Edgar Rice Burroughs

“ It is hardly too much to say it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation.
John Carter, American, goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona desert and when he wakes up finds himself on the planet Mars. ”

“ Only the man who created Tarzan, The Ape Man, could write so bold a story.
THE GODS OF MARS
Continuing the stirring adventures narrated in A Princess of Mars, sturdy John Carter of Virginia finds himself once more upon the strange planet forty-three million miles from earth. How he recovers his wife and son; how he fights the great white apes and the "plant men," ferocious creatures with sucking mouths in the palms of their hands, and whose mighty tails swish their victims to instant death ”