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THE WARLORD OF MARS
ERB commenced writing this third Mars novel May 10, 1913
Alternate writing titles: Yellow Men of Barsoom ~ The Fighting Prince of Mars ~ Across Savage Mars
The Prince of Helium ~ The War Lord of Mars
e-Text Edition
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Newspaper Serialization1921
ERBzine Guide to Barsoom

Joe Jusko Art for ERB, Inc. Authorized Edition ~ 2024
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AMERICAN PUBLISHING HISTORY
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PULP
All-Story Magazine: 1913 December ~ 1914 January - March
     F.W. Small: first issue cover and b/w headpiece in each installment
FIRST EDITION
A.C. McClurg: September 27, 1919 ~ 296 pages ~ 1st Ed. Print Run: 20,000 ~ Total: 165,600 ~ Heins word count: 60,000
     J. Allen St. John: DJ with same illustration in sepia for frontispiece
REPRINT EDITIONS
A.C. McClurg: 1919
Grosset & Dunlap: many printings 1920 and into the '30s
Grosset & Dunlap: 1940 ~ no frontispiece
ERB, Inc.: March 26, 1948 ~ with St. John frontispiece
Ballantine paperback: March 1963 ~ 158 pages
     Robert Abbett cover
Doubleday Science-Fiction Book Club edition: 1971 with Gods of Mars ~ 336 pages
     Frank Frazetta wrap-around DJ and interiors
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
     Gino D'Achille cover
Ballantine-Del Rey paperback: May 1979
     Michael Whelan cover
Buccaneer Books hardcover: 1983 ~ no DJ or interiors ~ 158 pages

For detailed information, see Robert B. Zeuschner's
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography (ERB, Inc., 2016).
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The Warlord of Mars This third book in the Barsoom series relates the adventures of John Carter as he battles to win the secret of the prison cell in the Temple of the Sun --- the cell that holds his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris, the Martian maid Thuvia, and the vicious and vindictive daughter of the High Priest of Issus.

We meet again our old friend, the faithful Woola, mighty Tars Tarkas, John Carter's son Carthoris, and many a new friend and enemy from the crimson plains of the valley Dor to the frozen wastes of the far North, inhabited by the apt, through the dread Carrion Caves to the land of the yellow men with their bestial jeddak Salensus Oll.

