Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years, Volume 1 (2005)

Joe Kubert's DC Tarzan of the 1970s, issues 207 to 214, in Dark Horse's 2005 hardcover The jungle hero drawn by a master of the human body in motion. Kubert wrote and drew these issues, and they go straight back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, opening with "Origin of the Ape Man" and moving on to Jungle Tales of Tarzan. The action has a raw, brushy energy that suits a hero who lives by tooth and knife. Comics historian Les Daniels ranked Kubert's scripts and art among the most authentic and effective Tarzan ever seen. Dark Horse restored the original colors for this edition. It is a 2005 hardcover, so check secondhand dealers as well as stores, and Burroughs's Africa comes with the period's colonial outlook.