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A mammoth collection of John Carter comics. 631 pages, with writers such as Chris Claremont, Peter Gillis, Bill Mantlo, Alan Weiss, and Marv Wolfman. Some of the episodes stay pretty close to ERB's tales while others spin wildly away. We get a lot more Dejah Thoris and Tars Tarkas in this collection than in ERB, which I liked. All in all, though, I much enjoyed the collection and thought it well worth the cost.
On the plus side? Dejah Thoris gets to kick some a%&, she’s not just a bauble that people keep stealing from John Carter. [Of course, she still gets kidnapped. A lot. Nevertheless, she’s often instrumental in her escapes, and give her a sword or a radium pistol and she gives as good as she gets.]On the down side, the stories tend to drag like a B-movie where the director has no sense for pacing, and they still suffer from ERB’s penchant for lazy writing – aka “John Carter’s dumb luck.”I shouldn’...
Pulpy and sweet like a Danish Bakery cupcake. Tried the book far too young--didn't finish it until last year, but the comics were cheap and easy. I'd read it again.
Some great art- some lackluster story lines. Some great quotes and amazing panels. Sometimes old comics are just what I need.
This may not be fair, but impossible for me not to compare with The Savage Sword of Conan.
I picked this up after watching the John Carter movie on a plane coming back from Europe. I have always been a fan of Burroughs Barsoom, and I had read the original comics many, many years ago. I wanted to re-read them, and this was an affordable way to do so.This collection is reprinted in black and white, and the lack of color enhances the artwork. The stories are well paced and the art adds to the impact.A good read. I enjoyed slipping back in time and reading these again. This is the quality...
Alas, my copy was missing a few pages (they were blank), but they were issues of the comic in which I had the originals. I primarily purchased this omnibus edition to get those two issues (one main series issue and one annual issue) that I did not have in my collection. Marvel's series is pure adventure fare, like much of their work in the era...there were good writers and artists who worked on this series and is well worth a read if you're a Burroughs "John Carter" fan, or a fan of the writers
John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus collects issues 1-28 plus annuals 1-3 of John Carter, Warlord of Mars published by Marvel in the late 1970s.I read the first three or four John Carter of Mars books sometime just after the dawn of time when I joined Goodreads. I liked the concepts well enough but wasn't a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs' prose. I've had my eye on this omnibus for years and finally found one cheap enough to justify buying it.Marvel put a lot of heavy hitters on this book. Marv Wol...
As child this never failed to thrill. Even now it still gives that happy buzz...Pure bliss.
John Carter, Warlord of Mars, is one of the great pulp adventure properties of all time, eclipsed only by the Shadow, Doc Savage and most definitely by his literary brother Tarzan of the Apes. The series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the epitome of fantasy wish fulfillment: a young man (sort of) feels out of touch and out of place in his contemporary world, and he longs for a world that accepts him as the gallant hero hidden inside. Lo and behold, he finds his body magically whisked to the world of...
This is a gigantic collection of John Carter comics, and it's....OK. Some of the art is pretty good. Some of it is meh. Most of the writing is in that old Stan Lee Marvel style, where there's WAY too much unnecessary dialog and caption. Some of it is based on Burroughs' novels. Other parts are 'original.' Nothing is all that great. I can't really recommend it. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm the target audience, and I had a hard time making my way through it.
This massive collection of Marvel comics adapting the John Carter of Mars characters. I am not clear having only read the first John Carter book, but I think it is mostly stories created by the comic writers usually occurring in the period of his first visit to Mars which the first book sort of skims over. Many strange and wonderful creatures and machines are on display that our main characters have to contend with.The stories of swashbuckling adventure are evocatively told in this comic, very t...
The first stories were amazing, when Claremont took over writing, it became tiresome. Having an overarching story that never seemed to end, 50/50
This omnibus is definitely worth the price tag! Marvel's John Carter series was a fun comic book, but one I'd never think to ever see reprinted. The entirety of the series featured adaptations of two Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, along with some shorter tales. Lots of great artwork, from Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum, Mike Vosburg, Ernie Colon and many more. Well over 30 issues of sci-fi goodness reprinted in full color!
The comic books were definitely a good subversion from the first five novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They at some points seemed as revisions of different stories in the novels revamped with John Carter and Dejah Thoris as the main characters.
The characters of Edgar Rice Burroughs in a comic book from the 1970's! I suppose there could be someone who wouldn't like it. Just kidding.
This is not a graphic novel version of Edgar Rice Bourrough's novels. Rather they are Marvel's exploration of events that may have occurred between paragraphs 2 and 4 of chapter 27 or so, where a 9 year gap is indicated. (Per notes by the creator). It was a great pulpy read and nice brain rest after the heavy duty read of the Icelandic Sagas, and fit the bill of being a large hardcover, perfect lockdown reading.
another lets fight through the whole book story
While this became a slightly less faithful comic series adaptation of the Barsoom novels after Marv Wolfman used all the material in those books, I think this collection will hit a homerun with the same audience that enjoyed the novels because it successfully achieves the same kind of otherworldly, Sci-Fi essence that ERB achieved with the books. This collected edition is usually $100.00 so I wouldn't recommend it for those who aren't serious hard-core fans of John Carter or who aren't collector...
Collecting Marvel comics John Carter comic series. Nice art and some decent sci-fi swashbuckling adventure. The writing tends to lead to a ton of captions per page, trying to ape Burroughs style, which can slow the pace to a crawl, but otherwise a fun read.