Warlord of Mars #1, Princess of Mars, just came out from Dynamite Entertainment and looks absolutely fantastic. The comic series is written by Arvid Nelson and is illustrated by Stephen (Avengers/Invaders) Sadowski and Lui Antonio. The movie, John Carter of Mars, comes out 2012.
The character, John Carter, was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912 and first appeared in A Princess of Mars. Carter is an ex-cavalry officer in the Confederate Army who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, which its natives call Barsoom. He is imbued with superior strength, due to Mars' lesser gravity, in comparison to Earth's, along with other surprising "powers" that he has somehow acquired through the transport from Earth to Mars.
He encounters both formidable alien creatures resembling the beasts of ancient myth and various humanoids and finds his true calling in life as a warrior-savior of the planet's inhabitants. He wins the hand of Martian princess Dejah Thoris of Helium, but ultimately sacrifices himself to save Barsoom. Awakening again after this second death he finds he has been miraculously transported back to Earth, and his original body.
John Carter has appeared in various Big Little Books of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a number of other comic strips and comic books. In the steps before the live action movie hits the screens in 2012, Dynamite Entertainment has now brought to life the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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