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*** 1881: Frederic Charles William Small, often identified as just Fred W. Small, was born August 17, 1881 in San Francisco, California. He worked for pulp magazines -- Munsey, All-Story, Argosy -- and was involved in the first public presentation of some ERB stories through that venue. He did the covers for The Warlord of Mars, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Mad King and The Cave Man (sequel to "The Cave Girl") and also "headpieces" for ERB's first pulp appearance: "Under the Moons of Mars" and such stories as "A Man Without A Soul" (part 1 of "The Mucker") and "Sweetheart Primeval," (part 2 of "The Eternal Lover").
The Warlord of Mars
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The Beasts of Tarzan
https://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0485.html
"The Mad King": All-Story Weekly: March 21, 1914 ~ Cover Art
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The Cave Man
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Frederic Charles William Small wSmall, Fred W. (1881-1960)
as born August 17, 1881 in San Francisco, California. His father, Wilhelm Small, was a German immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1870. His mother, Minnie Small, was born 1847 in Scotland. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1861. His parents married in 1876. They had three children, of which only two survived infancy. His older sister was born in 1877. They lived at 1345 Sacramento Street. In 1887 a fourth child was born, his little sister Minnie, but died eighteen months later in 1889. His father died in 1896. By 1898 his older sister had married and moved away, so he lived alone with his widowed mother. He remained in San Francisco until after graduating from high school in 1900. He then studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1903 he began to draw newspaper illustrations for The San Francisco Chronicle. In 1905 he illustrated stories for Sunset Magazine, a monthly periodical published by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of San Francisco, which was exclusively distributed for the entertainment of their passengers. In 1906 San Francisco was struck by an historic earthquake and a subsequent fire that destroyed much of the city. By 1910 he and his mother had moved to New York City to seek his fortune as a newspaper and magazine illustrator. They lived together at 148 West 105th Street in Harlem. Within two years he was illustrating stories for the pulp magazine The All-Story. He went on to illustrate and to paint pulp magazine covers for The Argosy, The Cavalier, and Munsey's Magazine. On June 2, 1914 he married Maude L. Oswald in a Brooklyn Civil Court ceremony. His wife was born May 24, 1894 in New York. They moved to a rented apartment at 523 Seventy-ninth Street in Brooklyn. On August 13, 1915 they had twin daughters, Drucilla and Dolores. There son John was born later. Most pulp artists worked freelance and were treated as hired guns, but Fred W. Small worked full-time to illustrate pulp magazines published exclusively by Frank A. Munsey. The company offices were located at 280 Broadway on Chambers Street across from the Tweed Courthouse and City Hall in Lower Manhattan. On September 12, 1918 he registered for the draft during the Great War. He was recorded at the time to be of medium height, medium build, with brown eyes and brown hair. At the age of thirty-seven and the sole support of his widowed mother, wife and two young daughters he was not selected for military service. By 1920 he and his wife and children had moved to a home they bought at 464 Seventy-fourth Street in Brooklyn. His last pulp magazine illustrations appeared in 1921, because he accepted a full-time job to create artwork that publicized motion pictures. In 1922 he moved to a magnificent home he bought for $21,000 in Larchmont,NY, Mamaroneck Township of Westchester County. His daughters attended public school and graduated in June of 1933 from Mamaroneck High School. During the 1930s he worked exclusively for Paramount Motion Picture Film Company. By 1940 he had moved forty miles northwest to Danbury, Connecticut. He also bought a vacation property six miles away at Lake Zoar on Cedarhurst Trail near Kettletown State Park in Newtown, Connecticut. His daughter Drucilla married and became Mrs. MacConnell and moved to Sepulveda, California. His other daughter Dolores Small grew up to become a commercial freelance illustrator with an art studio at 204 Jensen Avenue in Mamaroneck, NY. On May 30, 1947 she was on her way to visit her parents when the DC-4 commercial aircraft she had boarded at LaGuardia Air Field crashed and burned on the runway and killed her and thirty-eight other passengers and crew. His son John moved to Cuidad Guadalajara in Mexico. In 1948 at the age of sixty-seven he retired from commercial art. In 1952 he moved to Tucson, Arizona, and lived at 1432 North Catalina. Frederic C. W. Small died in the Tucson Medical Center, at the age of seventy-nine on September 10, 1960.

VARIOUS ST. JOHN COVER SCANS
Warlord of Mars cover by J. Allen St. John

Warlord of Mars frontispiece by J. Allen St. John

Frank Frazetta Illustrations
from the
1971 Doubleday Edition
THE WARLORD OF MARS

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Alternate Original
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Pulp Magazine Edition

Cover images courtesy Ron de Laat and Dennis Kesler
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From the ERBzine Illustrated Pulp Bibliography

Chronology Chart for
The Warlord of Mars
From Chronology For the Princess of Mars Trilogy by Fredrik Ekman
Refer to ERBzine 0507 for notations

Scientific Days and Years

Earth Time	Barsoom Time	Event	Note
Mar 1, 1888	11 ord, 462 padan	Shadowing Thurid	16
Mar 2, 1888	11 ord, 463 padan	Encounter with Lakor	17
Mar 3, 1888	11 ord, 464 padan	Visual contact with Dejah Thoris
Mar 6, 1888	11 ord, 467 padan	At Matai Shang's tower
Mar 7, 1888	11 ord, 469 padan	Shot down by Thurid
Mar 9, 1888	11 ord, 470 padan	Meeting with Torkar Bar
Mar 10, 1888	11 ord, 471 padan	Battle of Kaol
Mar 11, 1888	11 ord, 472 padan	Meeting with Thuvan Dihn
Mar 12, 1888	11 ord, 473 padan	Kulan Tith has a change of heart
Mar 14, 1888	11 ord, 475 padan	Recommenced pursuit
Mar 15, 1888	11 ord, 476 padan	Crash against ice barrier
Mar 21, 1888	11 ord, 482 padan	Finds the Carrion Caves
Mar 22, 1888	11 ord, 483 padan	Helps Talu	18
Mar 25, 1888	11 ord, 486 padan	Arrival outside Kadabra
Mar 26, 1888	11 ord, 487 padan	Enters Kadabra
Mar 27, 1888	11 ord, 488 padan	Accepted as royal guards
Mar 30, 1888	11 ord, 491 padan	Thrown into the pit of plenty
Apr 9, 1888	11 ord, 500 padan	Battle of Kadabra
Apr 19, 1888	11 ord, 510 padan	Talu officially becomes jeddak	19
May 22, 1888	11 ord, 542 padan	Departure from Ptarth	20
May 26, 1888	11 ord, 546 padan	Arrival at Helium	21

