Tarzan of the Apes, the first book cover, 1914.
In Mark Evanier’s blog, News From Me, he writes that Danton Burroughs, the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs and “a major force in keeping that man’s work alive,” died Wednesday evening, April 30, 2008, at his home in Tarzana, California. The suburb, of course, was named for his grandfather’s legendary creation.
Danton Burroughs was 64. He was the son of John Coleman Burroughs, who was himself distinguished in the arts as a photographer and illustrator.
Burroughs had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease, but the immediate cause of death was said to have been a heart attack.
Burroughs was head of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and represented his grandfather’s literary estate in dealings with movie and TV producers adapting ERB’s works.
For those unaware, Tarzan of the Apes, is, in essence, an early work of cryptofiction. The story of an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by rather unusual apes mirrors elements found in a few alleged hominology incidents.
Click on the above image of George Haas, Loren Coleman, and Archie Buckley, San Francisco, 1975, for a larger sized version. The person behind the camera and the fourth member of this gathering was Rene’ Dahinden.
The editor and creator of the historically significant Bigfoot Bulletin, one of the first serious newsletters exchanging Sasquatch and Bigfoot information among researchers around the world, was George Haas. Haas first had been a serious collector and writer of Tarzan memorabilia and ephemera before he discovered an overlapping intrigue between Bigfoot and Tarzan that would become his passion until his death.
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