Tarzan (1972) 207

Tarzan (1972) 207

Hard to imagine, but there’s Christmas even in the steamiest, darkest regions of the world as evidenced in Tarzan 207; DC’s first installment chronicling the adventures the jungle lord.

Taking its numbering from where Gold Key left off, DC Comics, then still National Periodicals, handed writing chores to Joe Kubert allowing him to retell the origin of Tarzan.

A brief interlude between the main stories included a short bio of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burrows and a story about Tarzan’s first Christmas. The holiday tale is more prose and illustrations – like an abbreviated Big Little Book – that first appeared in Sunday newspaper strips Dec. 27, 1931 illustrated by Hal Foster.

Marv Wolfman warped up the book with a second of Burrow’s most famous creations, John Carter of Mars.