KORAK, SON OF TARZAN
Issue #34, April 1970

Cover: George Wilson

1. Korak: The Warlord of Alopan
Writer: Gaylord Dubois
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Inker: Dan Spiegle
Pages: 20
Characters: Korak, Aguila, Paul D'Arnot, Impebac, Pierre D'Arnot, Tilba

Synopsis: Korak returns to the Waziri estates to find Paul D'Arnot waiting for Tarzan. Korak offers to help, and so D'Arnot explains that he has had a dream about his missing son that contains two volcano cone islands in the middle of a lake. Korak recognizes it as a landmark in Pal-Ul-Don, and they fly there on the back of Aguila. Fooled by the distorted depth perception of seeing miniature villages in one of the volcano cones, they crash land and the two men are knocked out. The Alopans, men about the size of a boy's action figure, carry them in and subject them to a machine that shrinks them to their size. Then they are taken before their warlord, who turns out to be D'Arnot's long lost son. Suddenly the Analopans, from a rival city in the other volcano cone, attack Alopan. Pierre and Korak pilot gliders that drop bombs upon the aggressors. A third glider pilot is mortally wounded and smashes his plane into the Analopan army. When the Analopans are driven back, Pierre and Korak return to the city with great acclaim from the populace. Pierre's fiance, Tilba, is the daughter of the leading scientist. The four of them decide to escape that night, so Tilba takes them to the laboratory (after the men overcome the guards) and they are subjected to the reverse shrinking process. Since it does not take effect for some hours, they are then able to fly gliders to the beach on the mainland shore and land. There a hyena attacks them, but they rush into a hole while Korak puts his tiny sword into its jaws. When the growing effect begins, they have to tumble back out of the hole, but Korak grows large in time to strangle the hyena.

Remarks: The Alopans are obviously a take-off of Tarzan and the Ant-Men, but they do not have any explicit connection with the previous ant-men, and they are smaller in size (although their shrinking machine technology is virtually identical. It makes one wonder if that technology is how they got to be small to begin with.) If D'Arnot was married to Helen Gregory around 1936, then Pierre could be no older than 33 or 4. Korak calls D'Arnot "Uncle Paul."

2. Text page: Across the Sahara by Bus (non-fiction reprint from #9)

3. Mabu: A New Encounter. 4 pages. Gaylord Dubois, writer; Artist unknown. Their plane crash lands when Mabu shows a pest control officer where he found a nest of locusts.

4. Jungle Tales of Tarzan- Sudden Attack (art by Mike Royer; When a lion attacks the apes, Tarzan looks to the future while the apes perceive only the immediate present.)