''John Carter, Warlord of Mars'' is a comics series published from 1977 by American company

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. Created by

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(writer) and

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(penciller), it was based on the Barsoom series of Edgar Rice Burroughs and featured the eponymous character. The entire series (with few exceptions) takes place between the third and fourth paragraphs of chapter 27 of Burroughs' novel ''

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''. The series ran from 1977 to 1979. In 1978 it won the "Favourite New Title" Eagle Award.

Other comics featuring the character

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released three issues of ''John Carter of Mars'' under its ''

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'' banner. The issue numbers are 375, 437, and 488, and were released in 1952-1953.

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would reprint them as three issues in 1964, numbering one through three, but reprinted them out of order.

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in 2010 reprinted the comics in a hard back archive edition. John Carter appeared in

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' ''Tarzan'' comics #207-209, then '' Weird Worlds'' #1-7 and ''Tarzan Family'' 62-64 in the early 1970s. There was also a four-issue mini-series cross-over in 1996 with another of Burroughs' characters,

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, in ''Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars'' from

. Starting in October 2010,

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has begun publishing a regular series entitled ''Warlord of Mars''. The first two issues served as a prelude story, issues 3-9 adapted ''

'', and issues 10-12 were an original story with following issues alternating between adaptation and new stories. This series ceased with #35, accompanied by two out-of-numbering issues (#100 and #0), in 2014. In 2011, Marvel published two mini-series, ''John Carter: A Princess of Mars'', by Roger Langridge (scripts) and Filipe Andrade (art), and ''John Carter: World of Mars'', by

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(scripts) and

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(art), a prequel to the Disney Movie. In 2012, Marvel published a new miniseries entitled ''John Carter: Gods of Mars'', based on the novel the ''Gods of Mars'', with scripts by Sam Humphries and art by Ramon Perez. In 2014,

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initiated the publication of

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'' Warlord of Mars'' by Roy Thomas (script) and Rodolfo Pérez García (art).

Newspaper strip

In 1941,

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wrote and illustrated 69 weeks of a syndicated colour Sunday

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, ''John Carter of Mars'', which debuted in ''

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'' on December 7, 1941. This debut coincided with the Japanese

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, resulting in the series being picked up by very few papers. The strip began with a ''Princess of Mars'' adaptation but departed from the original with episode 5. John Coleman Burroughs explained that this was done at the request of

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, in order to provide more action in the weekly episodes. Continuing with the Burroughs tradition of family involvement, John's wife, Jane Ralston Burroughs, helped with the backgrounds, inking, and lettering of the strip and even served as model for

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.Hillman, Bill
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Collected editions

have collected the Marvel series as a single black-and-white trade paperback: *''John Carter of Mars: Warlord of Mars'' (paperback, 632 pages, March 2011, ) They also released a collection of the DC series: *''John Carter of Mars: Weird Worlds'' (paperback, 112 pages, January 2011, ) as well as the earlier Dell Comics one: *''Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars: The Jesse Marsh Years'' (hardcover, 120 pages, May 2010, )

has released their entire series as an oversized hardcover omnibus. Unlike the Dark Horse reprint, the omnibus is in full color: *''John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus'' (hardcover, 632 pages, February 2012, )

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Other comics featuring the character

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