My dad took us to a huge book store in Boston back in 1959. I bought the first Tarzan book that day. I was eleven. The movies were big in those days on our black and white television. I read all of them by the time I left the house at sixteen. Really good writer who dictated all his books to his secretary who typed them all up for him to submit. I added all of ERB’s titles to my Kindle library this past December and read the Tarzan titles in Dec-January. I’ll get to the Venus and Mars titles in March.

Thank you for making this video. I love Edgar Rice Burroughs' work. He's had such a huge influence on me and my work

That was a great overview. Edgar Rice Burroughs is an author that I've only sampled a bit through the years, but this kind of video makes me want to go through and read more of them. Tarzan of the Apes was a great book, and deserves its gigantic reputation.

I have always loved ERB's work

This really takes me back to elementary school! Tarzan of the Apes was the first book I read in third grade when my mom talked the librarian into letting me check out whatever books I wanted. I just couldn't put it down. I've loved Burroughs ever since. :) Love your channel!

Thanks so much. Great video. Tarzan and John Carter are two of my favorites. Keep up the good work. Cheers!!!

Great Collection! I love seeing a complete bibliography from collecters. Thanks for sharing and I'm enjoying your channel.

“Tarzania, CA”, Nation-wide Newspapers’ Comic Strips (multiple decades), All Star, Dell, Gold Key, DC, Marvel, et. al. Comic Books-all featured the adventures of Tarzan over the past Century! An Iconic Character brought to life in the 1984 film “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes!” Kudos to the prolific and “out-of-this-World” imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs! Excellent overview of his many works!

Great episode! A very comprehensive look at a writer not many of us know a lot about. Great job!

Yesterday I finished Princes of Mars. I got a copy in English from Project Gutenberg and a copy in Spanish from Freeditorial. Thanks to your recommendation. I'm looking forward to reed more of ERB's work. Greetings from Tabasco Mexico.

This was great, Mike! Awesome overview. This is actually probably one of my favorite videos that you’ve done, because I’ve been anxious to get into some Burroughs, so this was perfect. I actually saw a bunch of these old paperbacks in a used book store recently, but they were 10 bucks a pop, and I didn’t feel like dropping that much cash that day, but I’ll grab some soon. Thanks!

Well done on the presentation, Mike! I myself have read books 1--6, 10, & 21 of the Tarzan series. Quite original. Speaking of Pellucidar, I've also read At The Earth's Core, and saw the movie when was 9, in 1976. Once I read the novel, I began to understand the film a little better. I have a hardcover copy at home, which is a movie tie--in, with stills from the film. One guy I spoke to said that ERB was too macho. I disagree, and I think that Burroughs was a product of his time. Don't you think so? Thanks for a great video! 😁💙📚👍

Just start my morning with 4 book box by Michael Moorcock ELRIC with Blondel artist just stunning art and Bought box a while ago When saw you present Edgar Rice Burroughs so are jump not to long If think about it Elric are Caractere easy could been done with him ✌️🙏 Love Tarzan ❤️🇪🇺🇸🇪

Tarzan and the ant men was the last one of my 24 book collection, took 7yrs to find them all. Seems like different years of print had different covers. I even have ERB westerns

Insta subscribed to this channel worth a pot of gold sir! Your expertise is just out of this world sir and your tastes align to mine in perfection and I shall explore this channel to oblivion! I thank you fellow adventurer!

Is that you on the thumbnail MKV? 😉 Enjoyed learning about all of these books. I’ve never read any Edgar Rice Burroughs and basically only know about Tarzan. Thanks for a great video. 😊💙

I've read all of these minus three of them. One thing I see standard is honorable behavior versus ruthless, brutal behavior.

Alright! I was hoping you'd do a more in-depth coverage of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Great video.

Wonderful, very detailed info. Even though I knew a lot of this, I really enjoyed listening to it. I didn't realize Tarzan became immortal. Wow.

Great video! =) I've read about half of Burroughs' books so far and I'll try to read all of them eventually. He wrote a lot - as demonstrated by this video - and I advice readers not to read too many of them at a time because as fun as they are (if you like pulp adventures), they are extremely iterative! ;-)

Great!!! All Burroughs all the time.

