Creator: Hal Foster

Hal Foster's Influence on Frank Frazetta

Hal Foster's Tarzan daily comic strips, from January and February 1929, were reprinted as a book, The Illustrated Tarzan Book #1, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1929. The book can be viewed at Golden Age Comic Book Stories. Frank Frazetta's art was in the first issue of Thun'da, King of the Congo, which was published in 1952.

Select panels from Tarzan and Prince Valiant are followed by panels from either Thun'da or Frazetta book covers. The panels show either similar compositions or concepts.

HANGING ON A BRANCH

Tarzan, daily 30

Tarzan and the Lost Empire

Thun'da, Gods of the Jungle, page 6

Tarzan, daily 21

Tarzan, daily 26

Tarzan, daily 43

Thun'da, Monsters from the Mists, page 1

Tarzan, daily 37

Thun'da, King of the Lost Lands, page 6

WALKING ON A BRANCH

Tarzan, daily 37

Thun'da, Monsters from the Mists, page 6

POINTING

Tarzan, daily 25

Tarzan, daily 47

Thun'da, Monsters from the Mists, page 7

LASSOED

Tarzan, daily 26

Thun'da, King of the Lost Lands, page 8

FIGHTING AN ANIMAL

Tarzan, daily 44

Thun'da, Monsters from the Mists, page 5

Tarzan, daily 25

Tarzan at the Earth's Core

MONSTER

Prince Valiant, December 25, 1937

Thun'da, Gods of the Jungle, page 5

(Frazetta's high school; next post on Tuesday: Charles Dickens)