The second issue of RevERBerate, a fanzine devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, came out in September. The first issue came out in May 2025, and, like the first, the second one is 48 pages printed on high-quality, glossy stock, perfect-bound with cardstock covers.
It’s edited and published by Scott Tracy Griffin. You can contact him through his website to obtain a copy.
If I have any complaint, it’s that I wish they had included the issue number on the cover.
This one was put out to commemorate the sesquicentennial of ERB’s birth and the memorial set up to commemorate his service in the Seventh Cavalry in Arizona. All the articles are tied to that, looking at the few Westerns that Burroughs wrote.
This time, in addition to articles by Griffin and Gary A. Buckingham, there are ones by Alan Hanson and Patrick Quilter.
From Griffin, we get an article looking at ERB’s Apache duology, The War Chief (1927) and Apache Devil (1928). Not being a big Western fan, I never read those, so this was pretty much new to me. I really enjoyed this article. Not sure if I will seek out these novels and read them.
Buckingham takes a look at the Chiricahua Apache and an encounter with a certain British lord.
Hanson makes use of ERB’s love of horses in examining four characters from his Westerns.
And Quilter analyzes Burroughs’ first Western, The Bandit of Hell’s Bend (1924). Again, I’ve not read this, so my first introduction to this work.
Overall, it’s a very nice issue, going into an area of Burroughs I’m not familiar with, and maybe others aren’t as well. It’s a well-done issue. I have no idea when we’ll get the next one, but I assume sometime in 2026. Whatever it will be, I plan to get a copy. If you haven’t gotten either the first or second issue, do so.
I’m not a big Western fan, either, although I have enjoyed a few. But I think these may be Burroughs’ two best books. And I am a huge ERB fan.