I enjoyed this very much, and your collection! I also enjoy the art of Vallejo, Frazetta, etc. Keep 'em coming!

I got the wizard of Venus book lol didn't even know I had it lol different cover but it's from 1970.

Really comprehensive, detailed and fascinating overview of his whole career - excellent video - thanks for doing this.

I have a question for you. I am a longtime fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I thought I read all of his novels several times but see from your videos that a missed a bunch. I did read all the Tarzan, Mars, Venus, Pelucidar novels a few times. My question has to do with my daughter. When she was born I named her Jana, after Jana the Red Rose of Thoram, which I remember as coming from one of Burroughs novels. Jana, my daughter, was born May 20, 1962; so she just turned 60 and it has been a long time since I reread Burroughs and probably won't again. Do you recall where the Jana the red rose of Thoram (not sure about the spelling of Thoram) came from? Thanks. I always enjoy your videos and have set myself projects like yours over the years. The most recent was to read all of John Sandford's Prey series which I just recently finished -- only about 32 so it doesn't match Burroughs 80, but Sandford would come close if I read his other novels. I did read three of his Virgil Flowers novels but bogged down and went on to someone else.

In order of preference, though all are great: Pellucidar, Barsoom, Amtor, Tarzan!

Terrific overview. I must read some Burroughs. I think I'm most interested in the Apache novels, The Mucker and I am a Barbarian now, after seeing this review. I wish there was some non-fiction of his war experience, seems it doesnt exist.

I am really glad to have found your channel. Found it per coincidence, bcs like you, i am a huge Fan of Conan. You brought me to Bran Mac Mork and Kull and the other Howard stuff, and now i do watch most of the videos you posted over the years. You gave me much fun stuff that i currently read, and much more for the future. One question, if you allow, good sir: have you ever read Ian Fleming? I found a James Bond omnibus online, but that are 2500 and then some pages, so i delay that for later.... Greatings to you from Vienna, Austria, here in good old europe.

What an amazing collection you have !! My Tarzan tribute vid (Tarzan's a swinger) did ok...so Tarzan is still hip... Those books look so good, i gotta say. Great vid. Thanks MV. Gonna read some more ERB's!!

Great video personally I have been getting through the Tarzan and Mars series and so far I have been enjoying them very much.

Great episode!

Didn`t realise he had written so much, did he never sleep? I listened to `Jungle tales of Tarzan` which I liked esp the story where he has the hots for a female gorilla and comes to realise how different they are, quite sad really.

Tarzan at the Earth's Core... vs the Predator... yeah, I remember that 90s Dark Horse Comic! 😏 Isn't there an 70s movie about the Center of the Earth based on that book? About comics, I know it's not the same as the books, which I never read, but I decided to buy the Dynamite comics of John Carter & Dejah Thoris, even though it's A LOT. The setting is quite interesting. I also like the movie, very underrated, one of the few not silly movies from Disney nowadays.

I was wondering why dejah thoris was getting so much attention in comics thanks for clearing that up

I've only read "at earth's core" (that edition) but was pretty attracted to the aesthetic of pure adventure - & I love a good lost world - though even in that one novelette I felt the repetition. Another chapter, another savage encounter - but those pterodactyl overlords were creepy as &^@%. I'd like to return there, or any of his worlds, but physical copies with that sweet cover art i prefer are rare and often expensive. I have a omnibus of the first 3 mars books - albeit with a boring cover that looks like NASA's mars (they're hiding all those civilizations from us of course!) - and the first Tarzan, so I might as well try those, and make sure it's my cup of tea before collecting whole sets - especially since you say the freshness wanes. Maybe I can stand a e-book or a librivox version if I get hooked.

