Your first John Carter

[JohnCarter]

Mine was the Marvel Comics series. I collected the entire series. Then I started to read the novels. Read " A princess of Mars" and then started with "The Gods of Mars" which I never finished. I was in college then and lost interest to the fantasy genre. Now I've started with the Dynamite comics and just bought A Princess of Mars and I'm re-reading it. I might try to follow with The Gods of Mars and the rest of the novels from the series.

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[transversal]

I started out reading Burroughs' Pellucidar series and read the Barsoom books after that. I bought the Marvel comics because I liked the Gil Kane art, even though they were wearing too many clothes. Just gave those away a few years ago. Now, I like the way the Dynamite story follows the book (which the Marvel comics didn't do), and I can't wait for the story to get to "Gods of Mars" and "Warlord of Mars".

[JohnCarter]

I really loved the Marvel series. I really liked Gil Kane's artwork and then Ernie Colon's. The first Ernie Colon issue with inks by Bob Layton is one of my favorite issues artwise.

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[transversal]

Nice! Post as many of those interiors as you like! I also like those Michael Whelan book covers. He had a good run with those. Especially Thuvia.

[JohnCarter]

Nice! Post as many of those interiors as you like! I also like those Michael Whelan book covers. He had a good run with those. Especially Thuvia.

These are not mine, they come from a blog but here are some more:
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[JohnCarter]

Some of my favorite Gil Kane art:
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[white avenger]

My first exposure to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Barsoom was the Ace paperback "The Mastermind Of Mars," which wasn't about John Carter or any of the best known characters of the series, but was, instead, about a World War 1 soldier who came to Mars in the same way that Carter had. That one book, and I was hooked. That was almost 50 years ago, and I still can't resist anything pertaining to Burroughs or any of his works. I've read all of the magazines, TPB's and comic books that I could lay my hands on, beginning with the old Gold Key series and leading up to today. The upcoming movie is the fulfillment of a dream that I've had for almost half a century.

[JohnCarter]

My first exposure to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Barsoom was the Ace paperback "The Mastermind Of Mars," which wasn't about John Carter or any of the best known characters of the series, but was, instead, about a World War 1 soldier who came to Mars in the same way that Carter had. That one book, and I was hooked. That was almost 50 years ago, and I still can't resist anything pertaining to Burroughs or any of his works. I've read all of the magazines, TPB's and comic books that I could lay my hands on, beginning with the old Gold Key series and leading up to today. The upcoming movie is the fulfillment of a dream that I've had for almost half a century.

Weren't the Gold Key series done with a soldier, I've never read them but now you've made me want to check them out. I think the ERB website has online reprints.

[Ralok]

my first was . . .. the Valley of Bantoon, a small toyset that was part of the tarzan epic adventures toyline

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years later after my grandma divorced her husband she gave me a box of his books. And in there was "a princess of mars" Micheal Whelans cover

all downhill from there :P

[transversal]

I saw those when they came out. I scoffed at them due to the inconsistencies, but now I wish I'd bought some. I guess there's always Ebay:

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[John Carter]

My first John Carter was through the original trilogy. After that I got the Marvel comics from the 70's and have been hooked since. I get all the Dynamite titles and have also picked up the new Marvel adaptation.

[JohnCarter]

My first John Carter was through the original trilogy. After that I got the Marvel comics from the 70's and have been hooked since. I get all the Dynamite titles and have also picked up the new Marvel adaptation.

Dude, I was about to write to the moderator complaining that someone was impersonating me in the boards when I realized your name has a space and mine don't. :D

[John Carter]

Dude, I was about to write to the moderator complaining that someone was impersonating me in the boards when I realized your name has a space and mine don't. :D

Ha, yeah,again not trying to confuse anyone or steal the name, just a big fan and it wasn't taken.

[ChastMastr]

I think mine were originally the backup stories in DC's Tarzan and Weird Worlds.

