Saturday, September 13, 2008

Letter from Philip José Farmer to DC Comics TARZAN Lettercol

Click to enlarge and read....


Phil never did reveal Tarzan's true identity in 1982. Something else to investigate... ;-)

10 comments:

The Savage Chuck said...

COOL! One of the biggest influences in my life writing a letter to one of the other biggest influences in my life!
You know how I love Joe Kubert!!!

Win Scott Eckert said...

I thought you might like that post, amigo. ;-)

Unknown said...

I enjoyed the letters. Not just PJF, but Lupoff as well. (Lupoff played an important role in introducing me to ERB

Win Scott Eckert said...

And Hulbert Burroughs and Vern Coriell... quite the Tarzanic bunch in that lettercol!

Christopher Paul Carey said...

What a terrific page of letters.

I'm not so sure Phil didn't reveal his identity, or at least that of his father, sometime in the mid-1980s. But I'm saving that for an article if there's ever a second volume of Wold Newton material I can submit it to. It might be called "Farmer's Greatest Secret," an allusion to Phil's original title to THE DARK HEART OF TIME.

Win Scott Eckert said...

CPC, I'd love to read that article, I know it would be a winner...

I have not abandoned the idea of MYTHS 2 -- not at all. In fact, i have a great set of baseline contents already mapped out (with room for a few more of course, such as "Farmer's Greatest Secret" :-) . It's just a matter of finding the time to shop it. ;-)

Brad Mengel said...

Win,
You have the best toys. Thanks for sharing this.
Brad

Win Scott Eckert said...

Glad to Brad - -and even more glad you dropped by!

John Small said...

This is one of the comics I actually have in my collection. Dad bought it for me when it originally came out, but at that age I rarely paid much attention to the letters pages in comics. Interesting to think how I might have discovered PJF even earlier if I had been...

Unknown said...

I read this letters page when it was originally published - as I have been reading and collecting Tarzan comics since way back in the Dell era.

The Myths 2 book you propose, Win, sounds great (along with CPC's addition)! I'll definitely be buying a copy!