[Barsoom 01] • John Carter 1 (Prinses Van Mars)

This unique edition of John Carter from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.

John Carter, a fictional lead character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, appears in Burroughs' Barsoom novels, a fictionalized version of Mars. This first novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was written between July and September 28, 1911, and serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in the pulp magazine The All-Story from February to July 1912. It later appeared as a complete novel only after the success of Burroughs' Tarzan series. For its October 1917 hardcover publication by A.C. McClurg Company, the novel was retitled A Princess of Mars.

Although Carter is actually a Virginian from Earth (he served as a captain in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy), and only a visitor to Mars, he is sometimes known as John Carter of Mars, in reference to the setting in which his major deeds are recorded.

His character and courtesy exemplify the ideals of the antebellum South, and John Carter has endured, having appeared in various media including the 2012 Disney-made feature film John Carter , which marks the hundredth anniversary of Carter's first appearance.