Book Review: Hal Foster’s Tarzan Years – Building A Great White Father

We could easily frame Hal Foster s 1931-1937 run of Tarzan Sunday comics merely as a pleasant preamble to his magnum opus, Prince Valiant. By his own admission, Foster was a reluctant cartoonist. The successful magazine and commercial artist carried that world s condescension towards the comic strip. Famously, he quipped in 1984 that being invited to [ ]