I agree, John, one must read the ERB books themselves to really know Tarzan. The movies are mostly way off the mark, the comics are a bit closer to the real thing, but still not like the books. Tarzan in the books was a very smart and capable man, nothing less than the brain of an educated English nobleman inside the body of a jungle athlete. He certainly didn't speak in grunts and monosyllables.

This thread, however, was launched as a celebration of the Tarzan comic magazines of the 40s, 50s, and 60s...with particular attention given to the odd Ape-English vocabulary that was used so much in those comics, and which added greatly to the sense of drama...

KREE-GAH!!!!!!! (Look out!)
GOM!!!!   (Run!)
BUNDOLO!!!!! (Kill!)
Histah the snake
Numa the lion
Tantor the elephant
Horta the warthog
N'Kima the monkey (mistakenly referred to as a chimp in my original post at the beginning of the thread)
Mangani (the Great Apes)
Bolgani (the gorilla)

Etc...

I also read all the Tarzan books by ERB when I was in my early teens, simply devoured them. They were fine adventure tales, that's for sure. The thing I liked about the comics was the visual art...and the Ape-English vocabulary! KREE-GAH!!!