{"id":1704,"date":"2012-03-15T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2014-02-28T17:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:37:20","slug":"yet-another-john-carter-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2012\/03\/15\/yet-another-john-carter-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another ‘John Carter’ post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’ve been on a string of John Carter<\/em><\/a> posts of late because of the movie’s release. Here’s another one…<\/p>\n

The game<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Back in the 1970s, we used to play strategy board games. Around the same time, I had been reading Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/strong><\/a>‘ Mars series so I couldn’t resist buying the “John Carter: Warlord of Mars” game when Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) issued it in ’79.
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\nThe game was designed by Mark Herman<\/strong>. Other credits include: graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen<\/strong>; game development by Eric Goldberg<\/strong>; and cover illustration by Don Maitz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There’s a 16-page booklet, The World of Barsoom<\/em>, by Scott B. Bizar<\/strong> that gives an overview of Burroughs\u2019 Mars.<\/p>\n

As you can see by the photos (click to enlarge them), it doesn’t look very used. I remember playing it at least once.<\/p>\n

Ever since then, the game has been tucked away in a box or, more recently, in a closet in a bookcase with pulps and pulp-related paperbacks.<\/p>\n

Ah, well, back it goes.<\/p>\n

A book (or two)<\/h4>\n

I haven’t posted as many John Carter entries as graphic designer Scott Dutton<\/strong> has. Dutton, of Edmonton, Canada, has quite a number on his blog at Scott Dutton Illustration & Design<\/a>. His entries focus on the various illustrators who have taken pen or brush to paper to depict the warlord of Mars.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you look on his eBooks page<\/a>, you’ll find Return to Barsoom<\/em><\/a>, a novel written by Dutton based on the Barsoom series. It’s a free book available in either ePub or MOBI formats.<\/p>\n

Dutton attempts, among other things, \u201cto reconcile ERB\u2019s Barsoom (his name for Mars), with what we know about Mars in the real world. The juxtaposition of the two worlds I thought would help make Barsoom\u2019s world more accessible to new readers, and for people who knew Barsoom the challenge to their assumptions would bring a freshness to their experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

(There’s also an ePub version of Burroughs’ original John Carter novel, A Princess of Mars<\/em><\/a>, featuring the illustrations of Frank E. Schoonover<\/strong> from the A.C. McClurg & Co. book of 1917.)<\/p>\n

A website<\/h4>\n

The John Carter Files<\/a> has popped up to support the release of Disney’s John Carter<\/em> movie, and encourage the studio to proceed with a sequel. The site is backed by independent filmmaker Michael Sellers<\/strong>‘ Q Media Assets.<\/p>\n

You’ll find quite a lot of information about the movie, Barsoom, Burroughs, as well as photo galleries and videos from the movie. There’s also a page about the fan-edited trailer<\/a> (embedded below) put together by Sellers and Mark Linthicum<\/strong> using previously released scenes.<\/p>\n