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Many people have talked about what happened with John Carter – the movie – this spring. The film was good, the marketing was weak, and the unfortunate result is that the sequels are very much in doubt.
Long before Andrew Stanton got the green light to make John Carter (of Mars) for Disney, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars was included in Mars and Beyond, aired as a Tomorrow Land episode of Disneyland on December 4, 1957. Walt Disney.
In 1979, Del Rey/Ballantine Books commissioned Michael Whelan to paint new covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars novels, succeeding Gino D’Achille’s 1973 series. Following in the footsteps of previous illustration greats like Roy G. Krenkel and Frank.
I have to credit Neal Adams for getting me to read my first Edgar Rice Burroughs’ book – Tarzan of the Apes – in 1977. Having read his DC Comics work, Neal Adams was the epitomy of what comics could.
My first encounter with Edgar Rice Burroughs was in the elementary school library in 1974. I was nine and I saw The Chessmen of Mars with a cover painted in 1973 by Gino D’Achille. The eerily casual pose by the.
In 1963, Robert K. Abbett was commissioned by Ballantine Books to paint the covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series. 1965 saw the addition of John Carter of Mars as the 11th book, and Thuvia received a new cover in.
One of the classic editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars is the first printing, published by A.C. McClurg & Co. in 1917. Frank E. Schoonover, a top illustrator of the day, painted the cover and interior plates..
I’m going to kick off the blog later today with some posts about ERB that I wrote for my personal site. Know that the blog is always available to all of us if you have something you’d like to present.