Tarzan - The Centennial Celebration
                                             (2012 - Titan Books)  

     (by Scott Tracy Griffin)   This is a large book - nearly twice what would be optimally comfortable, but a pretty valuable tome, all the same.  There's a lot of art, for book that's really supposed to be about *all* things Tarzan.  The best for me was all the paintings they gathered from the Dell / Western (Gold Key) comic-book covers, but most the other stuff also seems to have been uncollected until now (and there are a good number of drawn illustrations presented too).  Anyway, 180 pages of this 320-page book, more than half, could be said to showcase the art. 46 multiple-image pages and then another 134 that really give some single piece it's due (and half of those are gorgeous full-bleeds or bordered with an attractive pastel green).  Some are presented with the typography of the cover they were used for.  The remaining large sections of the book are synopsizes of the canon and anecdotes about those books' origins.  There are also brief overviews of Tarzan's place in movies & television, as well as Edgar Rice Burrough's life and other fiction, all intermixed with photographs, maps, charts and newspaper serial strips.  All the pieces are captioned with when & where they first appeared and artist's name.  In this compendium, the 'well-presented' artists are Robert K. Abbett (17), Neal Adams (11), Fred Arting, Rudolph Belarski, Juanita Bennett, John Coleman Burroughs (7), Studley Burroughs (2), Reed Crandall (2), Mel Crawford, Frank Frazetta** (4), Morris (Mo) Gollub (3), Burne Hogarth, Joe Jusko (3), Igor Kordey, Roy G. Krenkel (4), P. J. Monahan, C. E. Monroe (2), Clinton Pettee, Charles Ren (2), Hubert Rogers, Frank E. Schoonover, Mark Schultz, Barclay Shaw, J. Allen St. John (19), Paul Stahr, Robert Stanley, Arthur Suydam (2), John Totleben (2)*, Boris Vallejo (11)***, Dean Williams, George Wilson (25) and N. C. Wyeth.

* - Note that Totleben's works are mis-credited thoughout the book.