Dell's Tarzan
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By ttf
Posted on: Jun 10th 2008 at 5:45 PM |
Replies: 8
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I was a great fan of Dell's Tarzan comics from 47 on, especially the art work. You say the strip was done by Walsh? Art and story? Could we please have more info on him and whatever else he did?
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-11 at 07:05:05 AM
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Please refresh my memory. I don't recall using the name "Walsh" for the artist on Tarzan. Where did I say it? I'll need to correct it.
The artist on Dell's Tarzan, through most if not all of its run, was Jesse Marsh. The scripts were written by Gaylors Dubois, one of the most prolific comic book writers who ever lived. Marsh is best known for his work on Tarzan, but also did other work for Dell during the same period. I've spotted his style on some of the Movie Classics. I don't know about any non-Dell work he did. Sorry I can't help more.
Quack, Don
The artist on Dell's Tarzan, through most if not all of its run, was Jesse Marsh. The scripts were written by Gaylors Dubois, one of the most prolific comic book writers who ever lived. Marsh is best known for his work on Tarzan, but also did other work for Dell during the same period. I've spotted his style on some of the Movie Classics. I don't know about any non-Dell work he did. Sorry I can't help more.
Quack, Don
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Posted by: Rob Allen
Posted on: 2008-06-11 at 09:55:00 AM
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This link should take you to a chronological list of Jesse Marsh's credits in the Grand Comic-Book Database:
[link:www.comics.org]+Marsh&sort=chrono&Submit=Search
He seems to have been the primary Tarzan artist until the mid-1960s. I imagine that's when Russ Manning started.
[link:www.comics.org]+Marsh&sort=chrono&Submit=Search
He seems to have been the primary Tarzan artist until the mid-1960s. I imagine that's when Russ Manning started.
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Posted by: Rob Allen
Posted on: 2008-06-11 at 09:58:20 AM
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Hmmm, that link didn't come out right. Let's see if this works:
www.comics.org/search.lasso?type=credit&query=Jesse+Marsh&sort=chrono&Submit=Search
If that didn't work, and/or you can't paste the link back together, just go to www.comics.org, choose 'Any Credit' in the drop-down box, click 'Year' for a chronological sort, and enter "Jesse Marsh" in the search box.
www.comics.org/search.lasso?type=credit&query=Jesse+Marsh&sort=chrono&Submit=Search
If that didn't work, and/or you can't paste the link back together, just go to www.comics.org, choose 'Any Credit' in the drop-down box, click 'Year' for a chronological sort, and enter "Jesse Marsh" in the search box.
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-12 at 05:02:59 AM
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Let me add that The Grand Comics Database is an extremely valuable resource for a guy like me. My current copy of Overstreet's Comics Price Guide, the best comic book bibliography in print, is in tatters right now. I'm going to update it Real Soon Now (soon as I get to a comic book store, but I wrote a blog entry on how seldom that happens these days), but meanwhile, it's not as urgent to replace it as it might be, because I've got the GCD.
Quack, Don
Quack, Don
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Posted by: Rob Allen
Posted on: 2008-06-12 at 09:53:18 AM
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Don, there is another option - the Heritage Auction people have a downloadable version of the Overstreet Price Guide for (I think) $25. It's an Adobe PDF file, searchable by keyword.
The catch(es): it's installed and licensed for only one computer - you can't move it. And it won't work on Macs.
The catch(es): it's installed and licensed for only one computer - you can't move it. And it won't work on Macs.
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-13 at 06:24:19 AM
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A searchable Overstreet sounds very attractive, and I almost bought it when I first heard of it. But that single-computer business was a deal killer. If I can't use it on both of my desk machines, plus my laptop, plus my wife's machine, which is sometimes convenient to use (like when I can't get to the office because I'm grandkid-sitting). then it's no good to me. I'll just have to manage until I get a new paper one. I'm sure I'll manage -- if it gets too bad, I'll just have to make a special trip.
Quack, Don
Quack, Don
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Posted by: ttf
Posted on: 2008-06-14 at 01:35:30 PM
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My bad. Meant Marsh. I looked at some of those covers and they don't ring the bell as being the guy I remember. Perhaps he didn't do covers. He certainly did the art in the stories. I recall a number of episodes in that valley with the dinosaurs. He had a nice line, very simple and ungnarly. Not like that first Tarzan cover, which looks like a Hogarth imitation to me.
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-15 at 07:56:18 AM
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No, the covers were mostly painted by someone else. The name Morris Gollub comes to mind, but I don't know if he was the regular.
We seem to have similar taste in artwork. What you call "ungnarly", I call the bold clear line, without a lot of the "noodling" you see in a lot of comics artwork, which the artists seem to think of as adding detail, but I think of as cluttering. I didn't like Marsh's artwork when I was a kid, but back then, I had a lot of goofy taste issues -- but his clean linework was never my issue. I did grow up, tho, and came to like it a lot. I was never a big fan of J. Allen St. John, whom a lot of my contemporaries think ot as "the" Tarzan artist. Jesse Marsh drew the definitive Tarzan as far as I'm concerned.
Quack, Don
We seem to have similar taste in artwork. What you call "ungnarly", I call the bold clear line, without a lot of the "noodling" you see in a lot of comics artwork, which the artists seem to think of as adding detail, but I think of as cluttering. I didn't like Marsh's artwork when I was a kid, but back then, I had a lot of goofy taste issues -- but his clean linework was never my issue. I did grow up, tho, and came to like it a lot. I was never a big fan of J. Allen St. John, whom a lot of my contemporaries think ot as "the" Tarzan artist. Jesse Marsh drew the definitive Tarzan as far as I'm concerned.
Quack, Don
