Dynamite reacquires John Carter comic rights

ONE famous fantasy property has had its tangled issue of publishing rights sorted out recently. John Carter, the Earthman hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess Of Mars (and many subsequent books), has been around for more than 100 years in one form another. Making his debut as a pulp character in The All-Story magazine in 1912, Carter’s Martian adventures were collected in both hardback and paperback throughout much of the 20th century. Comic books got into the act as well, with publishers such as Dark Horse, Dell and Marvel all trying their hand, beginning in 1940.

So when Dynamite Entertainment started publishing Warlord Of Mars in 2010, and later titles like The Green Men Of Mars and Lords Of Mars, most folks assumed that Dynamite was simply the latest lessee of the franchise rights.