This published version of Burroughs´ first Martian novel was not my very first try to turn this charming story into pictures.
Late sixties I commenced to make A Princess of Mars as a comic in my own homemade magazine. Below are two pages
from that enterprise - one of them is the last page I made, there is not even text on it...
referencies straight from the earlier work. I had once invented the outlook of many things about the story. One thing was a dis-
appointment - I had used in sixties certain colors, which I couldn´t find any more. They were very nice colors made for colo-
loring photographs, very bright and easy to use. After fruitless search for them I was forced to use acrylic with my new pictu-
res. At the moment PORTTI-magazine has published my John Carter of Mars in four issues, but some 20 pages have been wai-
ting to be printed at least three years. The publishing rate has been so slow that I do not believe any more that I´d ever have
even the first of Burroughs´ Martian book finished. When I started the job, I had in my mind to handle all first three books,
which are the best that Burroughs has written about Barsoom.
My comic-version of Burroughs´ A Princess of Mars is printed in five PORTTI-magazines:
PORTTI 2/1991 PORTTI 2/1992 PORTTI 1/1994 PORTTI 2/2002 PORTTI 2/2013
The first part of this comics was published in an issue which was dedicated to Edgar Rice Burroughs and beside the comic, I
also wrote three articles about ERB, his biography, his writings and the movies of Tarzan. The best source of information
was Irwin Porges´ book "The Man Who Created Tarzan". There was also other articles written by other persons and for
those and mine too, I made pictures from the different books of ERB to decorate the text. The title of my comic has been
changed because of the movie-project of "A Princess of Mars". When Disney got the rights for it, it also had the copyright
for several version of names including "John Carter", "Barsoom" etc. I started my comic-version under the name "John
Carter of Mars", and then I was forced to rename it as "The Hero of Mars".
The Burroughs-special of PORTTI One of the pictures from Burroughs-special issue.
This picture has been used in France as a calendar-image by Jean-Pierre Moumon. Then it was black-
and-white drawing and in that form it was also published in PORTTI ERB-special. I colored it in Pho-
toshop for this webpage.
link to PORTTI website: PORTTI-magazine Finland
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