Dr. Alexander MacWhirtle

A supporting player from the sun-drenched Dell Comics era of the 1950s, Dr. Alexander MacWhirtle made his debut in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #68, brought to life by the celebrated team of Gaylord Du Bois and Jesse Marsh. He inhabits a world populated by some of comics' most iconic jungle adventurers — Tarzan himself, John Clayton, Boy, and others — lending the stories a sense of a richly populated, adventure-filled Africa. With appearances spread across both Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the special Tarzan's Jungle Annual, MacWhirtle is a compact but genuine piece of Dell's beloved Tarzan universe, a character worth tracking down for dedicated collectors who want every corner of that classic mid-century run.