Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/18/1977)

 

Korak is the Honorable Jack Clayton, son of English Lord John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, lord of the jungle.  He is the hero of a 1915/6 magazine serial and 1917 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and a 1920 silent movie serial, as well as a character in several other Tarzan stories from 1914 to 1924.  He experienced a revival in 1964 as the star of his own comic book series and as a major character in various Tarzan comic books, pages, and strips from 1966 to 1978.

As depicted in the comic books, pages, and strips, Korak has a lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick hair.  He is also an intelligent, enthusiastic teen-aged boy with excellent natural instincts and a good heart.

Korak strives to emulate his legendary father but lacks his strength, maturity and experience.  Therefore, he is both more likely to enter into dangerous situations and more vulnerable to being defeated.

As the star of his own comic book series in 1964, Korak is a capable, young hero.  His adventures were somewhat similar to those of his father Tarzan, but independent from them.  

In 1966, ABC released the TV series Batman, featuring the frequently imperiled youthful sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder.  As a fan of seeing cute, young sidekicks in trouble, I watched every episode.

Russ Manning took over the Sunday Tarzan pages in 1968.  His Korak tended to have a tall, lean, swimmer's build.  While the son of Tarzan continued to have somewhat autonomous adventures, the slender, handsome youth seemed to be getting into trouble more frequently and more easily.  Moreover, in the Sunday Tarzan pages, Korak tended to suffer from more frequent comparisons to his legendary father. 

Previously, Korak was in captivity on a boat and wearing bandages on his head.  However, with the help of a veiled red-haired woman, Korak began to remember the circumstances. The veiled red-haired woman introduces herself as Leila, priestess of the great god Krackoa, who are bred to have such allure that they are forced to wear veils to hide it.  She was kidnapped by raiders and brought to a city.  However, when they removed the veil, they started fighting among themselves over her.  Korak fought and defeated the raiders and rescued her.  However, after removing her veil, Korak immediately became obsessed with her.

The raiders discovered them in the walled garden.  During the subsequent fight, Korak was injured in the head by a sword.  However, the guardian priests of Krackoa manage to drive off the raiders and, at the behest of Leila, take Korak with her on the boat to the lake of Krackoa and bandage his head and tie him to a pole.  The boat enters into a lake in a dormant volcano with a giant squid, who turns out to be the great god Krackoa.  Leila is called to communicate with the giant squid, who strikes her, leaving her unconscious.  The boat docks at an island, where everyone else disembarks and a still unconscious Leila is carried away to be treated.  Korak escapes from the boat, ambushes a guardian priest, and finds Leila, still unconscious.  The son of Tarzan removes her veil again, becoming obsessed with her again, and revives the priestess with his kiss.  However, Krackoa is a jealous god and a very angry one too.

This week, Leila has a message from the god Krackoa but is distracted by a handsome and pouty Korak who is jealous of her dedication to her job.  Meanwhile, the guardian priests are still searching for the son of Tarzan.

 

Korak continues his leading role in this adventure.  However, the young hero turns into a pouty trophy boyfriend, whining about Leila's preoccupation with her job as priestess of the god Krackoa and not paying enough attention to him.

Manning's artwork is excellent.  A pouty, whiny Korak is still incredibly handsome, with great scenes in the bedroom with the beautiful Leila.  Unfortunately, his lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist are too often seen from the side and behind, as he is too frequently turned towards Leila.

Favorite scene:  panel c

Previous blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/11/1977)

Next blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/25/1977)

This blog is intended to raise interest in and appreciation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Korak.  To see this story in context, you may find it in Hillman's ERBzine at the following link:

https://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2136.html

This week's adventures can also be found at the following link(s):

Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/11/1977)

 

Korak is the Honorable Jack Clayton, son of English Lord John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, lord of the jungle.  He is the hero of a 1915/6 magazine serial and 1917 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and a 1920 silent movie serial, as well as a character in several other Tarzan stories from 1914 to 1924.  He experienced a revival in 1964 as the star of his own comic book series and as a major character in various Tarzan comic books, pages, and strips from 1966 to 1978.

As depicted in the comic books, pages, and strips, Korak has a lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick hair.  He is also an intelligent, enthusiastic teen-aged boy with excellent natural instincts and a good heart.

Korak strives to emulate his legendary father but lacks his strength, maturity and experience.  Therefore, he is both more likely to enter into dangerous situations and more vulnerable to being defeated.

As the star of his own comic book series in 1964, Korak is a capable, young hero.  His adventures were somewhat similar to those of his father Tarzan, but independent from them.  

In 1966, ABC released the TV series Batman, featuring the frequently imperiled youthful sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder.  As a fan of seeing cute, young sidekicks in trouble, I watched every episode.

