The Edgar Rice Burroughs canon has diverged too much, which otherwise is a good thing

Don’t expect the canon Tarzan stories to be that much of a mind screw. 

It’s pretty clear that Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc has decided that the only canon version of Tarzan is its own, which speaks volumes when even the (tasteful for today’s standards) nudity of the OG Tarzan novels gets outsized by the mind frying amount of fanservice that the canon webcomic has gotten. 

Then again, it’s okay for us fans to make many homages to ERB’s now largely public domain (almost everywhere but a few countries, and especially the USA) Tarzan novels, which makes sense as the (not fully public domain and copyright free) post-1950s to pre-2010s editions are recommended for more people in a twist of funny irony than both the pre-1950s editions and unexpurgated texts. Even so, while not without chauvinisms of the times, the in-between editions remain better off than the latter two, although they don’t tend to conform as directly to the actual insane canon-only mind screw that is the new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe standards.