Tarzan Weekly

As requested, here's the whole of the 1st issue of Tarzan Weekly, a comic I mentioned a while back.
It was a UK reprint that came without much fanfare in 1977, briefly turned into a monthly, and then vanished again soon after.
Well, I say it's a reprint. I'm not sure how much of this has been seen in America: The Russ Manning strips I'm guessing are Gold Key reproductions, but I seem to remember that Mark Evanier & Dan Spiegle did Korak just for overseas territories. And Akut King Of The Apes is, I reckon, by the same guy who did Hook Jaw, so god knows where that originated.
Regardless, it's all great stuff. Remember when british comics only had one colour to play with? And yes, I did manage to stay alive in the jungle with the aid of my super survival kit bag, thanks for asking.

Space Ghost

Who doesn't love Space Ghost? I mean, he's got a cool name, a great costume, a pair of annoying kid sidekicks, and a pet monkey in a mask. Because, of course, monkey's need to protect their secret identity's at all times.
Here in the UK, we never got any of the Hanna-Barbera superheroes on TV ( or if we did, I missed it ), so they always fascinate me when I come across them. It's like a whole universe of hitherto undiscovered delights.
And Space Ghost especially, because he doesn't seem to have any kind of back story, fascinates me most of all.
He hasn't had a huge comic book career, popping up here and there intermittently, but that makes each appearance special. Here's the first time he got his own book, from Don R. Christensen & Dan Spiegle:

While here's an all too short, but sweet, piece from his creator Alex Toth, with Mark Evanier, for Marvel's Hanna Barbera TV Stars:

And then, out of the time scale of this blog, there was uber-fan Steve Rude's loving one-off tribute, written again by Mark Evanier:

And finally, this mini-series from DC, by Joe Kelly & Ariel Olivetti, which a lot of purists loathed, but as I have no emotional investment in this character, and just think he's cool, loved.

As I say, out of our purview, but if any Space Ghost fans want to see more of those more recent series, we could bend the rules just this once...