Four Color #375

Edgar Rice Burroughs' swashbuckling Martian hero leaps into action on this 1952 Dell ten-center, with John Carter — cape billowing, sword raised high — bearing down on a snarling green Thark warrior who meets him blade-for-blade beneath an alien sky dotted with planets. Jesse Marsh's cover art captures the fierce energy of Barsoom in bold, clean lines, pitting Carter's human athleticism against the hulking, red-eyed menace of his green opponent. With a story titled "The Prisoner of the Tharks," this issue promises exactly the kind of pulp-adventure tension that made Burroughs' creation a beloved sci-fi staple.