Meriem the Great

Meriem is probably the most influential recurring character in the Tarzan brand’s history due to having inspired various expies from films and other media. 

She is sassy as hell since even her otherwise troubled childhood isn’t as downright horrific as that of Korak’s own. Good on her! 

Even in recent decades, she is sometimes mistaken for being mixed race and/or less commonly (yet also mistakenly) depicted as a browner skinned mixed-race girl, because women of multiple ethnic groups love to cosplay as their favourite characters regardless of skin colour. However, there are fairer haired versions of her as well, but aren’t as commonly shown due to being much more inaccurate than the rest. 

And so the canonical Meriem, who clearly is French AF, turns out to have just two greyish eyes and slightly wavy black hair with bangs at the front. Ohh well, it’s probably a sign that she could as well be a distant cousin of her own husband Korak at this point.  

Still, we can have as many Meriem variants as we like, because all the published ERB stories are now in most public domains around the world.