John Clayton II is born the son of Lord and Lady Greystoke. After his parents die on the west coast of Africa, the infant Lord Greystoke is adopted by a great ape named Kala who raises him as her own – Tarzan!
Don Diego de la Vega, a seemingly lazy and pampered nobleman who feigns a lack of interest in the world to avoid suspicion secretly fights crime as the swashbuckling swordsman Zorro!
“I yam what I yam and that’s all what I yam. I’m Popeye the sailor man!”
In this episode John and Allen dive into the earliest days of fictional comic book and comic strip heroes. From a proto-Batman to a sailor with an affinity for spinach to the Lord of the Apes these are the characters that paved the way for the capes, cowls, and trunks that followed. Don’t miss it!
