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- ERB
- What is ERB? It is the initials of EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS!! He is mostly
- remembered for the TARZAN books, but also for the MARS series and the VENUS
- series, and many individual novels. I have tried to represent some of these
- works with these tiles, to varying degrees of success in my opinion. However,
- enjoy!!! The following is an explanation of some of the more obtuse tiles.
- TILE 3 -The GREEN THARK is a Martian warrior about ten feet tall with four
- arms.
- " 5 -The U33 is the U-boat in THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
- " 9 -The VA-GA is a creature from THE MOON MAID resembling a Centaur.
- " 10 -title of a novel, 30 degrees longitude.
- " 12 -Barney Custer is the "hero" of THE MAD KING.
- " 13 -WIEROO is a flying humanoid in THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
- " 15 -HELIUM is a city in the MARS stories.
- " 17 -my initials in the alphabet ERB created for the VENUS novels.
- " 18 -a Martian aircraft.
- " 19 -as the result of a bet, Barney Custer had to wear a waste basket
- on his head for a year, or a full beard for a year.
- " 20 _refers to tile #10.
- " 22 -VEPAJA is the name of a Venusian island continent.
- " 23 -ERB wrote under the name Ed Burr early in his career.
- " 24 -CASTLE BLENTZ from THE MAD KING.
- " 25 -refers to the VENUS novels-MISSED MARS, HIT VENUS.
- " 26 -PELLUCIDAR is ERB's world at the center of the earth.
- " 28 - CARSON NAPIER of Venus
- " 30 -TARZAN AND JANES'S tree house.
- " 31 -B. Custer's car so important at the start of THE MAD KING.
- " 33 -Possible shield design for THE OUTLAW OF TORN set in early England.
- " 34 -"ERB" in the alphabet ERB created fot the VENUS novels.
- " 35 -Important charcters, TARZAN, JOHN CARTER of MARS, CARSON NAPIER of
- VENUS, and we can't forget TARZAN'S JANE.
-
- G.D. VAN NORTWICK, BEREA, OHIO, AUGUST 18.1991
- HAVE FUN!!!
-