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John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian soldier who acts as the initial protagonist of the Barsoom stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A veteran of the American Civil War, he is transported to the planet Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants, where he becomes a warrior battling various mythological beasts, alien armies and malevolent foes.
John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Mar 9, 2012 · John Carter: Directed by Andrew Stanton. With Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe. Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians.
It features John Carter, a late-19th-century American Confederate veteran who is mysteriously transported from Earth to the dying world of Mars where he meets and romances the beautiful Martian princess Dejah Thoris. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters.
Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars (Barsoom) and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure.
John Carter of Mars. (includes John Carter and the Giant of Mars and Skeleton Men of Jupiter) Synopsis. No sooner had John Carter fought off the seemingly invincible giant warrior attacking the mighty city of Helium than he was faced with a more terrifying challenge from the gulfs of space.
The official Website for Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars. Also featured are updates on the Disney/Pixar John Carter of Mars film project.
John Carter of Mars. Public Domain Editions in eText. ERB C.H.A.S.E.R. ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA Read the Barsoom History with links to all 1st Edition covers of the series at: http://www.tarzan.com/worlds/barsoom.html.
Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants. He effectively disappeared for ten years [while on Mars], believed dead, but re-emerged in New York in 1876, settling on the Hudson.
John Carter, also known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia and Dotar Sojat, was the first man from Earth to reach Mars, and became one of the greatest Warlords in the history of Barsoom.
