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Additional art through the years for A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS
Laurence Herndon ("Blue Book Magazine," June, 1930)
Roy G. Krenkel (Ace, 1963)
Gino D'Achille (Ballantine, 1973)
("Venomous Assault," FPG Cards, 1995)

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2020-05-16

Monsta x a.k.a phineas and ferb's characters thread

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2020-04-29

Number One and Virginia Maxon
Art by Frank Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Berni Wrightson, Mark Schultz
For much more about the art and various editions of THE MONSTER MEN, see 0756: https://t.co/EcH8SfhwXC

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2020-03-16

Herb's New Doctor ☝

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2020-03-12

has run across lots of Mark Shultz work lately. At first glance, this look like a fantasy scene, but the crater-pocked landscape below, the oblong moons above, and the six-armed opponent make it clear this is ERB's Mars.

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2020-02-12

It seems that Providence never intended that the world should be without calamities.
THE MOON MAID, Ch. 1

in 1926, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE MOON MAID, with J. Allen St. John cover art. The original hangs in the Burroughs office.

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2020-02-07

Thomas Yeates provided many wonderful illustrations for the 2009 Fall River Press edition of original Mars trilogy, which the publisher titled JOHN CARTER OF MARS. See more starting here: https://t.co/zGSD2RKUwi

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2020-01-20

Two busts I just finished for Cerberus over on ! They turned out super cool, Cerb's lions rock.

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2019-12-23

presents another S&P comic. Adam Strange is the creation of the great Gardner Fox, and owes much to ERB's John Carter. Fox and his fiction, prose and comic, are finally drawing well-deserved attention, including a biography and a huge Adam Strange omnibus.

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2019-12-07

I've decided to run two daily art posts—space opera and sword & planet. Our first entry is of Mark Schultz's "Cadalacs and Dinosaurs" comic. It's supposedly a post-apocalypse with dinosaurs, but it reminds me of ERB's Pellucidar. Exciting stories and great art.

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2019-12-05

After spending three solid months with Army, Navy, and Marine Corps men of all ranks and grades I am so damned proud of being an American that I am on the verge of bursting.
letter to daughter Joan, March 5, 1943
https://t.co/etAu7VOJfg

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2019-11-12

Preliminary sketch for Frank "The Huntress," used for the Ace editions of SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR (1964) and THE CAVE GIRL (1973): https://t.co/GSpvTErrEu

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2019-11-02

"Korak!" she cried. "Korak! My Korak! I knew that you would come. Kill him, Korak! Kill him!"
Meriem, THE SON OF TARZAN, Ch. 11

Frank preliminary and final cover art for the 1963 Ace edition of fourth novel

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2019-10-12

For much more about the art and various editions of A PRINCESS OF MARS, see 0421: https://t.co/fEP01bBcrf.
Cover artists: Ludwig Hohlwein (1925), Robert Abbett (1963), Motoichiro Takebe (1965), Bruce Pennington (1972)

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2019-10-11

Four of St. John's first-edition covers for Tarzan novels.
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION (1923)
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE (1928)
TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD (1933)
TARZAN'S QUEST (1936)
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2019-10-02

J. Allen St. John, born in Chicago in 1872, created first-edition dust-jacket art for 4 of 11 Mars novels.
THE WARLORD OF MARS (1919)
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (1922)
THE MASTER MIND OF MARS (1928)
SWORDS OF MARS (1936)
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2019-10-01

The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
THE GODS OF MARS, Ch. 7

in 1918, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover.

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2019-09-29

The nearby skeksis-headed beast is a redrawing of St. John's rather liberal interpretation of a Triceratops from ERB's "Tarzan the Terrible."

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2019-09-16

Steel fingers encircled the python just back of its head....
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE, Ch. 4

in 1928, A. C. McClurg published the first edition of eleventh novel, featuring St. John dust-jacket and interior art: https://t.co/IYx3nv4xkp.

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2019-09-16

Although Smilodon and its kin were popular antagonists in the pulps, they have rarely made appearances in film. (Here are two saber-toothed cats by the classic pulp artist J. Allen St. John, for ERB's "Pellucidar" and "Lords of the Underworld" by L. Taylor Hansen.)

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2019-08-26