When Tarzan first meets other Caucasians he is 21. In the story, Tarzan’s parents are shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1888. With that in mind, we can look at the story itself to determine how old he is at the time of publication- 1912. Though serialized in 1912, it’s not collected as a novel until 1914. But, how old is Tarzan? Does he age? It fairly easy to figure out how old Tarzan is when the first novel Tarzan of the Apes is first published. Tarzan is a character whose initial adventures written by his creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, are published from 1912-1947, a period of 35 years. Originally serialized in pulp magazines, the final novels were published out of order of their writing. Stories were not always published in order as novels. However, the in-story timeline is both more and less complex. That’s a writing window of roughly 30 years. Burroughs last stories were written in the late 1940’s, some wouldn’t be published for another 20 or so years (Burroughs died in 1950). Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 24 Tarzan novels that were published between 19. Like their antecedents the Pulp Magazine heroes, comic book characters can go on and on forever without aging. One aspect that has come to be a detriment and advantage to the form is the lack of characters aging. Like it’s cousins, moving pictures and prose fiction, comics seek to entertain their audience, but often at the same time do it in an artistic way- sometimes visually, sometimes through the craft itself and sometimes with a message or innovation. Sequential Art, or comics as it is more commonly known, is a unique form of Art AND entertainment.
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