Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

We of course met Tarzan in Chapter 20,
More Boys Club Serials, but let us
reintroduce him as a character with comicstrip
adventures not conceived by Edward
Rice Burroughs. To the right, a frame from
March 16, 1941.
He fought his way to the underground
channel which would lead to safety -- or
death!
Chapter 24 -- Underground Rivers in the Comics
Most typically, comics became TV shows, but in some cases, the order reversed.
"Seeds of Destruction," The Avengers
in TV Comic # 894, February 1969.
Steed and Tara King find explorer Sir
Edmund Whittington held prisoner in a
cave. As the roof begins to collapse,
the three are trapped with an
underground river before them, not a
problem when Steed constructs a
makeshift submarine from a barrel.
These are but extraordinary human heroes, however, as they lack supernatural powers. The
ones with extra endowments, the superheroes, that is, have their underground river challenges
even more taxing.
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