"The End" Week: Tarzan #29!

So, we saw the penultimate issue of this series last week, although I didn't buy these issues at the same time? Huh. Well, let's see if this one's as good, although I don't know from the opener, with Tarzan and his entire supporting cast in a lifeboat. From 1979, Tarzan #29, "Adrift!" Written by Bill Mantlo, pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by P. Craig Russell.

Korak had previously rescued Tarzan and Jane from the top of the Empire State Building, and the bootlegger Blackjack arranges passage for them and Tarzan's animal companions back to Africa. The trip starts off pretty well, with everyone having a great time--well, the animals weren't loving it, but they weren't caged up, either, so it wasn't awful. But, headed for dinner, Tarzan overhears a Snidely Whiplash-looking blackmailer extorting a diplomat with scandalous letters, and puts a stop to that. But the blackmailer wants revenge, and later blows up the boiler room in a attempt to kill the diplomat that wasn't expertly executed. Tarzan goes back to get the animals, and gets them to the lifeboats as well--luckily, there appeared to be enough for everybody, for a change; even if some of the snootier passengers aren't keen about sharing with monkeys or a lion.

After two days in the lifeboats, though; they reach the African shore; conveniently near the cabin built by Tarzan's father: this was very much putting the toys back when they were done with them. A bit rushed, and not as good as the previous issue, but okay. Marvel wasn't entirely done with the ape-man, either: there was an Annual between the previous issue and this one, then two issues of Tarzan of the Apes in 1984.