Tarzan

:Tarzan is also the name of a Russian 4-wheel drive vehicle manufactured by AutoVAZ.

Tarzan as literary character

Tarzan has been called one of the best-known literary characters in the world. He has appeared in films, comic books, and television programs. The Internet Movie Database lists 88 movies with Tarzan in the title between 1918 and 1999. Many of the Hollywood Tarzan films from the 1930s on featured Tarzan's chimpanzee companion Cheeta.

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Film - Comic books - Television programs - Internet Movie Database - 1918 - 1999 - Hollywood - 1930s - Cheeta

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Science fiction author Philip José Farmer wrote Tarzan Alive!, a biography of Tarzan utilizing the frame device that he was a real person. See also Wold Newton family.

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Science fiction - Philip José Farmer - Frame device - Wold Newton family

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Tarzan appears briefly as a character in the book Lust, by Geoff Ryman.

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Even though the copyright on Tarzan of the Apes has expired in the United States of America, all of Burroughs's works will remain under copyright in the European Union until 2021, and the name TARZAN is a trademark.

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Expired - United States of America - European Union - 2021 - Trademark

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Tarzana, California, where Burroughs made his home, was renamed in honor of Tarzan in 1927.

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