Thank you I was a bit unfamiliar with his work and have been trying to get some good pulp. Keep up the good work

more so than lovecraft, howard, even the MCU. we have the initials that strike wonder and joy in the hearts of fantastic stories. ERB. the fan world is called ERBdom. now, i have not read him, cause im incredibly lazy and pretentious, but i remember how ERB was praise in the 70s in the world of comics and other fan realms. the shadow over all of this.

that was fantastic. do you have any of the actual pulps.

jim starlin is doing a dejah thoris comic this year!!! get the cover art while you can

Thanks for this overview. What about The Oakdale Affair and The Rider?

His Mars books were very impressive to me when I was a teenager.

Did Burroughs write "The Oakdale Affair" or some book very similiar to that title? Also I believe there was "The Return of the Mucker". I love Burroughs. Thanks so much for this video.

Avatar was a very burroughsesque movie

Jungle Girl is interesting for having a romance between the white hero and an unambiguous brown Cambodian woman and neither invoking the tragic romance cliche, nor inexplicably giving her light features as most other pulp adventure writers of the time would have.

Did you ever read Mike Grell's Warlord comics? It kinda like John Carter on Pelucidar.

Marcia on the Doorstep?

i went to high school with richards son Ken. 6 degrees of separation right?

George lucas once said , its like poetry, it rhymes 😅

Ah, okay, Michael, okay ... Now what about it? Do you know that I have always snubbed Burroughs stuff and now I have here an Easton Press Tarzan volume sitting on my desk and that John Carter just right behind your back coming my way? (a copy, not that very book!); and you know that it is entirely your fault? ; )

My older brother used to read all the Herby books. So father would make funny names about adventures of Herby. The best was "Herby Takes A 💩 In Monticarlo". So I think Edward Rice Burroughs could have made " Tarzan Takes a 💩 In The Jungle"

I hate to be that guy but what are your opinions on some of the so-called controversy surrounding his work?

When this guy calls himself old, he calls me old. Because I'm a gen xer too.

I've come to realize several reasons y the movie failed: 1 simple thing could have doubled it's grosses call it "A Princess of Mars" y? In all the ads in no way does it appeal to women. It's as much love story as sci-fi. But nobody knew!

I'm usually pretty good at filtering out the casual racism of older times as a simple product of those times, but in reading Tarzan of the Apes last year, the character of Esmeralda kind of stopped me cold. Wow, there's some stuff there. Curious if you're aware of the fancy new hardcovers the Burroughs Society has been putting out for the Tarzan series? Feels like something you'd need on your shelves... Cheers!

Star wars was influenced by the hidden fortress and flash gordon.

Cool video as I have also enjoyed reading Tarzan. You didn't mentioned Tarzan -- the Lost Adventure which was published by Dark Horse Comics in a four issue series back with information about it at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan:_The_Lost_Adventure as I enjoyed when it came out as I am also a fan of his AT THE EARTH'S CORE books which I read prior to reading Tarzan books in my days in High School.

Witam jest 1 sierpnia 2024 miesiac temu wydano po raz pierwszy po 1939 Tarzna tom X ( u nas tytuł przetlómaczono na Tarzan wsród Ludzi - mrówek )- wlasnie czytam do tej pory bylo kilka wydań Tarzana z róznych wydawnictw ale tylko wydawano tomy od 1-9 ...ale jedno wydawnictwo zapewnilo ,ze wyda calosc od 1-24 juz wydali od 1-4 - 10 i 13 w druku 5-6 i 11 itd nie mogę sie doczekac bo 1-10 czytalem przez moje zycie po kilka razy niektóre z nich po 8-10 i wierzę temu wydawnictwu ,ze to wyda dlatego ,ze wydali juz Barsoom 1-10 , Pelucidar 1-6 , Venus 1-4 i Moon 1-3 wszystkie przeczytałem jednym tchem teraz czekam na tomy Tarzana nigdy nie tlumaczone na jezyk polski bo ich nie czytalem potrwa to do poczatku 2026 roku obym dotrwał bo zbliza sie do mnie 7 krzyzyk na kark ale twórczosc ERB jest tak uwielbiana przezemnie ,ze mnie trzyma mocno 👋👋👋✌️🤠Regi from poland 🤸🏃🤸🏃