Joe Ferrier Comments ERB-APA #41: A Reply

In ERB-APA #41 you stated, Nobody so far seems to be able to prove you wrong - but you can't prove you are right either - where Tarzan's birth date is concerned." And to you Mr. Ferrier I say, "If you're not wrong your right." Just kidding. When I think of a Tarzan chronology I don't think of who is right or who is wrong. I think, what did ERB, the author, say, or imply? When I see another chronologist's work I don't think, are they right or wrong? What I think is, did they say what ERB, the author, said or implied? If they do not I often point out what ERB, the author, did say or implied.

ERB-APA #41

Often times I am accused of trying to correct or change someone else's view. I am not really guilty of this, however. All I do is point out what ERB, the author, said or implied. In the end, it is ERB, the author, that corrects you. I only point out what he said.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If my 1872 theories were wrong, Joe, my chronology would not run hand in hand with ERB, the author's, presented storyline. Look at Phil Farmer's chronology. Is that the Tarzan series storyline you read? Look at Alan Hanson's chronology without the lunar eclipse and The Son Of Tarzan. Is that the Tarzan series storyline you read? No, and if one can read you know it's not.

James Michael Moody

Now with an open mind if you excepted my sixteen-year 'push back theory' and then read my 1872 chronology would this be the same storyline that ERB, the author, presented? Yes, it is. If it is not you show me where I strayed. This challenge will always stand.

May 14, 1872, Clayton's Sail

Let's move on to your comments on Mooning Moody's Moon. "Jungle Tales Of Tarzan was more like a book of Aesop's fables or biblical parables - perhaps loosely based on some early events in Tarzan's youth, perhaps not - but certainly not to be taken too seriously. ERB intended Jungle Tales Of Tarzan to be  a book of in-betweens, filling the gaps in Tarzan's early manhood, only these tales are all together on a different level, primarily fictional, rather than factual."

Burne Hogarth

I do not agree with this opinion, Joe. It originates from the Phil Farmer 1888 followers who can not get Jungle Tales Of Tarzan to fit into their 1888 chronology the way ERB, the author, intended. Maybe you have been having trouble getting Jungle Tales Of Tarzan to fit into your 1888 chronology and you are borrowing their practice.

Teeka & Gazan

In my 1872 chronology, I had no trouble at all inserting Jungle Tales Of Tarzan into Tarzan Of The Apes. Jungle Tales Of Tarzan covers a time span of two years and occurs just after Kala's death and ends on November 4, 1892, the night of the lunar eclipse just before Tarzan sees his first white men. Each chapter runs exactly as written, and in the same sequence as ERB, the author wrote them. Everything worked out perfectly from Tarzan being age eighteen when he saw his first man, to Teeka's balu, Gazan, growing up at a realistic rate, down to the lunar eclipse occurring while Tarzan is twenty years old. I have presented my 1872 theories in past ERB-APA and Tarzine articles that you have. If I have strayed anywhere, small or large, show me where.

Harry Habblitiz

I have this to say about your closing comment, "Needless to say Moody is wrong." Using ERB, the author's, provided information, not your opinion, prove it.

 Sergio Cariello

About The Author

James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines, over a span of forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory).instead of the more excepted date May 1888.

James Michael Moody is also the author of the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, and Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022. Swordsman On Unium is going through the publishing process.