John Carter, Warlord of Mars

Other comics featuring the character

Dell Comics released three issues of John Carter of Mars under its Four Color Comics banner. The issue numbers are 375, 437, and 488, and were released in 1952-1953. Gold Key Comics would reprint them as three issues in 1964, numbering one through three, but reprinted them out of order. Dark Horse Comics in 2010 reprinted the comics in a hard back archive edition.

John Carter appeared in DC Comics' Tarzan comics #207-209, then Weird Worlds #1-7 and Tarzan Family 62-64 in the early 1970s.

There was also a four-issue mini-series cross-over in 1996 with another of Burroughs' characters, Tarzan, in Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars from Dark Horse Comics.

In September 2002, John Carter appeared in the first issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’s second volume. He and Gullivar Jones have assembled an alliance of Martian races to combat an invading race of non-Martian aliens called "Molluscs" (the aliens from H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds). After a fierce battle, the Martian alliance successfully force the Molluscs to leave Mars, but Carter worries that they might go to Earth.

Starting in October 2010, Dynamite Entertainment began publishing a regular series entitled Warlord of Mars. The first two issues served as a prelude story, issues 3-9 adapted A Princess of Mars, and issues 10-12 were an original story with following issues alternating between adaptation and new stories. This series ceased with #35, accompanied by two out-of-numbering issues (#100 and #0), in 2014.

In 2011, Marvel published two mini-series, John Carter: A Princess of Mars, by Roger Langridge (scripts) and Filipe Andrade (art), and John Carter: World of Mars, by Peter David (scripts) and Luke Ross (art), a prequel to the Disney Movie. In 2012, Marvel published a new miniseries entitled John Carter: Gods of Mars, based on the novel the Gods of Mars, with scripts by Sam Humphries and art by Ramon Perez.

In 2014, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. initiated the publication of webcomic * Warlord of Mars* by Roy Thomas (script) and Rodolfo Pérez García (art).

Newspaper strip

In 1941, John Coleman Burroughs wrote and illustrated 69 weeks of a syndicated colour Sunday newspaper strip, John Carter of Mars, which debuted in The Chicago Sun on December 7, 1941. This debut coincided with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, resulting in the series being picked up by very few papers. The strip began with a Princess of Mars adaptation but departed from the original with episode 5. John Coleman Burroughs explained that this was done at the request of United Features Syndicate, in order to provide more action in the weekly episodes. Continuing with the Burroughs tradition of family involvement, John's wife, Jane Ralston Burroughs, helped with the backgrounds, inking, and lettering of the strip and even served as model for Dejah Thoris.

Collected editions

Dark Horse Comics have collected the Marvel series as a single black-and-white trade paperback:

• John Carter of Mars: Warlord of Mars (paperback, 632 pages, March 2011, )

They also released a collection of the DC series:

• John Carter of Mars: Weird Worlds (paperback, 112 pages, January 2011, )

as well as the earlier Dell Comics one:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars: The Jesse Marsh Years (hardcover, 120 pages, May 2010, )

Marvel Comics has released their entire series as an oversized hardcover omnibus. Unlike the Dark Horse reprint, the omnibus is in full color:

• John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus (hardcover, 632 pages, February 2012, )

References

References

1. "Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars".
2. "''Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars''".
3. Hillman, Bill. [http://www.erbzine.com/mag3/0335.html "John Coleman Burroughs,"] ERBzine vol. 0335.