Comic readers expected new monsters and ideas on a regular basis. If he had stayed faithful to the source material, he would have been canceled must earlier. He was charged with creating a Barsoom comic that could compete with Flash Gordon. I mean where did that earth horse come from? And why have red two armed apes when ERB gave us four-armed ones? Kanigher phoned it in… Art by Noly Zamoraīut John Coleman Burroughs is a different deal. When DC Comics began Tarzan Family, Robert Kanigher wrote “Amazon of Barsoom” with Thorjah, that entirely ignored the canon. Now I see in places on the Internet people disparaging any digression from the original Burroughs novels. Fans did not materialize and JCB was done. The only thing harsher than a Barsoomian prison, is the competitive world of newspaper comic strips. (along with their pet calot.)Įscaping the robots, but still giant in size, Deja and John encounter chicken giants…ĭeja gets reduced back to her own size before having one last Barsoomian adventure that features the controversial three-legged Barsoomian rat.Īpril 25, 1943, after seventy three episodes, the Sunday comic was discontinued. Deja gets restored to life but as a giant fifty-foot woman. The pair go to the city of Go-La-Ra, and Deja is turned to a statue of stone. The robots are created by the Wizard of Eo, Vovo, strangely a thark ( Mad scientists and wizards in Burroughs are almost always human.) Armed with swords, these metal men form a dangerous army for the lone swordsman. JCB’s next creation is the robots of Mars. The dragon and bird go off to fight it out to the death. (A very ERB thing to do.) John has the bird monster fight a dragon that looks Chinese in design. The mother bird tries to feed Deja Thoris to her babies. ERB created Malagors in 1940 for The Synthetic Men of Mars, but this bird is something of John’s creation. The first of these was the Durkoos, a giant bird. John used the expected material from the books in the first seventeen weekends before adding in some new ideas of his own. But to compete against Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon, Barsoom would have to get even more interesting. John had inherited the fascinating world of Barsoom from his father, with its tall, green warriors, giant white apes and daring-do. The Flash Gordon influence can be seen in the types of stories John did. Eight years later, they were willing to give it another try.) The first episode premiered on December 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. John had tried to get a comic done back in 1933 but the newspaper syndicate went with Flash Gordon instead. (His wife, Jane Ralston Burroughs did the modelling for Deja Thoris.) United Feature Syndicate distributed the comic, hoping it would become another Flash Gordon. John also drew the John Carter of Mars Sunday comic in 1941. John grew up in California, became an artist and painted several of his father’s book covers. John Coleman Burroughs (1913-1979) was Edgar Rice Burroughs’ second son. Not only robots, but other fantastic creatures as well… Every heard of it? Edgar Rice Burroughs never wrote it but someone close to him did.
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