TVARZAN

TARZAN
NBC 1966-1968


TVARZAN
MAD #112, July 1967
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

There was a TV series of Tarzan. Though it's had many incarnations over the past 100 years, including parody characters, and a movie of his origin. Here is but one version.

This one starred Ron Ely as Tarzan.

Jane wasn't used in the TV series.

A native is a caricature of Godfrey Cambridge.

Jai (Manuel Padilla Jr.) was an orphan who befriended and assisted Tarzan.

MAD parodied the Tarzan we're all familiar with over the years. Here are a few examples.

MAD #114, October 1967

MAD #158, April 1973

This is what critical race theory actually is.

MAD #167, June 1974

MAD #206, April 1979

There was a 1981 version starring Bo Derek, directed by John Derek. This is from The MAD Academy Awards Show in #231, by Stan Hart and Mort Drucker.

These were among their very first parodies:

MELVIN!
MAD #2, December/January 1953
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Melvin (John) Severin

MELVIN OF THE APES!
MAD #6, August/September 1953
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Melvin (John) Severin

DON MARTIN LOOKS AT GREYSTOKE

GREYSTOKE, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (1984)
dir: Hugh Hudson

MAD #250, October 1984
w & a: Don Martin

Gags based on Greystoke, Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, about the origins of Tarzan, and how he was discovered and brought back to civilization.