Kreegah! This is not entirely made classical Manning touch!

The North American house Dark Horse Comics, which has embarked on the reissue of the fund "Gold Key Comics" (a house across the Atlantic now extinct), including episodes of comic books dedicated to Tarzan, writings by Gaylord DuBois and drawn by Jesse Marsh then by the immense Russ Manning, undertook the two-volume publication "hard cover" Korak episodes by DuBois and Manning dating from 1964.
Korak, "the killer" in ape language, alias Jack Clayton, is the son of Tarzan and Jane. Gold Key has decided to give the character his own series with the author devoted home of the Man-Ape, Gaylord DuBois and Russ Manning, already author / designer also Magnus since 1963 (see Magnus, Robot Fighter 1 ').
6 issues of the comic book of the era are included here, knowing that every No. thirty pages contained two stories. Neither the source of these boards or the mode of transcription adopted are specified. The colors have apparently not been touched, the paper quality equals that of periodic Sagédition through which several generations of French (-es) read Tarzan and Korak. However, the spot color and unequivocally the introductory words of Steve "The Dude" Rude (see 'Nexus Omnibus 1' and following, but also 'The Moth'), in many ways a very worthy heir of Russ Manning ( he received a price that authenticates this), is worth seeing.
Very classic stories yet suspenseful proposed by DuBois will not surprise his fans. For Korak, the target audience may be even younger than that covered by Tarzan. For the majority of episodes, Korak is wearing a sidekick in the form of Pahkut chimpanzee, which provides both gags and brute force. Korak But, like his father, is comfortable with all the animals.
Regarding the design, fans of the purest style of Russ Manning will be confused by a large number of panels that give the impression that a laborer was employed inking or worse (see the "Customer Review The most useful on Amazon.com (beta) "helpfully proposed below by Amazon.com).
Again, the total absence of a critical presentation of the work, not to mention "bonuses" in the form of essays and other drawings of the same time, leaves us open to conjecture.
In the end, it seems to me that one must be a fan of Russ Manning and / or the Tarzan comics universe "old school" to purchase a book after all rather expensive.
Curiosities: Jane appears with black hair and Tarzan is a little more bloated than the following year under the pen or the brush when Manning retrieve the post of draftsman holds the King of the Jungle. We also know the charming niece D'Arnot, the best French friend of Tarzan.
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