KORAK, SON OF TARZAN
DC Issue #47, August 1972 (bi-monthly)

Cover: Joe Kubert

1. Korak: The War Machine
Writer: Len Wein
Artist: Frank Thorne
Inker: Unknown
Pages: 18
Characters: Korak, Nkima, Wally Potter, Betsy Potter, Kurt Von Stryker, N'Tika, M'Buko

Synopsis: Korak rescues a girl, Betsy, from a crocodile while she is swimming in the river. She is from a tramp steamer that also carries her father and her fiance, a German named Von Stryker. After returning to the jungle, Korak has to immediately save a native girl from a leopard. She explains that some armed men captured all the men from her village, including her lover M'Buko. Korak sends her back and trails the men into the jungle. When he finds them he sees that it is three Nazi soldiers with some captured natives they are punishing. Korak attacks them and frees the prisoners, then continues on until he comes to the tramp steamer. Soon it arrives at a German camp, where a mining operation has begun. Unfortunately Korak is captured and taken to their commandant, who happens to be Von Stryker himself. Von Stryker explains that they have been mining Harbenite in order to build a fleet of super-zeppelin war machines. Korak is taken to work the mines and meets M'Buko. That night they stage an escape which results in a full pitched battle with the Germans. Von Stryker takes off in the zeppelin to save it from possible destruction, but Korak climbs up a mooring rope into the cabin. In the struggle, Von Stryker falls from the window, and Korak catches him with one hand by the sleeve, but the entire arm of the uniform tears off and the Nazi falls to his doom. Korak causes the zeppelin to crash and burn, while the natives have overcome the Germans. Korak walks into the jungle with the thought that he had saved two women, and saved the lover of one and killed the lover of the other.

Remarks: In this issue it is established that the Korak comic will now be taking place in the late 1930's. The artist, Frank Thorne, went on to become famous for drawing Robert E. Howard's Red Sonja.

2. Text page: The Ape Vine (art by Roy Krenkel)

3. Carson of Venus: The Girl in the Garden
Writer: Len Wein
Artist: M. W. Kaluta
Inker: unknown
Pages: 6
Characters: Carson, Duran, Tofar, Danus

Synopsis: Newly arrived on Amtor, Carson joins the inhabitants in a meal and then is taken before their Jong, or king. He is assigned to Danus, who teaches him the language and other essentials. Danus explains the convoluted theories of Amtor. One day, while exercising on his veranda, Carson sees five suspicious characters that look like thieves. He follows them and discovers that they intend to harm a beautiful girl in a nearby apartment. Coming up from behind he kills the first one with his own sword, and then faces the remainder.

Remarks: This second installment of the Venus series adapts chapter four and the first couple of pages of chapter five from Burroughs' Pirates of Venus. The artist, Michael W. Kaluta, later went on to legendary fame as the artist of The Shadow. There was no installment of Pellucidar in this issue because the magazine had been reduced back to a normal size 20 cent issue; the adaptation of At The Earth's Core was moved to a new title called Weird Worlds.

Inside back cover: The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac (Charles Atlas)