To illustrate the Burroughs novels, Lupoff brought into Canaveral several leading illustrators of the 1950s and 1960s, notably Reed Crandall, Frank Frazetta and Roy G. Krenkel.

Aspects of the Tarzan mystique were discussed, including the racism inherent in Tarzan and other Burroughs novels.

With a cast of 34, the show, "Disney Presents Tarzan," based on the Burroughs novel "Tarzan of the Apes," is to open in the spring at a theater to be announced.

The film contains more echoes of the original Burroughs novels than usual in a Tarzan movie, including the ape man's allusions to his origin (which follows Burroughs' version), and the use of Opar, though reducing the romantic lost city described by Burroughs to a generic native village.

The closest analog to Cheeta in the Burroughs novels is Tarzan's monkey companion Nkima, who appears in several of the later books in the series.

Lupoff also offers a recommended reading list of essential Burroughs novels that is notable for its placement of the relatively obscure Burroughs novels The War Chief and The Mucker at third and fourth place respectively.

Like thoats, in the Burroughs novel.

Like other Burroughs novels, with the partial exception of "The Place of Dead Roads," the present book has little or no consecutive narrative.

British band Soft Machine took its moniker from the Burroughs novel of the same name, as did protopunk band Dead Fingers Talk, from Hull, England; their only album was titled Storm the Reality Studios, after a quote from Nova Express.

The character of Cheeta was created for this film, never having appeared in the original Burroughs novels.