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All-Story - October 1912 First Appearance of Tarzan (Munsey)
Widely considered the "Action Comics #1 of the pulp world", a VG copy of All-Story October 1912 featuring the first appearance of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs has just gone for a record $264,000 at today's session of the 2024 January 11 – 14 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #7358 at Heritage Auctions.  The[...]
New Dejah Thoris Statue Based On The Art Of J. Scott Campbell
The piece is being used to inspire a new Women of Dynamite statue: the Dejah Thoris Diroama Statue. Dejah Thoris, the science-fiction heroine who debuted in Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 serial A Princess of Mars, has long been a cornerstone of the Dynamite Entertainment brand, both as a featured character in the Warlord of Mars series and[...]
Amy Chu To Write New Dejah Thoris Series For Dynamite
Dynamite is kicking off their New York Comic-Con announcements with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Princess of Mars Writer Amy Chu (Poison Ivy) will take on the new Dejah Thoris series that will kick off with a $.25 cent #0 issue to start the new year The last $.25 cent #0 issue the publisher did was Sheena[...]
Exclusive First Look At The Literary Adapted Comics From Dynamite Shipping In August 2017
These include Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files, George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Pierce Brown's Red Rising and the collective characters of Edgar Rice Burroughs. JIM BUTCHER'S THE DRESDEN FILES: DOG MEN #3 Cover A: Diego Galindo Writer: Jim Butcher, Mark Powers Art: Diego Galindo Jim Butcher's worldwide bestselling Dresden Files saga continues in[...]
Exclusive – The Greatest Adventure By Willingham And Razek Gets Trailer
Hitting shops today is The Greatest Adventure #1 by Bill Willingham and Cezar Razek and features the collected heroes of Edgar Rice Burroughs including Tarzan, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, The Mucker, Jason Gridley and many more A sci-fi adventure from the creator of Fables and Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure Here we have the Exclusive trailer[...]
Exclusive First Look At Cezar Rezak's Art For The Greatest Adventure
The series pulls together the bast creations of author Edgar Rice Burroughs into a single epic adventure written by Bill Willingham and drawn be Cezar Rezak Covers for the first issue are by Cary Nord, Rags Morales and Roberto Castro and the book goes on sale April 12th. I got to chat with Willingham about the[...]
Bill Willingham On Edgar Rice Burroughs And The Greatest Adventure
When Dynamite announced The Greatest Adventure, a new comic series featuring the vast universe of characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the thing that got me the most interested was that Bill Willingham (Fables) was going to be writing it If anyone could pull together characters like Tarzan, John Carter and the Mucker into a[...]
Bill Willingham And Cezar Rezak Go On The Greatest Adventure
Bill Willingham (Fables) is teaming up with artist Cezar Rezak (Warlord of Mars) for an all-new limited series featuring the Edgar Rice Burroughs characters of Tarzan, Korak, John Carter and Dejah Thoris The Greatest Adventure is a planet-hopping series that starts when a crash landing reveals a secret plot by a mysterious cabal of scientists to[...]
Legend Of Tarzan – The Most Accurate Tarzan Film Made
How did you and Dark Horse become involved I the film and how is it different than other versions of Tarzan we've seen? MIKE RICHARDSON: It came about because of my friendship with Danton Burroughs, who is Edgar Rice Burroughs grandson We've talked about many things we've wanted to do and I told him that[...]
Dejah Thoris May Be The Best Way To Judge The Dynamite Redesigns
Where Red Sonja and Vampirella were know for their specific look, Dejah Thoris was more likely known for just how little she wore as her outfit varied often.This is their new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character now: The company regularly did multiple covers for the different Mars based series featuring Dejah by a variety[...]
SDCC '15: John Carter Comes To Tabletop Gaming
By Christopher Helton Coming out of the Edgar Rice Burroughs panel at San Diego Comic-Con came the announcement that the John Carter property was being licensed for tabletop gaming. Modiphius Entertainment (licensee of Gerry Anderson's The Thunderbirds for board roleplaying games, Robert E Howard's Conan for roleplaying, the DUST Adventures roleplaying game) will aggressively produce various tabletop games using the characters and settings of[...]
The John Carter That Could Have Been
Whether you like it or hate it, the Disney John Carter film with Taylor Kitsch did not do fans of the Edgar Rice Burrough's science fiction world any
Disney Loses Film Rights To John Carter
In an announcement on Tuesday, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc said that they have regained the rights to the John Carter franchise and are looking for a new partner to develop films based on the eleven Mars novels by Burroughs. Disney of course was the studio who most recently controlled the rights and made a feature film[...]
"This Is Literally A Dream Come True" – Ron Marz Talks Writing John Carter
With the settlement of the rights to the Edgar Rice Burroughs properties, Dynamite Entertainment is now moving forward with a John Carter: Warlord Of Mars series written by the appropriately named and life-long fan Ron Marz The former Green Lantern writer talked with Byron Brewer about bringing the classic science fiction series to life on[...]
Going All In – Nick Barrucci And Dynamite's 10 Years Of Publishing
Can you be more specific? Who are the readers that you feel will want to pick up the Creators Unleashed books? NB: The comparisons to DC/Vertigo and Image Comics are based on history and philosophy.  When Vertigo first came into being, it had provided a place for exceptional talents to explore far-out ideas, and appealed to an[...]
Warlord Of Marz – Ron Marz Takes On John Carter
This comes in the wake of the licensing deal between Dynamite and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., settling their legal differences and opening up the full world of Barsoom to the publisher Joining Marz on… Mars is newcomer Abhishek Malsuni. If you don't know about the character, the novels, the comics or the major motion picture from[...]
Arvid Nelson On Science Fiction, Edgar Rice Burroughs And Lords Of Mars
Howard to Edgar Rice Burroughs as he takes on John Carter in Lords of Mars for Dynamite Entertainment Nancy Collins did a quick peer-to-peer interview with Nelson to talk about the new project. NANCY COLLINS: How old were you when you first became aware of Edgar Rice Burroughs' work? Was your first exposure Tarzan, John Carter,[...]
Lord Of Mars – The Tarzan/John Carter Crossover, Only Dynamite Can't Call It That
But that's okay, we can! Lords Of Mars, the six issue crossover of two Edgar Rice Burroughs creations, in a new series from Dynamite starting in August. I recently, accidentally, found I'd pitched a high concept Dynamite crossover to its publisher Nicky Barrucci I'd better write it up before someone else does it Because it's starting… (W)[...]