Tarzan Pin-up # 2 Tony Millionaire

Description

Tarzan (“…the Apeman”) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani “great apes”; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and then in twenty-five sequels, three authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, authorized and not.

Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson, 1956) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comics and picture books. When asked in interviews why he uses a pen name, Millionaire maintains that he does not, and that “Tony Millionaire” is his real name: “It is my legal name, and it’s been around a lot longer than I’ve been a cartoonist.” He has claimed that his unusual surname is an Old French word meaning “a person who owns a thousand serfs.” Skeptics trace the origin of the name “Tony Millionaire” to a character in an episode of the ’60s TV series I Dream of Jeannie. Millionaire has speculated that in the future he may publish some family-friendly works of his under a different moniker in order to dissociate them from his other, more ribald output.

Near mint condition.