TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE #20

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp corners; a few minor edge stress lines visible along the top and left border, and a faint vertical crease near the spine is possible but not certain from glare. No major creases, tears, or color-breaking folds are apparent, and the barcode box confirms this as a newsstand copy. Interior pages and back cover were not visible for assessment, so grading is based solely on the front cover image.

Tarzan Lord of the Jungle #20 belongs to Marvel's second wave of Tarzan licensed comics, the title that continued adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels after the original Tarzan series (launched in 1977 with John Buscema art) had worked through Tarzan of the Apes and its immediate sequel. By this January 1979 cover date the license had settled into a steady, unglamorous production rhythm, aimed at readers following the ongoing Burroughs saga rather than at newsstand browsers chasing a superhero event. It carries no first appearance, death, or origin of consequence within Marvel or ERB continuity, and its cover does not rank among the handful of Tarzan images price guides single out as classics.

The book's market profile is that of a low-demand licensed adventure title rather than a character-driven collectible. Grading population for the full run is small, since print quantities were modest and long-term retention low even by Bronze Age standards, but that scarcity has not translated into meaningful raw-market demand: worn copies move as bulk filler and mid-grade copies as reading-collection material, priced well under mainstream Marvel books from the same year. What collector interest exists comes almost entirely from Edgar Rice Burroughs completists and Marvel-license set builders working through the full 29-issue run, not from speculation on the character or the specific issue.

As a result the book trades in a narrow band across most grades, with condition mattering less to price than it would on a key title, since the floor and ceiling for raw copies sit close together. The one area where this comic can outperform expectations is a true CGC 9.8 slab: because so few copies of low-print-run licensed Bronze Age newsstand books survive in pristine condition, a 9.8 census entry commands a real, if modest, premium driven by condition rarity rather than character demand. Buyers for this issue are set completists and Tarzan/ERB specialists rather than mainstream key-issue investors, and it is best positioned in a dealer archive as a run-filler with a notable high-grade scarcity angle.