Dr KARL SHUKER

Zoologist, media consultant, and science writer, Dr Karl Shuker is also one of the best known cryptozoologists in the world. He is the author of such seminal works as Mystery Cats of the World (1989), The Lost Ark: New and Rediscovered Animals of the 20th Century (1993; greatly expanded in 2012 as The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals), Dragons: A Natural History (1995), In Search of Prehistoric Survivors (1995), The Unexplained (1996), From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings (1997), Mysteries of Planet Earth (1999), The Hidden Powers of Animals (2001), The Beasts That Hide From Man (2003), Extraordinary Animals Revisited (2007), Dr Shuker's Casebook (2008), Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo: From the Pages of Fortean Times (2010), Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (2012), Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History (2013), Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture (2013), The Menagerie of Marvels (2014), A Manifestation of Monsters (2015), Here's Nessie! (2016), and what is widely considered to be his cryptozoological magnum opus, Still In Search Of Prehistoric Survivors (2016) - plus, very excitingly, his first two long-awaited, much-requested ShukerNature blog books (2019, 2020).

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Tuesday 29 March 2011

TARZAN MEETS THE MOKELE-MBEMBE.


Not content back in 1963 with successfully battling a Nandi bear, in 1986 Tarzan encountered another of Africa’s cryptozooloogical heavyweights – the mokele-mbembe!

One of my many cryptozoological correspondents, the indefatigable Håkan Lindh from Sweden, who first brought the Tarzan-Nandi bear story to my attention (see here), informed me yesterday that the Tarzan Sunday comic strip ran a 12-issue story on Tarzan’s historic meeting with the mokele-mbembe, beginning in #2842 (2 February 1986) and ending in #2855 (20 April 1986). The story’s artist was Gray Morrow, and its writer was Don Kraar.

Unlike the Nandi bear, which was referred to within the story as a chalicothere yet was drawn as being entirely ursine in appearance, the mokele-mbembe is depicted exactly as described by real-life eyewitnesses. Namely, a long-necked, long-tailed sauropod dinosaur lookalike.

As I haven’t seen the entire run of strips constituting this story, I have no information to hand concerning the plot, or even how it begins and ends. So if anyone out there could post details, I’d greatly welcome them.

4 comments:

  1. Likewise X-Men (or was it Wolverine?) had a comic story that involves a scientific expedition to locate the Mokele-Mbembe, whether that was from the 80s or 90s I don't recall but I happened upon it at a friend's once.
    -Nick

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  2. It was a storyline in the comic book "Punisher War Journal" #s 6-7 from June/July 1989. The story guest starred Wolverine who was looking to stop poachers. The Punisher takes on the alias of "Chuck Fort" to help with an investigation of Mokele-Mbembe in the Congo. It was drawn by Jim Lee and written by Carl Potts.
    -Justin

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  3. The entire strip can be seen here:

    http://www.erbzine.com/mag35/3515.html

    I'll be in Africa next month on my latest investigation in search of MM.

    John Kirk

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  4. In the original ERB novels, Tarzan went to Pellucidar (the inner hollow earth that is teeming with dinosaurs and other prehistoric life from all eras) and to an enclave in Africa with dinosaurs...

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