Russ Manning took over the Sunday Tarzan pages in 1968.  His Korak tended to have a tall, lean, swimmer's build.  While the son of Tarzan continued to have somewhat autonomous adventures, the slender, handsome youth seemed to be getting into trouble more frequently and more easily.  Moreover, in the Sunday Tarzan pages, Korak tended to suffer from more frequent comparisons to his legendary father. 

Previously, Korak was in captivity on a boat and wearing bandages on his head.  However, with the help of a veiled red-haired woman, Korak began to remember the circumstances. The veiled red-haired woman introduces herself as Leila, priestess of the great god Krackoa, who are bred to have such allure that they are forced to wear veils to hide it.  She was kidnapped by raiders and brought to a city.  However, when they removed the veil, they started fighting among themselves over her.  Korak fought and defeated the raiders and rescued her.  However, after removing her veil, Korak immediately became obsessed with her.

The raiders discovered them in the walled garden.  During the subsequent fight, Korak was injured in the head by a sword.  However, the guardian priests of Krackoa manage to drive off the raiders and, at the behest of Leila, take Korak with her on the boat to the lake of Krackoa and bandage his head and tie him to a pole.  The boat enters into a lake in a dormant volcano with a giant squid, who turns out to be the great god Krackoa.  Leila is called to communicate with the giant squid, who strikes her, leaving her unconscious.  The boat docks at an island, where everyone else disembarks and a still unconscious Leila is carried away to be treated.  Korak escapes from the boat, ambushes a guardian priest, and finds Leila, still unconscious.  The son of Tarzan removes her veil again, and, becoming obsessed with her again, kisses her.

This week, Korak revives Leila with his kiss.  However, Krackoa is a jealous god and a very angry one too.

 

Korak continues his leading role in this adventure.  However, the young hero again demonstrates his youthful immaturity by continuing to be infatuated with Leila.

Manning's artwork is excellent.  The handsome Korak has plenty of great scenes in the bedroom with the beautiful Leila, with his lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick hair.

Favorite scene:  panel g

Previous blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/4/1977)

Next blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/18/1977)

This blog is intended to raise interest in and appreciation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Korak.  To see this story in context, you may find it in Hillman's ERBzine at the following link:

https://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2136.html

This week's adventures can also be found at the following link(s):

Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/4/1977)

 

Korak is the Honorable Jack Clayton, son of English Lord John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, lord of the jungle.  He is the hero of a 1915/6 magazine serial and 1917 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and a 1920 silent movie serial, as well as a character in several other Tarzan stories from 1914 to 1924.  He experienced a revival in 1964 as the star of his own comic book series and as a major character in various Tarzan comic books, pages, and strips from 1966 to 1978.

As depicted in the comic books, pages, and strips, Korak has a lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick hair.  He is also an intelligent, enthusiastic teen-aged boy with excellent natural instincts and a good heart.

Korak strives to emulate his legendary father but lacks his strength, maturity and experience.  Therefore, he is both more likely to enter into dangerous situations and more vulnerable to being defeated.

As the star of his own comic book series in 1964, Korak is a capable, young hero.  His adventures were somewhat similar to those of his father Tarzan, but independent from them.  

In 1966, ABC released the TV series Batman, featuring the frequently imperiled youthful sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder.  As a fan of seeing cute, young sidekicks in trouble, I watched every episode.

Russ Manning took over the Sunday Tarzan pages in 1968.  His Korak tended to have a tall, lean, swimmer's build.  While the son of Tarzan continued to have somewhat autonomous adventures, the slender, handsome youth seemed to be getting into trouble more frequently and more easily.  Moreover, in the Sunday Tarzan pages, Korak tended to suffer from more frequent comparisons to his legendary father. 

Previously, Korak was in captivity on a boat and wearing bandages on his head.  However, with the help of a veiled red-haired woman, Korak began to remember the circumstances. The veiled red-haired woman introduces herself as Leila, priestess of the great god Krackoa, who are bred to have such allure that they are forced to wear veils to hide it.  She was kidnapped by raiders and brought to a city.  However, when they removed the veil, they started fighting among themselves over her.  Korak fought and defeated the raiders and rescued her.  However, after removing her veil, Korak immediately became obsessed with her.

The raiders discovered them in the walled garden.  During the subsequent fight, Korak was injured in the head by a sword.  However, the guardian priests of Krackoa manage to drive off the raiders and, at the behest of Leila, take Korak with her on the boat to the lake of Krackoa and bandage his head and tie him to a pole.  The boat enters into a lake in a dormant volcano with a giant squid, who turns out to be the great god Krackoa.  Leila is called to communicate with the giant squid, who strikes her, leaving her unconscious.  The boat docks at an island, where everyone else disembarks and a still unconscious Leila is carried away to be treated.  Korak escapes from the boat, ambushes a guardian priest, and proceeds in disguise as one.

