Not all the films have been great some have been notable only for being terrible.

Nearly 60 official Tarzan films have been produced, with more than 20 actors taking on the role.

The familiar film Tarzan has often been a monosyllabic brute, a far cry from the erudite version Burroughs envisioned in his novels (which informs Skarsgard's portrayal). Tarzan made the leap from novels to radio, television, stage, comics, and of course film. Along with Superman, Batman and Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan is among the most recognizable characters in the world, an icon thanks to being the first cross-media sensation. This weekend, I'll absolutely be seeing 'The Legend of Tarzan,' the jungle lord's latest cinematic installment, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. I'm writing weekly Sunday-style strips of 'The Mucker' and 'Korak the Killer' on the Edgar Rice Burroughs website, with art by Rick Leonardi, Lee Moder and Neeraj Menon. I wrote the first-ever meeting between Batman and Tarzan in a DC-Dark Horse crossover. I've been fortunate enough fulfill a childhood dream of visiting Barsoom and writing John Carter's adventures thanks to my run on Dynamite's 'John Carter: Warlord of Mars' series. I've said before that Burroughs was responsible in large part for sparking my imagination and setting me on the path to becoming a writer. My adolescence was filled with pulp heroes like Tarzan and John Carter, Conan and Doc Savage. I grew up on tales of the Lord of the Apes, both the original novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the DC comics of the era by Joe Kubert.

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