Marry McGeen Comments ERB-APA #6: A Reply

Your "elder son died without issue, so the title developed upon the second son" theory is definitely as possible as any other. Respectfully, I don't feel it broadens or expands the scope of the Greystoke sphere.

Jamie Chase

The grand-cestor illegitimacy theory, although ugly, offers a source for the long-mystified cab driver, John Clayton, of Sir Conan Doyle's The Hound Of Baskervilles.  This Holmes investigation occurred in October 1889 and the seven-year seasoned cab driver, as described, is definitely not Tarzan.  The illegitimacy theory clearly shows a direct connection between Burroughs and Doyle.  This is not the only tie in that occurs between these two great authors.

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

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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.