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Arrived today at Castel Crivens, TARZAN Weekly #1 from 1977, a comic I originally bought back when I was yet a teenager, though I remember little about it apart from the cover. (The colour, as you can see, is out of register on the replacement, but it's nice to have again anyway.) It was published by BYBLOS PRODUCTIONS and lasted for 20 issues as a weekly, before becoming a monthly for 5 numbered issues, followed by 11 un-numbered Specials, the last of which appeared in 1981.
Byblos also produced 3 KORAK, Son Of TARZAN Specials between '80 & '81, followed by another 6 issues of TARZAN Monthly starting in March of that year. (I've garnered this info from various sources, but any inaccuracies are no doubt my own.)
But back to the weekly - and what's this? A free super survival kit bag? Sounds great, doesn't it, until you see that it's only a small, empty, clear polythene bag. Okay, not quite empty - it contains a sheet of paper telling you what you can put in it. As a free gift, it's even worse that the paper bag (pretending to be a mask) given away in SMCW #1, which you pulled over your head to pretend you were SPIDER-MAN.
Anyway, I can no longer recall just how long I continued to buy this title, but I doubt I ever saw past issue #3. Cop a gander at some of the internal pages and say whether this is a comic you'd have bought - or even did buy - back in the day. The comments section awaits your valued input.
