Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Since 1996 ~ Over 15,000 Webpages in Archive Volume 3633 |
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Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Since 1996 ~ Over 15,000 Webpages in Archive Volume 3633 |
The Babes of Burroughs
By Sean Phillips
Dejah Thoris
Dejah Thoris is the titular princess of Burroughs Princess of Mars. The daughter of Mors Kajak, Jed of Lesser Helium. She is John Carter's beloved, and eventually his wife. Her beauty is often referred to as "incomparable." To look at these pictures, one can see why this is. 
Tara of Helium
Tara was the daughter of John Carter sand Dejah Thoris. Strange that an Jasoomian and a Barsoomian princess are capable of reproducing, given their different reproductive systems. Tara obviously has inherited her mother's beauty and curvaceousness. Here, she is depicted recoiling in horror from one of the Kaldane/Rykors.
Thuvia of Ptarth
A princess of the Barsoomian city of Ptarth. She becomes is the mate of Cathoris, the son of John Carter. She has the ability to control the great banths, the six-legged "lions" of Barsoom.
Llana of Gathol
The beautiful daughter Gathan and Tara of Helium (sorry, I couldn't find a picture)
Duare
Carson Napier's beloved, the beautiful daughter of Mintep Jong of Vepaja on the cloud-shrouded forest world of Amtor. Here she is facing off with a tharban, or Venusian "tiger." Wait -- aren't tharbans supposed to be peppermint-striped -- and striped longitudinally?
Seeing this picture, certain words come to mind: "Shara drew her blade, held in her small, capable fist and waited, as the great predator snarled in menace."
Don't know why; this IS Duare of Amtor, not a jungle girl named Shara. Oh, well...
Nah-ee-Lah
The "Moon-Maid" of the novel of that title, Na-ee-Lah, princess of the lunar city of Lathe.
She is perhaps the most beautiful heroine Burroughs ever created, and the most lovely Frazetta ever illustrated. She became the beloved of Julian 5th, man of Earth, who describes her thusly:"...there before me, was as perfectly formed a human female as I had ever seen. ...she appeared a girl of about eighteen, with hair of glossy blackness, that suggested more the raven's wing than aught else and a skin of almost marble whiteness, slightly tinged with a creamy shade. Such perfection of features seemed almost unbelievable." - from The Moon Maid
Frazetta depicts the Va-gahs as a race of centaurs, although that is not technically correct. The Vah-gahs are sentinet quadropeds, but not centaurs. "Frazetta Comics" did a one-shot issue based on this painting.
The story was vaguely Burroughian, but the princess was not Nah-ee-lah, and it had nothing to do with the origninal tale by Burroughs.
Oh, and notice the difference between frazetta's illustration for the paperback edition, and the more commonly seen version above.
Dian the Beautiful
Dian the Beautiful is the beloved of David Innes in Burroughs' Pellucidar series. The first of the illustrations above may, in fact, depict a different girl in At the Earth's Core(one who tragically fell victim to the Mahar), or it may in fact depict Dian, but no particular scene from the novel. The second Frazetta pic shows a well-developed Dian facing off against a Tarag in the Mahar arena; the thipdars in the painting sized the tarag and carried him off, saving the lives of David and Dian. This was becuase a dept that Tu-ul-sa, the Mahar queen owed to David after sparing her life. The final Frazetta pic is from a scene for Savage Pellucidar, showing Dian between two snarling smilodons. This same painting was also used on one edition of Burroughs' The Cave Girl, though that was erroneous, as no sabertooths, nor any other beast save a large panther, ever appeared in its pages. 
La-ja
A blonde barbarian girl of the Pelluicdaran village of Basti, von Horst's beloved in Back to the Stone Age. She acted as though she hated him throughout most of thier adventures. In truth, she feared that Gaz, her suitor would kill von Horst When the German finally killed Gaz, La-ja let him know her true feelings for him. Sorry, I couldn't find a picture. Note: In one of the Russ Manning newspaper strips it is suggested that La-ja was killed, and von Horst fallen into deep depression. I still wonder if that was really true, and perhaps La-ja was still alive, much as Jane was still alive in the comic series Tarzan: the Savage Heart. Anyway, it was non-canonical.
Jana (the Red Flower) of Zoram
Jason Gridley's beloved in Tarzan at the Earth's Core. He saved her from unwanted suitors, and eventually returned to the surface with her.
Nat-ul
The beloved of Nu of the Niocene in Burroughs stand-alone novel The Eternal Savage.
Victoria Custer
Nat-al's reincarnation in present-day Africa.
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