A distraught Clayton forgets to secure the cabin door and soon finds himself unarmed and facing the ferocious Kerchak. That is until one morning when the bay was but a year old, John found his beloved Alice dead. After one particular traumatic encounter with the apes where Alice is forced to shoot one, her mind snaps and from that day on she lived believing they were back in London. The Claytons have much to deal with when it comes to unwanted callers and the worst of this is the Great Apes of the tribe of Kerchak, and only Clayton’s “thunder stick” keeps these brutes at bay. With supplies left to them by the mutineers Clayton is able to build a nice cabin for his wife and soon-to-be-born child, and a short time late the cry of a little baby joins the cacophony of cries from the jungle. This is an important lesson for all of us because any good deed could someday save your life…or at least land you alive on a godforsaken coastline where almost every creature is bent on your destruction. The reason for their marooning, opposed to being straight-up murdered by the mutineers, is because John Clayton had saved the life of the head mutineer earlier during the voyage. Like many books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this story begins with a narrator explaining how he came across this incredible account, a story of how an English Lord by the name of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke and his wife Lady Alice were marooned on the savage coast of Africa by a group of mutineers.
There have been Many Faces of Tarzan since Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first installment back in 1912 from the silent screen with Elmo Lincoln to Johnny Weissmuller for MGM, and for decades to follow many more men donned the traditional loincloth of Tarzan, but today we will look at the original story that started it all. Stories of humans being raised by animals date as far back as the 5th Century BC with Romulus and Remus who were suckled by a she-wolf before founding Rome, and of course in the 1800s Rudyard Kipling wrote many short stories about young Mowgli who was also raised by wolves, but it wasn’t until 1912, in the pages of All-Story Magazine, did the world get one of the greatest heroes to ever grace the printed page, Tarzan of the Apes.
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