1873 Tarzan Of The Apes

Date:  March 1873
Event:  Tarzan puts his inky fingers on a page in his father's diary.
Source:  "Six months old," ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.

Burne Hogarth

Date:  September 1, 1873
Event:  Lady Alice dies.
Source:  "A year to the day after her baby's birth," ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.

Joe Kubert

Date:  September 2, 1873
Event:  The last entry in Clayton's diary. The Englishman is killed by Kerchak and Kala adopts Tarzan.
Source: "The morning following her death," ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.

Burne Hogarth

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Over the past forty-five years, Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines. 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 accepted date, May 1888.

James Michael Moody also authorizes the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022, and Swordsman On Unium, published on July 15, 2024.