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Mass Market. Condition: Very Good. Frazetta, Frank - Cover Art and Title Page Illustration (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. 223 pages. Ace Science Fiction Classic F-212 with 40 cent cover price. Cover art and title-page illustration by the great artist, Frank Frazetta. Very lightly concave spine. Very light wear to front cover. No other defects noted and interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. When Hollywood decided to shoot a Tarzan-type movie on location in deepest Africa, they picked a real movieland muscleman for the role of Lion Man. But all that celluloid hero knew was how to look like Tarzan, not how to act like him. So when the movie company was ripped apart by the spears of cannibals and the deviltry of a band of marauding gorillas, there was nobody in the world capable of aiding them but the real thing - Tarzan of the Apes himself. Tarzan's struggle to save the lives of stars and directors and outwit a savage assortment of fearsome foes make this one of the most exciting jungle stories Edgar Rice Burroughs ever write. This book is close to a tongue-in-cheek Tarzan story. Critics have commented that Burroughs often satirized such things as religion, social customs and the like, but it should be noted that he was not above kidding himself. In Chapter 5, the suggestion is made that the motion picture hero go out in front of the safari, and clear the way of marauding natives. But the Lion Man is quick to reply that he'd like to have the author of that story sent out instead. The Old Master must have smiled to himself as he wrote that dialogue, for through his 74 years, he never once set foot in Africa. But the crowning satire of the whole novel, even over- shadowing the fabulous episode of the gorillas, are the last couple of chapters dealing with Tarzan's visit to Hollywood, California. They concern the casting of a new Tarzan film, and one John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes himself. Upon being asked to try out for the part of Tarzan, he is considered by the casting director as not the type: Truly, Burroughs must still be chuckling about that little scene.