In 1972 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., owner of the Tarzan character, licensed it to DC Comics. Brothers of the Spear was a property owned by Western Publishing, who published the Gold Key line of comics. BROTHERS OF THE SPEAR #1 was cover dated June 1972. Another Jesse, Jesse Santos, a Philippine artist born in 1928, picked up the pen to draw the feature. The comic lasted for 18 issues, but Santos was not the artist on the entire run.
The strip from TARZAN #25 is taken from an Internet download, and BROTHERS OF THE SPEAR #1 is scanned from my copy. A month ago I posted another Jesse Santos-illustrated comic, TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS #1.
Copyright © 1951, 1972 Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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2 comments:
A really nice post today. I remember this stuff with fondness.
HGE: I am loving your Jesse Santos posts. What a beautiful draftsman! His style was completely unique. Hopefully, Dark Horse will do a prestige hard cover treatment of Brothers or Trag as they have done for Turok, Son of Stone and other Gold Key titles. -- Mykal
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