Quoted Days and Years

Earth Time	Barsoom Time	Event	Note
Mar 10, 1888	11 ord, 282 padan	Shadowing Thurid	16
Mar 11, 1888	11 ord, 283 padan	Encounter with Lakor	17
Mar 12, 1888	11 ord, 284 padan	Visual contact with Dejah Thoris
Mar 14, 1888	11 ord, 287 padan	At Matai Shang's tower
Mar 16, 1888	11 ord, 289 padan	Shot down by Thurid
Mar 17, 1888	11 ord, 290 padan	Meeting with Torkar Bar
Mar 18, 1888	11 ord, 291 padan	Battle of Kaol
Mar 19, 1888	11 ord, 292 padan	Meeting with Thuvan Dihn
Mar 20, 1888	11 ord, 293 padan	Kulan Tith has a change of heart
Mar 22, 1888	11 ord, 295 padan	Recommenced pursuit
Mar 24, 1888	11 ord, 296 padan	Crash against ice barrier
Mar 29, 1888	11 ord, 302 padan	Finds the Carrion Caves
Mar 30, 1888	11 ord, 303 padan	Helps Talu	18
Apr 3, 1888	11 ord, 306 padan	Arrival outside Kadabra
Apr 4, 1888	11 ord, 307 padan	Enters Kadabra
Apr 5, 1888	11 ord, 308 padan	Accepted as royal guards
Apr 8, 1888	11 ord, 311 padan	Thrown into the pit of plenty
Apr 17, 1888	11 ord, 320 padan	Battle of Kadabra
Apr 27, 1888	11 ord, 330 padan	Talu officially becomes jeddak	19
May 30, 1888	11 ord, 362 padan	Departure from Ptarth	20
Jun 3, 1888	11 ord, 366 padan	Arrival at Helium	21

The Warlord of Mars Chapter Titles

On the River Iss
Under the Mountains
The Temple of the Sun
The Secret Tower
On the Kaolian Road
A Hero in Kaol
New Allies
Through the Carrion Caves

With the Yellow Men
In Durance
The Pity of Plenty
"Follow the Rope!"
The Magnet Switch
The Tide of Battle
Rewards
The New Ruler

CAST OF CHARACTERS

John Carter ~ Dotar Sojat
Dejah Thoris
Thuvia
Phaidor
Xodar
Tardos Mors
Mors Kajak
Carthoris
Thurid
Woola
Matai Shang ~ Father of Therns ~ Holy Hekkador
Lakor ~ a Holy Thern
Torkar Bar ~ Dwar of the Kaolian Road

Kulan Tith ~ Jeddak of Kaol
Thuvan Dihn ~ Jeddak of Ptarth
Talu ~ Prince of Marentina
Salensus Oll ~ Jeddak of Jeddaks of Okar
Solan
Tars Tarkas
Kantos Kan ~ padwar, navy of Helium
Venomous reptiles
Banths ~ Martian lion
Sith ~ gigantic flying insect
Thoats
Apts ~ arctic monsters

The Official Publication of The Burroughs Bibliophiles
THE WARLORD OF MARS
www.erbzine.com/mag52/5209.html
New Series #9 :: January 1992 :: Pt. 1 Pages 1-24
BB Reprint Project Endorsed by the Editor and Publisher: George T. McWhorter
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PAPERBACK COVER ART GALLERY

Gino D'Achille cover art

Townsend Library: 2006 Edited Educators Edition
LIBRARY OF BRITISH PAPERBACK COVERS
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From the Laurence Dunn Collection
UK The Green Dragon Edition with Edward Mortlemans cover art
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JAPANESE EDITION

Motoichiro Takebe - Japan: Sogen-Suiri Books, 1966

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BARSOOM ART BY JOE JUSKO
Comic Cover Art by JOE JUSKO
Warlord of Mars I
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Warlord of Mars II
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Dynamite Comics Cover Art: 1 and 4

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In Defense Of Dejah Thoris :: Mountain Stronghold

Apt Encounter

Kekai Kotaki cover art for
Fall River Press edition - 2011

Don Maitz art for the John Carter Warlord of Mars SPI Role Playing Game

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Read the three John Carter of Mars Comics from Dell in 1952/53
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