John Carter from Mars

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John Carter from Mars
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The saga of John Carter from Mars or the Barsoom or Mars cycle is one of the best known and most popular science fiction book series by Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs . In the United States, the 28-volume comic series "John Carter - Warlord of Mars" from Marvel Comics enjoyed great popularity. Three yearbooks were also published there. The complete works have been available as B / W paperback for some time. Since 2010, comics have been appearing again on Dynamite under the title "Warlord of Mars". So far, not all comics have been translated into German.

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John Carter's family on Mars
An aerial fight on Barsoom
Czech book cover of Thuvia, the girl from Mars
Green Martian ( Thark ) from John Carter vom Mars

John Carter is the hero of a fifteen story series that is now available in full in eleven books. After the American Civil War , Captain John Carter and a friend go looking for gold. Around 1866 they made their way to Arizona, where they were ambushed by the Apaches . While his friend is killed, John Carter is able to hide in a mysterious cave, where he falls into a form of tetanus. When he comes to, he finds himself in a strange, bizarre landscape. He quickly realizes that he can no longer be on earth. A mystical force has transported it to Mars , which its inhabitants call Barsoom. He soon meets green Martians , huge four-armed monsters, but thanks to the planet's lower gravity, he is superior to them. John Carter realizes that the planet is a dying one. Everywhere he finds remnants of old high cultures that were not created by the current residents. The seas are partially dried up and the oxygen has to be generated artificially. Nevertheless there is a diverse life. In addition to the green, there are also red, white, black and yellow Martians who live in constant enmity with one another and fight each other. Soon afterward, John Carter meets Princess Dejah Thoris, a representative of the red people who are most similar to humans. Together with her and other new friends, he explores Mars, experiencing all sorts of fantastic and exciting adventures.

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Novels
  • 1 Under the Moons of Mars (6 parts in: The All-Story, February 1912  ff .; also: A Princess of Mars , 1917; also: Carter of the Red Planet , 1929; also: The Princess of Mars , 2006)
  • 2 The Gods of Mars (5 parts in: The All-Story, January 1913  ff .; also: Gods of Mars , 1975)
    • English: The gods of Mars. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams John Carter # 2, 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0007-5 . Also called: The gods of Mars. Translated by Franziska Willnow. Kranichborn, 1996, ISBN 3-930040-42-5 .
  • 3 The Warlord of Mars (4 parts in: The All-Story, December 1913  ff .; also: Warlord of Mars , 1973; also: Warlords of Mars , 2011)
    • English: The warlord of Mars. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams John Carter # 3, 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0019-9 .
  • 4 Thuvia, Maid of Mars (3 parts in: All-Story Weekly, April 8, 1916  ff .; also: Thuvia - Maid of Mars , 1982)
    • English: Thuvia, the girl from Mars. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams John Carter # 4, 1973, ISBN 3-8071-0034-2 . Also called: Thuvia: The Girl from Mars. Kranichborn, 1996, ISBN 3-930040-44-1 .
  • 5 Chessmen of Mars (7 parts in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 18, 1922  ff .; also: The Chessmen of Mars )
  • 6 The Master Mind of Mars (1927; also: The Mastermind of Mars , 1963)
  • 7 A Fighting Man of Mars (6 parts in: The Blue Book Magazine, April 1930  ff.)
  • 8 Swords of Mars (6 parts in: The Blue Book Magazine, November 1934  ff.)
  • 9 Synthetic Men of Mars (1938; also: The Synthetic Men of Mars , 1939)
  • 10 Llana of Gathol (1948)
  • 11 John Carter of Mars: The Collection (1941)
Short stories and miscellaneous
  • Glossary (1920, in: Edgar Rice Burroughs: Thuvia, Maid of Mars ; also: A Glossary of Names and Terms Used in the Martian Books , 1962; also: A Glossary of Names and Terms Used in ERB's Martian Books , 2012; also: A Glossary of Names and Terms Used in the Martin Books , 1963)
  • John Carter of Mars (1940; with John Coleman Burroughs)
  • Black Pirates of Barsoom (in: Amazing Stories, June 1941 )
  • The City of Mummies (in: Amazing Stories, March 1941 )
  • Invisible Men of Mars (in: Amazing Stories, October 1941 )
  • John Carter and the Giant of Mars (in: Amazing Stories, January 1941 ; also: John Carter and the Giants of Mars , 2007)
  • Yellow Men of Mars (in: Amazing Stories, August 1941 )
  • Skeleton Men of Jupiter (in: Amazing Stories, February 1943 )
  • Three Martian Novels (collective edition from 4–6; 1962; also: Return to Mars , 2004; also: The Mars Trilogy 2 , 2012)
  • A Princess of Mars and A Fighting Man of Mars (Collective Edition of 1 and 7; 1964)
Collective editions
  • Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs (collective edition from 1–4; 1981)
  • Under the Moons of Mars: The Tales of Barsoom (collective edition from 1–3; 2003; also: The Martian Tales Trilogy , 2004; also: A Princess of Mars / The Gods of Mars / The Warlord of Mars , 2009; also: Mars Trilogy , 2012; also: John Carter of Mars Omnibus 1 , 2012; also: The Mars Trilogy , 2012; also: The Original John Carter Trilogy , 2013; also: The John Carter Trilogy , 2013; also: John Carter of Mars Volume 1 , 0000; also: John Carter of Mars: Vol. 1: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars , 2012)
  • Bulk Burroughs: Adventures on Mars (collective edition from 1–5; 2004; also: John Carter of Mars: The Collection , 2010; also: The Mars Chronicles , 2011; also: John Carter on Mars Collection , 2011; also: John Carter of Mars: The First Five Novels , 2013; also: Under the Moons of Mars: The Tales of Barsoom , 2012)
  • Men of Mars (collective edition from 7-9; 2006)
  • More Martian Tales (collective edition of 4 and 5; 2006; also: John Carter of Mars: Vol. 2 , 2012; also: The Children of Mars , 2013)
  • Tales of Mars (collective edition of 10 and 11; 2007)
  • Barsoom Series Complete Collection: 11 Books (13 Novels) of John Carter Fully Illustrated (2012)
  • John Carter: The Movie Novelization; Also Includes A Princess of Mars (collective edition of 2 novels; 2012; with Stuart Moore (Ed.))
  • Under the Moons of Mars and Carter of the Red Planet (2012)

