Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #70
In "Tarzan Guards a Hostage," Tarzan and his companions track a dangerous leopard that has taken a baby baboon hostage, leading them to a ravine where a frenzy of baboons is hurling rocks and branches at the beast below. With tension rising and the jungle alive with chaos, Tarzan must decide how to intervene—before the situation spirals beyond control. Cover by Morris Gollub and George Wilson, this 1955 Dell issue offers a pulse-pounding adventure in the heart of the wild.
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After a storm, Tarzan and Boy's canoe is washed up on an unexplored island in the Lake of Mists. They find a tribe of pygmies there who use pygmy elephants as draft animals. Tarzan clears the island of normal-sized baboons and ships them by barge to the mainland.
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