Amazon of Barsoom

1. Thorjah's origin is told as she becomes the first Amazon of Barsoom. For some reason, the Red Martians are coloured blue in this story.
2. Amazon of Barsoom was a one shot supplemental story from Tarzan family NO. 60. It has many discrepancies, not the least of which is red martiansbeing portrayed as blue (while still being referred to as red).
   Written by Robert Kanigher, drawn by Noly Zamora
3. Robert Kanigher wrote some of the most braindead Edgar Rice Burrough stories for DC Comics.They may have loved him,but for allot of work for DC was total trash.His Korak stories were assinine and total dreck.
4. Amazon of Barsoom was so wronge headed.It should somebody whose ignorance of the sourse material was shown from the get go.

   Other animals have been added to the Barsoomian fauna in comics and pastiches, most notably in the DC comics Tarzan family series. There was a one-shot story called "Amazon of Barsoom," which told the story of Martian princess. This is less pastiches and pure trash.A predatory lizard-beast is pillaging the eggs when the princess hatches.A full grown woman, Before she is eaten herself she slays the creature with his own sword.Whoopy.Kanagher,if you call this professional writing?-got news,it ain't no matter how many professional asskissers say so. The "cannibal lizard" seems more than a mere beast however, as he wears both a tunic and a sword with scabbard! Later the Amazon of the title ,riding a horse,not a thoat more suited for Blackmark and not Barsoom saves her Jeddak father from the "demon apes of the misty caves." She slaughters the red-furred simians en masse, proving herself as worthy to her father as any son would have been. Now about those apes -- now we have TWO primate species (other than the red, yellow, black-skinned humans) native to Mars!

   

   Another, separate, storyline involves a series of "lost journals" or John Carter. They are discovered in a trunk by a member of the aquatic Myopsian race (which are, in fact, native to Amtor (Venus), NOT Barsoom!The first journal sees John Carter rescuing a beautiful princess who is trapped within a giant green gemstone. While searching for an implement to cut the crystal, he encounters a multi-legged styracosaurus-like beast that is unnamed in any of the canonical tales. The beast charges the gemstone, shattering it and freeing the princess. Carter then slays the beast with his sword. Later, the two are menaced by "the scavengers of Barsoom," flying reptiles which resemble three-headed pteranodons! The "Amazon" story also shows flying reptiles which it refers to as "sky-kites."

    
   1. Korak the son of Tarzan helps a native boy in Forbidden Tomb.
   2. Carson of Venus tells of his travels to Mars.
   3. Thorjah's origin is told as she becomes the first Amazon of Barsoom. For some reason, the Red Martians are coloured blue in this story.
   Note: As part of the DC Explosion, DC launched Tarzan Family #60 (12/75), picking up the numbering from Korak, Son of Tarzan, two months before

5. ay, March 12, 2012

   Reading Room: STORY OF OTHER WORLDS "Amazon of Barsoom"

   The John Carter movie is in theaters now...

   

   ...so we're presenting the final never-reprinted Barsoom tale that ran in DC Comics' Tarzan Family in 1976!

   

   

   

   

   This story from Tarzan Family #60 (1975) was written by Robert Kaniger and illustrated by Rudy Zamora.

   The Heliumites in this tale are blue-skinned, not red (as in all other Barsoom stories), and the red "demon apes" who carry spears and talk have never appeared in any other Barsoom tale!

   As we mentioned earlier, this story and the "Secret Diaries of John Carter" mini-series have neverbeen reprinted since their publication in 1976, even in the recent Dark Horse trade paperback that presented all the other Barsoom-based stories that appeared in DC Comics!
   (It's rumored that they were the reason ERB.Inc pulled the license from DC!)
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8.  volume contains three new stories and several old Tarzan reprints.