? What if then, this anthropoid was exposed to the same water on Skull Island that exists in the Kolosans valley?
*Pelluicdar was another of Burroughs creations. It is said to be another world in the inside curve of the hollow Earth. It is or was ruled by the Mahars an evil band of evolved Pterodactyls. In the New Era, the tail on young King Ghidorah that we see severed and burrow into the ground in Rebirth of Mothra III was found and nurtured by the Mahars into the Death Ghidorah we see in Rebirth of Mothra I. Hmm assuming that te Mahars are still alive, they might make for interesting foes. Have them revive the underground Megalon?
**The story King Kong vs. Godzilla notes that the US govt. was trying to use Skull/Kong Island water to make perfect soldiers but worried that the extreme growth could cause mental problems. Kolosans said their water grants great strength but that he who drinks “May well lose his soul!” Coincidence?
If you’d like to see it go here. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593074042/qid=1151523418/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4482038-7236800?s=books&v=glance&n=283155