Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #129

Dell's Tarzan #129 (April 1962) puts the Lord of the Jungle right in the thick of it — cover artist George Wilson paints a visceral scene deep in the Caverns of Kor, where a muscular Tarzan grapples bare-handed against a towering, snarling ape while a second creature closes in and a young Boy watches anxiously from the shadows. The raw physicality of Wilson's painted figures gives the confrontation real weight, capturing exactly the kind of pulse-quickening danger that made Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation an enduring adventure hero. Inside, writer Gaylord Du Bois and artist Russ Manning bring their own talents to the "Temple of Zimbabwe" — a fine pairing of cover drama and interior craft in one 1962 issue.