Otis Adelbert Kline's Jan novels

[hawkbrother]

Recently read Jan of the Jungle again,found copy of the original 40 cents Ace pb. And finally got a copy of the sequel,The much rarer Jan in India. Found one at a reasonable price, and also the other Asian lost race one Tam Son of the Tiger.
 Had been years since I read it, almost like a new story. If one likes Burroughs and Howard you'll like Kline. The oriiginal Jan of the Jungle appeared in Argosy Magazine in 1931, definite pulp era writing.
 JotJ has both Opar and Pa-Ul-Don type scenes,how much he was inspired by Burroughs, one can only speculate. 
 Also a movie based on it, one of those old serials, Call of the Savage.Found it on eBay cheap and have ordered a copy. Of course it has Jan in Africa, not South America. Seemed to be the rule with those old jungle movies, guess they thought not enough big spectacular animals in South America.

[almuric]

These are fiendishly had to find, even more so than his Martian and Venusian novels. I've found that his work tends to lack a lot of the drive and spark that Burroughs had, though I've also heard that his estate really butchered his manuscripts from their original version, so that might account for some of it. It's still interesting to read one of the earliest of ERB's imitators.

[hawkbrother]

Ace Books published the Mars and Venus books and also Maza of the Moon, and they are still widely available on used book sites.
 But not easy finding the Jan in India and Tam. The Jan I found was something published by a Fictioneer Press in 1974 which I found on Amazon, after the seller on abebooks was unable to find the copy they had listed and gave a refund.Tam is a hardcover from Avalon Books,1962, who also published other Kline novels according to the listing on the back of the jacket.
 While the first seller I tried to obtain Jan from could not supply it, they did have a Burroughs I had never read, The Man Eater, published in 1974 by Fantasy House. Its really a pamphlet with a slick cover,only 92 pages, but it was nice to obtain what surely must be one of the more difficult to find Burroughs works.
 Have also noticed that there are some omnibus collections of Kline's space novels and various short stories listed for sale.
  The lost Mars novel was called Hunters of Mars, according to a list of his works in the paperback. It was noted as unpublished, and since it was among the Kline material discarded assume we will never see it.