7/25/2023 0 Comments Barsoom early illustrators![]() The warlike "Green Martians" have four arms and tusks, and stand approximately four meters tall. The humanoid "Red Martians", "White Martians", "Yellow Martians" and "Black Martians" resemble Homo sapiens in almost every respect except that they reproduce oviparously. Accordingly, his Earth body lies in a special tomb that can only be opened from the inside. Carter revealed that he mastered the process of travelling to and from Earth and Mars and could travel between the two at will. His "death" actually represents leaving his inanimate body behind on Earth while he travelled about Mars in an identical body. After travelling to Mars, he seemed to find his true calling in life as a warrior-savior of the planet's inhabitants. Many generations of families referred to him as "Uncle John," but he always lived to see all the members of the families grow old and die, while he remained young. ![]() In the opening pages of A Princess of Mars, the author reveals to the reader that Carter can remember no childhood, having always been a man of about thirty years old. He died there on March 4 1886.īurroughs portrays John Carter as an immortal being. Mysteriously transported back to Earth, he spent the last years of his life in a small cottage on the Hudson River in New York. The less intense gravity of Mars compared to Earth gave him demigod-like strength. While hiding from Apaches in a cave, he found himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where he subsequently had many adventures. A Virginian who served as a captain in the American Civil War, he struck it rich by finding gold in Arizona after the end of hostilities. His character and courtesy exemplified the ideals of the antebellum South. ![]() ![]() A form of teleportation mysteriously transports him to the planet Barsoom, where he encounters both formidable alien creatures resembling the beasts of ancient myth and various humanoids.Ĭarter stood 6′2″ tall and had close-cropped black hair and steel-gray eyes. ![]()
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