Category
page 1Literary characters introduced in 1912

Tarzan
alt=Illustration by James Allen St. John for Tarzan and the Golden Lion|thumb|upright=1.1|Illustration by J. Allen St. John|James Allen St. John for [[Tarzan and the Golden Lion]]
Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the Congo Basin by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
Fu Manchu
supervillain in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century, based off ethnic stereotypes
Professor Challenger
fictional character by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Carter of Mars
fictional character who appears in the Barsoom novels
Jane Porter
fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels
Dejah Thoris
character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian novels
Tars Tarkas
fictional character from the Barsoom franchise