Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #30

Dell's 1952 adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle lord features a striking painted cover portrait of Lex Barker as Tarzan — crouched low in the dense undergrowth, a blade in hand, with colorful tropical birds taking flight around him. The lush, photo-realistic rendering gives the cover a vivid, cinematic quality that reflects the era's enthusiasm for tying comics to Hollywood. Inside, writer Gaylord Du Bois and artist Jesse Marsh bring "Tarzan Meets the Threat of Arrack" to life, a creative pairing that defined Dell's long-running series for a generation of readers.