John Carter of Mars (Leonaur):

  • John Carter of Mars Volume 1 (Collective Edition of 1 and 2; 2006)
  • John Carter of Mars Volume 2 (Collective Edition of 3 and 4; 2006)
  • John Carter of Mars Volume 3 (collective edition of 5 and 6; 2007)
  • John Carter of Mars Volume 4 (Collective Edition of 7 and 8; 2007)
  • John Carter of Mars Volume 5 (collective edition of 9 and 10; 2007)
  • John Carter of Mars Volume 6 (2 Stories, 2007)

The Collected John Carter of Mars (Disney Editions):

  • The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 1 ( Collected Edition from 1–3, 2012)
  • The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 2 (collective edition from 4–7; 2012)
  • The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 3 (collective edition 8–11; 2012)

Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collective Editions:

  • 1 The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars (collective edition of 2 and 3; 1971)
  • 2 Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars (collective edition of 4 and 5; 1973)
  • 3 The Master Mind of Mars and A Fighting Man of Mars (collective edition of 6 and 7; 1974)
  • 4 Swords of Mars and Synthetic Men of Mars (collective edition of 8 and 9; 1975)
  • 5 Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars (collective edition of 10 and 11; 1977)

Film adaptations

In 2009, a film adaptation called Princess of Mars was released by The Asylum , a studio known for cheap copies of well-known blockbusters (" Mockbusters ") . In this case, elements from James Cameron's avatar were used to translate the story of John Carter, which was slightly based on the book.

In March 2012 Disney brought a film adaptation with the original title John Carter - Between Two Worlds in the cinemas.

Trivia

  • The fifth volume describes the chess variant Jetan , which is played on Mars. The game can be reconstructed from the description in the book and turns out to be a well playable chess variant.
  • Elements from John Carter of Mars can also be found in other well-known science fiction stories. A selection is listed below:
    • The film Avatar - Departure for Pandora was inspired by many elements from the John Carter universe, such as the animal world, but also some rough features of the plot. For example, Jake Sully is given a second body as an avatar. As James Cameron said in 2009: "With Avatar, I wanted to make a classic adventure film, like Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'John Carter of Mars'"
    • In Tad Williams ' Otherland cycle, the main character Paul Jonas travels through various “worlds” within a gigantic VR network, including a version of Mars clearly based on Burroughs in the second volume.
    • The Star Wars saga , created by George Lucas and inspired by Flash Gordon, contains many elements from John Carter. So are the titles like Jed (= king), Jeddak (= emperor) and Jeddara (= empress) or the visuals from Burroughs books. Also having to fight against monstrous beings chained, which is told in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones , the film owes to John Carter.

Imitations

A literary appreciation of the John Carter stories created Michael Moorcock , who wrote a very similar series with his Michael Kane trilogy, which he himself regards as an appreciation for Burroughs.

John Carter and Mars, as Burroughs describes him, also play a role at the beginning of the second volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jetan - Martian Chess by Jean-Louis Cazaux (English)
  2. ↑ filmstarts.de: "John Carter" Vs. "Star Wars" Vs. "Avatar": Who is actually stealing from whom? , accessed March 7, 2012
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (End of the 2nd paragraph in the "Scoring" section)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roterdorn.de
  4. ↑ "John Carter" Vs. "Star Wars" Vs. "Avatar": Who is actually stealing from whom? , accessed March 11, 2009

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