Did Tarzan exist?

Question

There are so many films and cartoons based on the Tarzan character. Where does the story come from?

Answer 1

I can see what you are trying to ask, that the others (so far) are ignoring:
Was there such a person who lived in the jungle and grew up with apes?

That, I cannot answer, I'm afraid. Maybe you should post the question again with the wording I submitted, and then you may get your answer.
As for the fictional aspect of "Tarzan", there are many responses here that offer information on said character, but none I feel that will satisfy your curiosity.

Answer 2

Tarzan has been called one of the best-known literary characters in the world. He has appeared in films, comic strips, comic books, radio, and television programs. The Internet Movie Database lists 88 movies with Tarzan in the title between 1918 and 1999. Many of the Hollywood Tarzan films from the 1930s on featured Tarzan's chimpanzee companion Cheeta.

Science fiction author Philip José Farmer wrote Tarzan Alive!, a biography of Tarzan utilizing the frame device that he was a real person. See also Wold Newton family.

(Farmer makes an issue of the fact that Tarzan, as a real person and a lord, had a seat in the House of Lords in London; since the hereditary right of peers to sit in the Upper House was abolished in 1999, Tarzan must have been one of those lords who were thrown out of the British Parliament at the time but as there were 92 hereditary peers left over after those reforms it is always still possible that he might still be there)

Answer 3

There are many stories of ape's raising human children. As well as other animals doing it as well. So to say that the Character of Tarzan came form the mind of one man is just not true. You also have to remember that stories about ape's and ape-men were not really believed by outsiders, until ape's were discovered to be a real Animal not all that long ago. As for the stories about ape men they existed since man early history. But the natives of Africa, India and other countries have told and re-told those stories for centuries..........

Answer 4

Never mind Tarzan wheres Jane?

Answer 5

Tarzan of the Apes is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a rather prolific author of science fiction & fantastic fiction from the 1930's.

Answer 6

Tarzan was a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and was first featured in the October 1912 issue of the "All-Story" magazine. :)

Answer 7

I don't think Tarzan really existed but; in the first movie Tarzan was played by my grandmothers high school sweetheart, he really existed.

Answer 8

Tarzan is a completly fictional character.

Answer 9

No of course not, parts of the book were based on a persons experience in the jungle, but that's about as real as it gets, good story though

Answer 10

No. He did not exist. He was created by author Edgar Rice Burroughs.