Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #45

This June 1953 Dell issue presents a striking photo cover featuring Lex Barker as Tarzan, bow in hand and alert gaze fixed on something just beyond the frame, with a long-necked prehistoric creature looming in the misty swamp behind him — a vivid promise of the lost-world adventure within. At a dime for 52 pages, it's a remarkable value snapshot of early-50s comics storytelling, with Gaylord Du Bois and Jesse Marsh bringing Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle lord to life in "Tarzan and the Haunted Plantations." The blend of photographic cover glamour and Marsh's interior linework made Dell's Tarzan one of the more visually distinctive adventure comics of its era.