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Tarzanesque (in French: Tarzanide) is a term created by Frenchman Francis Lacassin used to describe characters in comic books inspired by Tarzan. A tarzanesque character resembles Tarzan in his physical resourcefulness, within a line of action that includes an adventurous life in the jungle, the gift of understanding and being understood by animals, contact with lost civilizations and courage combined with the ability to deal with nature. The creation of such characters may have been propitiated by the success that Tarzan had achieved since his appearance in literature in 1912, culminating with the release of daily comic strips in 1929, which paved the way for a genre that combined the allure of the unknown environment, the need for the archetypal characteristics of the hero and the popularity of access. The success of the Tarzan comic strips that appeared in 1928 boosted the creation of multiple “kings” and “jungle girls” (also called “jungle women”). In 1933, Filipinos Francisco Reyes (cartoonist) and Pedrito Reyes (comic book writer), created one of the first Tarzan copies, Kulafu. In 1934, Alex Raymond created the comic strips Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim to compete, respectively, with Buck Rogers and Tarzan. Jim, however, was not a “King of the Jungle”, but a hunter who had adventures in Asian jungles. At the beginning of the series, there was the character Zobi, the jungle boy. In 1936, Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics) published the first issue of the pulp magazine “Ka-Zar”, starring the title character, a young man named David Rand who had been raised in the Belgian Congo alongside the lion Zar… In 1937, Will Eisner and Jerry Iger created Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, one of the best known “jungle girls”. Although well known, the character was not the first to fit this archetype: in 1904 “Rima the Jungle Girl” had appeared as a character from the book Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest, written by W. H. Hudson – eight years before Tarzan. Sheena was the first “jungle girl” to wear a leopard-skin bikini, which would soon become a cliché, and was also the first heroine to get her own comic book, published by Fiction House between 1942 and 1953. ~ Tarzanesque – Wikipedia
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