Collects John Carter, Warlord of Mars (1977) #1-28 and John Carter, Warlord of Mars Annual #1-3.
*Marvel's top talents of the 1970s take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' savage swordsman of Barsoom!
Civil War veteran John Carter, a hunted soldier on the Western frontier, through the worst was over when the war ended.
But after being transported to the alien world of Mars, he finds his talents are needed more than ever. This strange new world is both technologically futuristic and barbaric, with warlike six-armed aliens vying over the planet they call Barsoom.
Discovering the hidden beauty of Barsoom embodied in the incomparable Martian princess Dejah Thoris, Carter finds a new home in this foreign world and a new calling as Warlord of Mars!
Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in a series of pulp novels, this classic science-fiction epic was retold in the Mighty Marvel Manner during the 1970s!
The creators involved are a who's who of classic comics talent - including Marv Wolfman (Crisis on Infinite Earths, New Teen Titans), Frank Miller (Daredevil, Sin City, 300), Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men) and more. *Source: dust jacket