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Email from Heff on 11-08-2010
Heaven help me, yes, I'm the only Heff Munson that turns up on Google, so I
was involved with all those scripts, in addition to doing the songs,
animations, and poetry books. I'm a better songwriter than scriptwriter.
I was just the English-Language editor on the "Mugambi" story, which was
actually written by a couple of people from Serbo-Croatia. I had been given
a chance to write a script for that one, but the story they wrote was better
than mine, and their story is my favorite of all the Tarzan projects I
worked on. The bit with Tarzan's shadow becoming his ally was pure genius,
and very much in keeping with the kind of thinking in another African folk
tale I had read years earlier, "How The Man Went To Dig Up The Sun". They
did a fantastic job, and it was the easiest and most enjoyable editing job I
had.
In those, days, I would get paid for an approved script, but it might not
see publication until much later, if at all, so I'm not entirely sure which
of my original scripts reached the public. My first editing job on a Tarzan
script was the "Beckoning" series, in which a lot of the artwork and word
balloons had already been done, but I had to rewrite the dialogue and
narrative to fit in the same amount of page space. Even so, I was surprised
at how much change I could bring to the story and characterizations even
under these constraints. It was the kind of satisfaction one experiences
from assembling a very large, irregular puzzle in which one has to re-cut
and alter many of the pieces while still leaving the basic puzzle intact.
Plus I had to find a way to somewhat legitimize the historical inaccuracy
behind Burroughs' story, "Tarzan And The Champion", which featured the
character of "One-Punch" Mullargan, the "Heavyweight Champion of the
World"...which of couse is entirely untrue (Joe Louis was the real
champion). My solution was to have One-Punch stake a spurious title claim to
a "white" heavyweight title, similar to those that were locally claimed
during the time of Jack Johnson. Not a perfect solution, but at least it
diluted the patent falsehood depicted in the Burroughs short story.
So much for anecdotes.
I send you best wishes in return.
The next day I received the info that his script was created on an Amiga.
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