On sale today from Dynamite Entertainment is The Greatest Adventure, the hardcover collection of the nine-part comic-book miniseries written by Bill Willingham (Fables) and drawn by Cezar Razek (Red Sonja: The Black Tower), in which a team of characters created by the late, great author Edgar Rice Burroughs unite to stop a cabal of mad scientists from activating a doomsday machine. Leading the charge are jungle lord Tarzan of the Apes and his wife, Jane, alongside John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and his wife, Martian princess Dejah Thoris, accompanied by a huge supporting cast of Burroughs heroes.
Speaking of tales of pulp adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs, are you familiar with the story of John Carter and Dejah Thoris? They star in Burroughs’s classic science-fantasy novel A Princess of Mars—one of the titles in our Illustrated Classics line of books.
A Princess of Mars, originally published in 1912, is the first in Burroughs’s “John Carter of Mars” ten-novel series about a post–Civil War era American who suddenly finds himself on the Red Planet, battling to stay alive against all sorts of alien threats. It served as the basis for Disney’s 2012 film adaptation, John Carter, and inspired a century’s worth of SF works, including Flash Gordon, Star Wars, and James Cameron’s Avatar. The StarWarp Concepts edition—available in both print and digital formats—features six incredible illustrations by SWC artist supreme Eliseu Gouveia (Carmilla, Lorelei: Sects and the City), and a special introduction by Mars-fiction expert John Gosling, author of Waging the War of the Worlds. Here’s the back-cover synopsis:
Captain John Carter thought his days as a fighter were over. The South had lost the Civil War, and as a soldier now without a battle to fight or a cause to believe in, he journeyed west in search of a new life.
But not even Carter could have expected that his new life would begin with his death in the Arizona desert, and his inexplicable arrival on the barren plains of the planet Mars. Or that he would find love in the eyes of the beauteous Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium.
A prisoner of the giant, green-skinned warrior race called the Tharks, Dejah Thoris is meant to be used as a pawn in the ongoing war between the Tharks and her people, the red Martians—unless the gentleman from Virginia takes sword in hand to free her…and thus unite a divided world.
Once more, John Carter has a cause to fight for—and this time, a love to win, as well….
A Princess of Mars is available in print and digital formats. Visit its product page for ordering information.
