ABSTRACT
Since Edgar Rice Burroughs first revealed Tarzan as a prose character in 1912, countless artists have translated the hero to the visual mediums of newspaper comics, comic books and graphic novels. Burroughs also composed the Caspak series of novellas that chronicle two expeditions to the fictional island of Caspak and, nearly sixty years later, the longtime comic artist Russ Manning created a postscript to the Caspak series that revisited Burroughs’s vision and introduced Tarzan to the island of Caspak for the first time. In this chapter I am going to look at Burroughs’s Caspak novellas, along with Manning’s Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan in The Land that Time Forgot, to understand how Manning renders Burroughs’s racial hierarchy of evolution into visual images and remodels the American gentleman for a late twentieth-century audience.
