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A tall and supremely handsome man–a demigod, rather–was walking through the crowd. His back was marked with light brown stripes, reminiscent of those on a tiger’s skin. He drew two regal tigers, holding them by the scruff of the neck. This terrifying apparition was accompanied by these whispers:
“Rudra, the man-eater!”
“Durgane, the crusher!”
“It’s him! The son of Kali!”
In Felifax, originally published in 1929, the son of Paul Féval took on the nearly impossible task of trying to bring together two archetypes: Sir Eric Palmer, the great British detective, a successor of Sherlock Holmes, against jungle-born Felifax, a hybrid tiger-man, a literary clone of Tarzan, in the hope of generating a singular synergy.
Unlike the vast majority of Tarzan imitations, Felifax is not a feral child but something brand new and ground-breaking: the result of a biological experiment, thus forging a thematic link with comic book superheroes such as The Incredible Hulk.
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