[positronic]

My first exposure to JC was in the WEIRD WORLDS series from DC Comics in 1972. A couple of years later Ballantine Books reprinted all 10 Burroughs Mars novels with covers by Gino D'Achille, and I bought and read them all. At the same time, Ballantine issued a poster of the THUVIA cover art (with the words COME TO BARSOOM printed below the artwork) that still hangs on my wall to this day.

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Ballantine also issued a nice poster-map of Barsoom which I didn't buy, and regret it to this day...
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[JohnCarter]

My first exposure to JC was in the WEIRD WORLDS series from DC Comics in 1972. A couple of years later Ballantine Books reprinted all 10 Burroughs Mars novels with covers by Gino D'Achille, and I bought and read them all. At the same time, Ballantine issued a poster of the THUVIA cover art (with the words COME TO BARSOOM printed below the artwork) that still hangs on my wall to this day.

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Ballantine also issued a nice poster-map of Barsoom which I didn't buy, and regret it to this day...
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WOW, I want that poster!!

[positronic]

I can actually recall running from my high school during lunch hour to a nearby bookstore, and walking out with all ten Burroughs Mars paperbacks and the THUVIA poster. Can't recall if the bookstore actually had the Barsoom map poster now (or perhaps I was just short enough of cash to not be able to afford it), but for whatever reason, I didn't buy it. Couldn't find an image of the Thuvia poster on the web.

[JohnCarter]

I can actually recall running from my high school during lunch hour to a nearby bookstore, and walking out with all ten Burroughs Mars paperbacks and the THUVIA poster. Can't recall if the bookstore actually had the Barsoom map poster now (or perhaps I was just short enough of cash to not be able to afford it), but for whatever reason, I didn't buy it. Couldn't find an image of the Thuvia poster on the web.

In a perfect world they would have given it to you for free as a bonus for buying the whole collection.

[transversal]

I can actually recall running from my high school during lunch hour to a nearby bookstore, and walking out with all ten Burroughs Mars paperbacks and the THUVIA poster. Can't recall if the bookstore actually had the Barsoom map poster now (or perhaps I was just short enough of cash to not be able to afford it), but for whatever reason, I didn't buy it. Couldn't find an image of the Thuvia poster on the web.

Dude, take a picture and upload it. We all want to see. I've never heard of that poster.

[positronic]

Well, I'm rarely home when I post here (usually I'm at work), so a picture of the cover art from Ballantine's 1970s reprint of Thuvia, Maid of Mars (art by Gino D'Achille) will have to do. It's the exact same artwork from the cover (I painted out the cover text) with a banner below the art reading Come To Barsoom:

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COME TO BARSOOM

Thuvia, as painted by D'Achille, looks a little flat-chested when compared to Frazetta's Barsoomian women, but other than that, I really like this painting, especially D'Achille's conception of the banth (often referred to as the Barsoomian lion). This version is less leonine and more original.

[Greystoke]

My first John Carter was A Princess of Mars, plain and simple.

[spartan1961]

KAOR!

The first Martian book I read was the Swords of Mars. I picked it up in the library at high school because I had nothing to do. A gallant and muscular hero out to save his wife a beautiful princess...I was hooked. Afterward, I found A Princess of Mars and immediately began to read the series. The series made quite an impression on me.

When I went to basic training I took Thuvia, Maid of Mars with me to read on the flight. When we arrived the drill instructor inspected our personal items we brought with us for contraband. He picked up my copy of the book, glanced through it and smiled then said, "You won't have time to read it now." It was 8 weeks before I picked her up again. I finished the series in Denver, Colorado.

I love the DYNAMITE series. I will say the only thing that has disappointed me so far is...Thuvia of Ptarth. Her portrayal is problably more accurate than my ideal (thanks to Michael Whelan) since she is a red martian. While Dejah Thoris is THE Princess of Mars, "my princess" will always be Thuvia.

I too collected the Marvel Comics series and even have some of the hardbound cover books.