Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #2

From Dell's 1948 run of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan comes this vivid second issue, subtitled "Captives of Thunder Valley." Jesse Marsh's cover art places a confident, smiling Tarzan at the center of a lush African tableau, surrounded by a roaring lion, a gorilla, a spiraling-horned antelope, and an elephant emerging from the jungle foliage behind him — a reminder that the Lord of the Jungle commands the respect of the wild as much as he navigates it. Writer Gaylord Du Bois and artist Jesse Marsh were already crafting one of Dell's most appealing adventure series, and this striking ten-cent issue captures exactly the spirit that made their collaboration so appealing to readers of the era.