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Honoring all who have served, on this Veterans Day.
11/11/2025

Honoring all who have served, on this Veterans Day.

TARZAN® action figure coming from BigBadWorkShop, which will be presented under the Longbox Heroes Prestige brand, avail...
11/11/2025

TARZAN® action figure coming from BigBadWorkShop, which will be presented under the Longbox Heroes Prestige brand, available exclusively at BigBadToyStore!

SHIPPING UPDATE: We've shipped to customers about half of the preorders placed through our webstore for THE MONSTER MEN ...
10/22/2025

SHIPPING UPDATE: We've shipped to customers about half of the preorders placed through our webstore for THE MONSTER MEN and RETURN OF THE MONSTER MEN. We received several copies from the printer with damaged dust jackets, but we have replacement jackets arriving on Friday, so we'll continue shipping out the rest of the preorders next week. Meanwhile, we are also shipping out the remaining orders for GAUNTLETS OF MARS (some of the orders for GAUNTLETS were delayed also due to receiving imperfect copies from the printer, but we now have replacement copies in hand). In any case, books will be on the way soon to those who preordered them! Thank you for your patience! https://edgarriceburroughs.com/store/

10/04/2025

Jane Goodall was Guest of Honor at the 2012 Centennial Burroughs Bibliophiles Dum-Dum convention in Tarzana, California, where Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. President Jim Sullos presented her with a special bronze statue of Tarzan by artist and sculptor Joe DeVito.

Jane Goodall herself has often said that Tarzan influenced her childhood dreams.When she was a little girl in England, s...
10/03/2025

Jane Goodall herself has often said that Tarzan influenced her childhood dreams.

When she was a little girl in England, she read Tarzan of the Apes and was captivated by the idea of Africa and wild animals. She has joked in interviews and speeches that she was jealous of Tarzan’s Jane—because she wanted to be Tarzan’s Jane herself!

Instead of ending up in the jungle as a fictional heroine, she grew up to do the real thing:

• At age 23, she traveled to Africa.
• Soon after, Louis Leakey sent her to study wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
• Her work fulfilled that early dream inspired by Burroughs’ books, but in a far more meaningful and groundbreaking way.

So yes—Tarzan was one of the sparks that ignited her passion for Africa, animals, and a life of adventure.

Jane Goodall, the world’s preeminent chimpanzee researcher, made us rethink what it means to be human. Her death at 91 was announced yesterday.

After a childhood spent adoring Tarzan, Dr. Doolittle and her stuffed monkey doll, Goodall relocated to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, in East Africa, in early adulthood to study primates up close.

Her research revealed rich dynamics of family and community. It also chronicled the animals’ use of tools, their rain dances and organized warfare. Along the way, she became a revered figure in pop culture. Her work with chimpanzees “represents one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements,” said Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist and science historian.

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Jane Goodall was Guest of Honor at the 2012 Centennial Burroughs Bibliophiles Dum-Dum convention in Tarzana, California, where Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. President Jim Sullos presented her with a special bronze statue of Tarzan by artist and sculptor Joe DeVito.

We are very sad to hear about the passing of our friend Jane Goodall. As a young child she read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Ta...
10/01/2025

We are very sad to hear about the passing of our friend Jane Goodall. As a young child she read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books, which began her dream to travel to Africa and study the apes. Of Tarzan she once said, “I had read Tarzan and fallen in love, although he married the wrong Jane, the wretched man. I wanted to live with wild animals and write books about them. But people would say: ‘How can you do that? Africa is far away, we don’t know much about it. You don’t have any money in your family. You’re just a girl.’”

Our deep condolences to Jane Goodall’s family and many friends and admirers worldwide.

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

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From its Tarzana, California headquarters, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., administers the intellectual property of American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and enduring writers. Mr. Burroughs’ 80+ novels and 40+ short stories have been adapted into 61 feature films and 249 television episodes, and are featured in comic books, video games, apparel, and other merchandise. Through worldwide ownership of copyrights and trademarks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., has overseen every adaptation of his literary works in film, television, radio, publishing, and theatrical stage productions. The company, which licenses the copyrights and trademarks of Mr. Burroughs’ fictional heroes, including Tarzan of the Apes®, John Carter of Mars®, Carson Napier of Venus™, and many more, is owned by his heirs and operates from offices the author built in 1927 on the site of his former Tarzana ranch in the San Fernando Valley.