Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #40 (1953) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo)	Tarzan (photo of Lex Barker)
2	Tarzan Faces Death on the Desert	comic story	24	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Jesse Marsh; inks: Jesse Marsh	Tarzan [John Clayton]; Alexander MacWhirtle; Tom Culver; Ergon; Ellen Maypool; Horace Maypool
3	Tarzan on the Trail of the Leopard Men	comic story	15	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Jesse Marsh; inks: Jesse Marsh	Tarzan [John Clayton]; Buto; Nee-Issa; leopard cultists
4	The Day of Departure	text story	2	letters: typeset
5	-	comic story	6	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Russ Manning; inks: Russ Manning	Dan-El; Natongo; Kongoni; Choka; Haroungo; Koluki; Nagopa; Han-Ool
6	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years #8 ISBN 978-1-59582-548-3	2011	On eBay ›
Brothers of the Spear Archives #1 ISBN 978-1-59582-821-7	2012	On eBay ›

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