Continua la saga de John Carter, un personaje es de tipo heroico, Burroughs retrata al personaje, como un ser inmortal. En efecto, no recuerda haber sido nunca nino. Las generaciones de su familia se refieren a el como el tio Jack, pero las ve crecer y morir, manteniendose siempre en una edad proxima a los 30 anos. Su caracter y cortesia ejemplifican los ideales de su Virginia natal. Capitan durante la Guerra civil estadounidense, se hace rico al encontrar una mina de oro en Arizona al acabar la guerra. Un dia se esconde de los indios Apaches en una cueva y cae en una muerte aparente, pero es...

THE WARLORD OF MARS 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...

After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, an Eden from which none ever escaped alive. Three monstrous white apes sprang into the arena. On her throne, Issus, the living goddess of the First Born, leaned forward in keen anticipation. At length the apes spied the huddled knot of terror-stricken maidens and, with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy, charged upon them. A wave of mad fury surged over me. A single blow sent my guard unconscious to...

Tara of Helium, the Warlord's beautiful and spirited daughter, is carried away by the vast winds of a violent Martian Storm. Tara brings her small one-man flyer down safely enough, but she is stranded in a strange part of Barsoom, where magnificent rykors-headless bodies work like cattle at the mercy of their pitiless masters, the kaldanes-creatures which are all head and no body. And this is not all, for in trying to escape from the Kaldanes Tara is captured by the city of Manator where she becomes the prize in the Martian game of chess, jetan-played with living pieces-and played to the...

When unknown raiders seized Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, the chief suspect was Carthoris, son of the Warlord of Mars. Yet only Carthoris could rescue the women who had spurned his love. Carthoris saw Thuvia dragged to the foot of the rostrum. He saw Hortan Gur address her. He could not hear the Torquasian jeddak s words, nor Thuvia's reply, but it must have angered the green monster, for Carthoris saw him leap toward the prisoner, striking her a cruel blow across the face. Then the son of John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, went mad. His half-Earth muscles sent him in enormous leaps and bounds...

MAN, MONSTER, OR JUNGLE GOD? They called him Number 13, the latest and best of Dr. Von Horn's attempts to make life from lifeless chemicals. He found himself an almost-human on Von Horn's hideaway jungle island off the coast of Borneo. He saw the monsters that preceded him, growing used to the dreadful travesties of humanity. Not until Number Thirteen met the American girl who was Von Horn's unwilling prisoner did he realize how different he was from the others. Because, monsters or not, he turned against his master and threw in his lot with the girl and his friends with their desperate...