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DJ Image
SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS
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PULP
Argosy Weekly: 1939 January 7, 14, 21, 28 ~ February
4, 11
Rudolph Belarski: first installment
cover ~ Samuel Cahan: one b/w interior per issue
FIRST EDITION
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 15, 1940 ~ 315 pages ~ Print
Run: 3,500 ~ Heins word count: 70,000
John Coleman Burroughs:
DJ, spine drawing and five interiors
REPRINT EDITIONS
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948 ~ Burroughs DJ and
frontispiece
Ballantine paperback: June 1963 ~ 160 pages
Robert Abbett
cover
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
Gino D'Achille
cover
Doubleday Science-Fiction Book Club: January 1975
~ with Swords of Mars ~ 345 pages
Frank Frazetta: DJ and six b/w
interiors
Ballantine - Del Rey: October 1979
Michael Whelan cover
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Scans of original art ~ Pencil on board ~ 17 x 12 in.
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image
"The culture tank swarmed with writhing life like an enormous witch's
pot."
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image
"Strange creatures were coming toward us in prodigious leaps and
bounds."
Synthetic Men of Mars, frontispiece
"Directly before me, on a table, lay my body."
(Charcoal pencil on paper laid on board 16.75 x 11.75 in.)
(Restoration of piece damaged in Burroughs fire)
This artwork has been extensively restored, in particular the upper
left and right quadrants;
most notable, the monster in the upper right quadrant has been re-created
from his belt and forearm up; burnt area visible on the bottom center
edge.
INTERIOR ART GALLERY
See ERBzine
0352: JCB Tribute for larger images of this art
Scans courtesy the Robert Zeuschner Library
 
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Michael Whelan Del Rey Cover from the
Laurence Dunn collection
Michael Whelan Art
Cover art by Gino D'Achille plus rough preliminary from Catspaw
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Belarski pulp cover art sans text from Charles Madison |
Alternate scan of Belarski's actual original |
ERBzine References:
UK Checklist of ERB Editions
https://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0888.html
https://www.erbzine.com/mag63/6362.html
UK Leonar Publishing - Laurence
Dunn Checklist
https://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5871.html
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