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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I really did NOT like Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan" series because it was 20+ books of the same character without a logical tie between the stories...He was a baby in the late 1700's (early 1800's??) and then he was in his mid thirties fighting in WW1??!! Wut? I mean, Tarzan is cool and all, but he's no Captain America! 
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Actually, Tarzan was born in the 1880's and his stories ran pretty much in real-time until the 30's when it became clear that the witch doctor that had rewarded him for saving his life wasn't just blowing smoke. Around that time, he came into possession of a life extension formula which is why Jane and his near relatives no longer age. (The monkey Nkima is also getting regular doses of the little pills.)
So no, he's no time-lost Steve Rogers but he is pretty much immortal.
Oh, and while about half of the Tarzan books are in fact potboiler fan-service, there actually is an extended narrative arc (and a cross-over!) that spans the other half the titles. And even in the potboilers, Burroughs took care to keep his continuity straight. Unlike 60's-70's TV shows that were designed to be watched in any random order, there is a general progression to the Tarzan books.