TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE #22

Cover shows strong gloss with vivid color and no visible fading. There is a noticeable vertical crease/wrinkle running through the upper logo area and into the sky, along with a couple of minor surface wrinkles near the top edge. Corners appear sharp with only slight blunting, and the spine shows no major stress lines visible in this image. Interior and back cover were not assessed, and the book is protected in a plastic sleeve which may obscure minor surface texture.

Tarzan Lord of the Jungle #22 is part of Marvel Comics' late-1970s license to publish adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero, a series that ran twenty-nine issues from 1977 to 1979 following the character's earlier run at DC Comics. By this point in the series' life, Marvel's Tarzan had settled into a straightforward adventure format, adapting or extending Burroughsian jungle-adventure plots for a Bronze Age readership already familiar with the character from decades of newspaper strips, novels, and film. The book carries no first appearance, origin story, or landmark creative milestone; it is a mid-run issue of a licensed property title.

As a licensed adventure comic from a era saturated with superhero output, Tarzan Lord of the Jungle never generated strong sustained collector demand outside of Burroughs completists and Tarzan specialists. Newsstand copies were produced in the ordinary print runs typical of Marvel's non-flagship titles of the period, and the series has not developed the kind of character-driven or creator-driven key-issue narrative that drives premiums in other Bronze Age books. Surviving raw copies are plentiful in the secondary market, and grading submissions for the title are comparatively rare, which keeps high-grade certified examples scarce but not especially sought after.

This issue suits Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs collectors building a complete run, general Bronze Age Marvel accumulators, and buyers assembling licensed-character archives rather than speculative investors. Reader-grade copies move steadily and inexpensively, mid-grade copies attract modest interest from series completists, and a certified 9.8 example would appeal mainly to registry builders chasing a clean high-grade slot in an otherwise overlooked series rather than to buyers seeking a marquee key.