This week, Korak finds Leila, still unconscious, removes her veil again, and, becoming obsessed with her again, kisses her.

 

Korak continues his leading role in this adventure.  He again demonstrates his abilities by quickly moving to find Leila and cleverly using his disguise to gain some time alone with her.  However, he then reminds viewers of his own youthful immaturity by removing Leila's veil again and becoming immediately infatuated with her.

Manning's artwork is excellent.  Unfortunately, Korak spends most of the week in his guardian priest disguise, obscuring his youthful, athletic physique.  Fortunately, after finding Leila, he sheds his disquise, as well as his head bandage which was previously obscuring his full, thick hair.

Favorite scene:  panel f

Previous blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (11/27/1977)

Next bog:  Korak in British Tarzans (Dec. 1977) - Nemesis Tree

Next Sunday Tarzan blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/11/1977)

This blog is intended to raise interest in and appreciation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Korak.  To see this story in context, you may find it in Hillman's ERBzine at the following link:

https://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2136.html

This week's adventures can also be found at the following link(s):

Korak in British Tarzans (Dec. 1977) - Man in the Moon

 

Korak is the Honorable Jack Clayton, son of English Lord John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, lord of the jungle.  He is the hero of a 1915/6 magazine serial and 1917 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and a 1920 silent movie serial, as well as a character in several other Tarzan stories from 1914 to 1924.  He experienced a revival in 1964 as the star of his own comic book series and as a major character in various Tarzan comic books, pages, and strips from 1966 to 1978.

As depicted in the comic books, pages, and strips, Korak has a lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick hair.  He is also an intelligent, enthusiastic teen-aged boy with excellent natural instincts and a good heart.

Korak strives to emulate his legendary father but lacks his strength, maturity and experience.  Therefore, he is both more likely to enter into dangerous situations and more vulnerable to being defeated.

As the star of his own comic book series in 1964, Korak is a capable, young hero.  His adventures were somewhat similar to those of his father Tarzan, but independent from them.  

In 1966, ABC released the TV series Batman, featuring the frequently imperiled youthful sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder.  As a fan of seeing cute, young sidekicks in trouble, I watched every episode.

 

The British Tarzan weekly started in 1977.  This week's artist is the excellent Doug Wildey.  

 

Korak continues to have a lean, athletic physique, broad shoulders and thin waist, almost no clothing except for a leather loincloth over his mid-section, a cute, boyish face, and full, thick, dark hair.

 

He continues to be a strong, athletic, teen-aged jungle boy.  However, his smaller size makes him even more vulnerable to defeat to larger, more mature opponents.

He continues to be an intelligent, enthusiastic teen-aged boy with good natural instincts and a good heart. His youthful inexperience makes him vulnerable to dirty fighting techniques or seduction. His youthful enthusiasm may also lead him into trouble over good but dangerous causes or to otherwise confront dangerous opponents to prove himself.

This week, Korak starts the story by agreeing to hide a relic until two neighboring villages can decide peacefully which one will own it.  While hiding the relic, the son of Tarzan rescues a gullible loner named Harvey from a snake and befriends him.  Unfortunately, a pair of unscrupulous fortune hunters convince Harvey that they took him to the moon and threaten to strand him there unless he tells them where Korak hid the relic.  Then, a giant lizard appears killing the fortune hunters, but Korak rescues Harvey.  When the villages resort to violence over the ownership of the relic, Harvey finds it and destroys it.

 

In the beginning, Korak is apparently respected enough by both villages to hide the relic until they decide peacefully which one will own it.  He exhibits his good heart, as well as his physical prowess, by rescuing Harvey from the snake and then by befriending the gullible loner.  He then demonstrates his excellent tracking ability by finding Harvey and then rescuing him again, this time from the giant lizard.  Although he allows Harvey to destroy the relic which he was responsible for hiding, this was only after the villages resorted to violence over the ownership dispute, reminiscent of Moses smashing the tablets.  

Wildey's artwork is excellent.  Viewers have plenty of opportunity to admire Korak's lean, athletic physique and cute, boyish face, although he is not as often in trouble in this story.

Favorite scene: page 1, panel a

Previous blog:  

Korak in British Tarzans (Dec. 1977) - Nemesis Tree

Next blog:  Korak in Sunday Tarzans (12/4/1977)

Next British Tarzan blog:  

Korak in British Tarzans (Jan. 1978) - Lord of the Volcano  

This blog is intended to raise interest in and appreciation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Korak.  To see this story in context, you may find it in my Korak in British Tarzans blog at the following link:

https://britishtarzanskorak.blogspot.com/

This week's adventures can also be found at the following link(s):