Tarzan - Tarzan and the Adventurers (Vol. 5) Hardcover – Illustrated, March 6, 2018

Tarzan is the king

always loved tarzan titles-these were new to me-well written, drawn,plausible story

Excellent

This was a good book, not as good as the other volumes, some of the other artist after Burne left were not quite as good, but overall a good book, great production

Why make a format change and then not utilize the extra space gained?The IDW Manning Tarzan books are as wide as this Titan book but their halve page reproduction are larger by at least 3/4 inch all around, andwhere will i store this book now as it does not fit with the others?The pages reprinted in this book should have been included in volume 4 and printed sideways, we are only talking about fifty pages and any collector would have been happy to turn the book for reading and therefore preserving the uniformity of the collection.Again whatever restoration was done did not improved over the previous four books.In my opinion, with Titan publishing these books we most likely will never see a quality restored (english text) Hogarth Tarzan edition.It just does not make much sense not to put in the effort to make a quality product when it comes to showcasing something that is visual. What is the accomplishment of this whole project? I would not complain about the quality of the reproductions if the size was equal to the original printed newspaper size as in the Dark Horse Foster Tarzan books. With the reduced size you really miss everything that made Hogarth's art so special.There is a German series of restored Tarzan strips in books that are published by arrangement with Titan Publishing Group Ltd.

I really looked forward to possessing these final strips by Hogarth, since I know that he achieved a level of art in his later work that is almost unparalleled in the world of the comic strip. Unfortunately I am as disappointed by the quality of these reproductions, as I have been for the previous 4 volumes in the series. The publishers state that these prints were made by using the best quality sources available. I don't want to make spurious accusations, but from what I have seen on the web, significantly higher quality reproductions have previously been achieved (for example, the hard-to-find Flying Buttress editions).The unusual format for this final volume, compared to the previous books in the series, is explained as an attempt by Titan to reproduce the color strips in their original full layout versions as large as possible. This is a strange claim indeed, since the aspect ratio of this format does not actually suit the aspect ratio of these original layouts...! What has happened instead is that the color strips now appear small and cramped, with quite a lot of wasted whitespace at the bottom of each page.A MUCH better result would have been achieved by simply using the same size as the previous books, but in a landscape version instead. Even using portrait, but printing landscape-layout pages inside, would have served the strips much better, and resulted in dramatic increases in the size of each color strip, to a proper full page. This would also have improved the readability of the black and white strips in the second part of the book.All in all, it looks to me like this was another wasted opportunity, essentially just a better-than-nothing option. I am still holding out hope for somebody to achieve great quality, better-sized reproductions of the Hogarth strips.

Excellent