Feb 19
Click for full imageBibliomancer’s Art Direction: Sorry Mr. Burroughs but your first Mars book didn’t sell many copies in our Southern bookstores. Perhaps you need a more menacing villain. Our new cover artist has some fresh ideas.
Published 1952
(Average: 8.30 out of 10)
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February 19th, 2014 at 10:09 am
Ye Gods, Camilla Parker-Bowles of Mars!
February 19th, 2014 at 10:21 am
“NOT so fast, honky!”
February 19th, 2014 at 10:46 am
“Now… get on-board and stop rubbing your nipple!”
February 19th, 2014 at 12:04 pm
After the divorce was finalised, Dad and that awful homewrecker ‘friend’ of his started living an alternative lifestyle I don’t understand.
February 19th, 2014 at 12:04 pm
“Something you want to tell us, Prince Adam?”
February 19th, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Prequel to Burroughs’ long-out-of-print The Thugs of Mars.
February 19th, 2014 at 1:10 pm
The shadowy figure with the gun is straight out of one of my recurring childhood nightmares. I’ve never seen this book before. Chilling.
As for the guy in the dress…I wonder if his wife knows? If he gets killed here, the funeral is going to be so awkward.
February 19th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
you should be ashamed of yourself for even implying that anything associated with mr.burroughs could be construed as rascist. why, next you’ll be telling me that modern hip-hop artists are homophobic.
and, might i say, that is the whitest black man i’ve seen, well, recently.
February 19th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
It sold poorly under its original title The Tiaras of Mars.
February 19th, 2014 at 1:37 pm
Oh dear God, what a cover….
I have read the entrie barsoom series and MAN i never pictured John Carter looking like Camilla Parker-Bowles (LOL thanks Phil). I really like the Wile E. Coyote look on his face tho, the artist should of gone the extra looney tunes mile and had Mr Carter holding up a “YIPES!” sign in his hand.
“Font Problems” is an understatement!
I always got my copies of these books from the “Sci Fi Book Club” and they always had the Frazettta covers, which were adrenaline packed and sexy.
How many shots of cognac to erase this Schoonover cover from my mind?
February 19th, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Looks more like Joan Carter of Mars, amirite, guys?
February 19th, 2014 at 1:55 pm
If this was a photo and not a painting I would swear the blonde head was photoshopped onto the body.
February 19th, 2014 at 3:17 pm
“Most people wouldn’t feel the need to use iron sights at a distance under 5 inches, but I am not taking any chances.”
February 20th, 2014 at 1:31 am
The Gads of Mars
I’m not familiar with that title…
Why is the “ship” so small? Tiny portholes and tiny railing.
February 22nd, 2014 at 7:02 pm
@Rags—judging by the facial expression, I think we need a “GULP!” somewhere in there too.
You’d think someone packing that much weaponry wouldn’t be so astonished that there’s danger afoot.
February 28th, 2014 at 11:57 am
She was the first Kan-Musu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kankore
January 25th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
I searched for God.
This is the first result.
Maybe I should have looked for God somewhere else first. 🙁
April 7th, 2015 at 8:18 pm
More like The Gods of Does Nan Know You’ve Been Raiding Her Closet Again?
At least he didn’t try to put on her heels again this time.
August 29th, 2015 at 6:51 pm
The Gods of Donald Trump’s Toupee
August 29th, 2015 at 7:21 pm
It’s Grayson Perry and a big ceramic airplane
August 31st, 2015 at 1:10 pm
“Look, I’m telling you: they specifically said the title is ‘The Goos °ł Mars'”
February 8th, 2019 at 7:24 am
Fabio vs. the black dentists?
February 8th, 2019 at 12:43 pm
The white guy is not John Carter. He’s the villain. The black guy is the buddy of John Carter, and if I remember right was taking righteous vengeance here.
Those pasty-white “therns” with their wigs were real nasties.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:23 pm
Mars needs shoes.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:45 pm
Don’t bring a cutlass, a dirk, a flintlock duelling pistol, an extra belt, and a long purse strap to a gunfight.
Do wear your best otolaryngologist’s mirror.
February 8th, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Egads of Mars
February 8th, 2019 at 6:00 pm
At the top, you can see a fold in the green screen. Disney really cut the budget for this one.
February 10th, 2019 at 12:40 am
@Mark Thompson: both the Therns and the Black Martians were bad ‘uns (basically, those running a long con were in turn being conned), the black guy was A Man Who Learns Better.