Wich2 wrote:
Herm, "hard copy" paper comics featuring Tarzan have been printed at least as recently as 2005. And the earliest may have been the proto-comic reprinting the newpaper strip from 1929.

I understand Bob's point; but I'd agree that as "ORIGINATING in comic books" was not specified in the title of the thread, a run of that length makes Mr. Greystoke fairly a Lord of the Comics, too!
I figured that people would understand that Hopalong Cassidy, etc. did not debut in comic books, and hence my overlooking them did not represent an oversight. Plenty of media franchises have had adaptations into comic books. 

I did not want to go with a fleeting marketing sense of a term. 

Regarding Zorro, Greg Cox admitted once that he tried a little sleight of hand, a little legerdemain.

I actually had this argument regarding ZORRO a few years back. I wanted to market a line of new ZORRO novels as science fiction because Zorro was a superhero, but others at Tor argued that he was a Western hero. In the end, we sold them as mainstream fiction--and the series failed.

I'll go to my grave thinking ZORRO would have sold better if he had been shelved in the SF section along with all the other superheroes.

(Note: In these novels, Zorro faced an Aztec sorcerer, so Cox's category idea did not seem too off. I have not read Johnston's McCulley's work extensively, so I cannot say if Zorro encountered the paranormal in them.)




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