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Issue Details

Issue #161
Published August 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Cobb
Notes Indicia title is "TARZAN AND THE FIRES OF TOHR, No. 161." Code number is T.O.S. #161-478. Copyright 1947 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Last Tarzan Four Color. Continues with Tarzan (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948).

Cover Details - "Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr"

Characters Tarzan
Genre jungle
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh

1 page Tarzan filler "Tarzan's Friends"

Characters Tarzan; Bolgani (gorilla); Tantor (elephant); Manu (monkey); Mangani (ape)
Synopsis Descriptions of Tarzan's animal friends.
Genre jungle
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

30 page Tarzan story "Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr"

Characters Tarzan; Paul D'Arnot; James Barton; Ruth Barton; Queen Ahtea; Mungo; Ukah
Synopsis Tarzan and his friend Lt. Paul D'Arnot find Professor James Barton and his daughter Ruth alone in the jungle after their bearers had deserted them. Tarzan and D'Arnot plan to accompany them to a native village, but the quartet is attacked by hostile natives and have to flee by canoe. A swift and unexplored river sends the canoe through a long rock tunnel and when they emerge they find themselves in the land of Queen Ahtea and the lost city of Tohr. The Queen decides that Tarzan would make a good husband and King. When Tarzan does not agree with her plans, he and his friends must escape from the Queen's dungeons.
Genre jungle
Script Robert P. Thompson
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes Story is complete, but setting is continued in Tarzan (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948).

18 page Tarzan story "Tarzan and the Black Panther"

Characters Tarzan; Muviro; Sala
Synopsis Tarzan and his friend Muviro battle the Arab slave trader Sidi Ben Yemlik, known as the Black Panther.
Genre jungle
Script Robert P. Thompson
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh

1 page filler filler "Jungle Animals"

Synopsis List of Tarzan's names for the jungle animals: Numa = lion; Pacco = zebra; Sheeta = leopard; Duro = hippopotamus; Dango = Hyena; Gimla = crocodile.
Genre animal; jungle
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

1 page Tarzan illustration "Tarzan Holds Man Aloft"

Characters Tarzan
Synopsis Tarzan holds a white hunter over his head. Battle scene from "Tarzan and the Black Panther."
Genre jungle
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes Back cover. Full-page illustration.