Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #112

This 1959 Dell issue puts Tarzan front and center in a tense standoff with a roaring lion, the two locked in a raw contest of strength as the Lord of the Jungle braces with a spear against the animal's lunging, claws-extended attack — all set against a sweeping African savanna painted with remarkable vividness by cover artist George Wilson. The lush painted cover perfectly captures Edgar Rice Burroughs' vision of a man wholly at home in the wild, even when the wild is doing its best to push back. Inside, writer Gaylord Du Bois and artist Russ Manning take Tarzan into the mysterious "Strangers in Lost Pal-ul-don" — a title that promises adventure in one of Burroughs' most intriguing corners of the jungle world.