Jane Porter is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film. Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q. Porter. She becomes the love interest, later the wife of Tarzan and subsequently the mother of their son, Korak. She develops over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress, who must be rescued from various perils, to an educated, competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the jungles of Africa.
Early depiction by J. Allen St. John from The Beasts of Tarzan (1st edition, 1916)
O'Sullivan and Weissmuller in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
Tarzan's first appearance, in the October 1912 issue of The All-Story
Illustration by James Allen St. John for Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan in a display at an Ankara amusement park
Tarzan's agility, speed, and strength allow him to kill a leopard in 1921's The Adventures of Tarzan.