[1] It satirizes Hollywood's treatment of the Tarzan character and even spoofs Burroughs' own work.
It was written at a time when Johnny Weissmuller was becoming a movie star by playing Tarzan as an illiterate character, to Burroughs' open displeasure.
Tarzan and his lion companion Jad-bal-ja discover a mad scientist with a city of talking gorillas.
To create additional havoc, a Hollywood film crew sets out to shoot a Tarzan movie in Africa and brings along an actor who is an exact double of the apeman, but is his opposite in courage and determination.
206, dated February 1972, with a script by Gaylord DuBois and art by Paul Norris, and later by DC Comics in Tarzan nos.