Edgar Rice Burroughs

It's very, very possible that Frank knew Johnny Roselli.

Heck, maybe he's the one who introduced Roselli to Edgar, Edgar Rice Burroughs through Irving.

You know, I, I, I, there's no telling, but there's way more of a connection than any of us have been led to believe, and it just goes to show you how small this Hollywood world is and how connected it really is.

When one of them knows, all of them know, okay? [upbeat music] While the history books were already logged with the names of his famous siblings, Frank was quietly making a name for himself in his lewd picture game.

And just before you go, I'd be immensely grateful if you could leave me a review, and I'll read the best ones out next time.

Coming up on the main feed, very soon I'm going to be chatting with author and film writer Guy Adams about The Land That Time Forgot, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs of Tarzan fame.

But until then, I'll just say thank you very, very much for listening.

And let's hope the pirates don't eat the tourists.

Tarzan is a bit of an oddity for me.

I'm nothing if not a fan of the pulp fiction of the early 20th century, and I'm a fan of a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs' work, particularly his Barsoom novels, featuring the immortal adventurer John Carter of Mars.

I've even read some of his other planetary romances, his Hollow Earth books, and an underrated historical novel set in Ancient Rome.

However, Tarzan has always struggled a bit to land for me.

In fact, I'm gonna say they are super racist.

But I've read a bunch of H. Rider Haggard books that are equally and explicitly colonialist, so I think...

But I think a bigger part of it is that I just haven't got to the part of the Tarzan series where Edgar Rice Burroughs runs out of classic adventure story ideas and starts to go completely nuts.

The criminals and foreign agents that populate the early novels are replaced with scientists, with cities of talking gorillas at their beck and call, and lost kingdoms conquered by the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages.

In tonight's action-packed adventure, as you have just heard, on Barsoom...

Texas Lucy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tars Tarkas, Clan Warlord Reh, and his mercenaries find themselves outnumbered by the vile, one-eyed, blue plant men of Mars while back on Earth.

our intrepid hero Jake Sampson has been double-crossed by the beautiful Dejah Thoris, wife to John Carter, hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels, and now finds himself again the prisoner of the diabolical Fu Manchu on the Bora Bora Islands.

across the globe in england hartford leads winston churchill to the secret enclave of the knights templar located under stonehenge while in germany the nazi evil begins to spread with continental europe in its vile site and hitler awaits the delivery of jake sampson from the diabolical fu manchu can our heroes both here and on mars survive join us now and find out If you dare.

Pedestal has lowered us into this blasted cabin below Stonehenge.

Hurry! It's closing for the last time! TARS, take them! You are not coming? No.

It's been an honor,

Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The concept comes primarily from Frank Frazetta, with some help and writing from Gardner Fox.

and what do i really want to say about this it's yeah it's well known because he bailed after one issue he had all these problems um with the company and you can you can sense those problems actually reading i'm only going to talk about issue one because that's the only one he did now almost everywhere on the internet you will read that this is the only full issue of a comic that frank rosetta ever did he's not as well known for comics as he is for you know those famous Conan the Barbarian covers for books or or the covers for you know John Carter of Mars books and other work by Edgar Rice Burroughs that's you know genre fans know him mostly for that stuff but he did draw and write comics as early as the 1940s I think he started as a teenager in 1944 and I'm going to turn to let's see now Yeah, I'm going to turn to Toonopedia.

Now this is the only place online that states he did not, this is not the only comic he ever drew entirely.

So it says he entered the comics field in 1944.

I'm going to hit this big gong, though.

And then a giant snake appears.

and he plugs it full of bullets and and all the tribe cheers and they call him they start calling him thunder so that's where he gets his name and that's the end of the first story it's it's short it's only a few pages but in the second story there's a war between again faz people and it looks like a different type of a different group of ape men because and again this is a bit this is a bit like Edgar Rice Burroughs you know in all of his lost lands there's about 10 or 12 different races of like humanoid creatures and they barely they barely differentiate from each other enough to warrant creating another race he just like oh uh there's ape men but there's cave men but there's neanderthals but there's you know lizard men and ant men and leopard men and what have you it's a kind of kind of getting into that territory so in the first episode the prehistoric tribe looked like cavemen but they also are slightly ape-like they have big i don't know they they just look like cartoon ape men whereas in this this time these are full-on like actual apes that are riding mastodons which is great loving it and so yeah the the human tribe is attacked by apes riding you know mammoths or mastodons And in the middle of all this, Fa takes our boy Thunda to a part of her city and it says, in the ancient ruins of Shireen, Thunda hears the tale of the world's first men, even as he learns Fa's language.

And she's telling him, the legends say that men came down from the sky, forgotten ages ago, and found shelter in the lost lands.