Check out the "flavour word" above Zabu's behind:



And another cover lends its iconography to Ka-zar:




And DAMN, if these babies ain't cool:

If you want to read one of the original Ka-Zar pulp novels -- the first, I think -- it's at:

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Ka-Zar_1036_TOC.htm

kdb

Wow. I had no idea that Ka-Zar originated in the pulps. I also didn't know that Marvel/Timely's first usage of the character was in Marvel Comics #1.

Jim Lawless

Thanks! I have a small collection of pulps that I adore. I obtained the first ones when my Mom occupied an apartment in Burns, Oregon, for an archaeological job one summer. The previous resident had left behind an entire book collection, and I got twenty or thirty ratty, but readable pulps. Awesome stuff!

Thanks again for the linkage!

I did not know Kazar was a pulp hero...i thoguht he was a thinly veiled Tarzan rip off that the Xmen encountered...cool!

I knew the latter fact, but not the former. I thought Ka-Zar had debuted in Marvel Comics #1. I think that it was Lee and Kirby who added the dinosaur angle, though. (Can anyone confirm that?)

Other Golden Age Timely heroes included "the Angel" and "the Vision." Both were very different characters from their Marvel Age counterparts.