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John Coleman Burroughs: Synthetic Men of Mars - 5 interiorsArgosy: January 7, 1939 - Synthetic Men of Mars 1/6
DJ Image
Larger Cover Image by John Coleman Burroughs

SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS
ERB commenced writing in March 1938
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PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)

PULP
Argosy Weekly: 1939 January 7, 14, 21, 28 ~ February 4, 11
    Rudolph Belarski: first installment cover ~ Samuel Cahan: one b/w interior per issue
FIRST EDITION
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 15, 1940 ~ 315 pages
    John Coleman Burroughs: DJ, spine drawing and five interiors
REPRINT EDITIONS
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948 ~ Burroughs DJ and frontispiece
Ballantine paperback: June 1963 ~ 160 pages
    Robert Abbett cover
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
    Gino D'Achille cover
Doubleday Science-Fiction Book Club: January 1975 ~ with Swords of Mars ~ 345 pages
    Frank Frazetta: DJ and six b/w interiors
Ballantine - Del Rey: October 1979
    Michael Whelan cover
 

For detailed information see:Robert Zeuschner's
ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography

JOHN COLEMAN BURROUGHS
INTERIOR ART GALLERY
See ERBzine 0352: JCB Tribute for larger images of this art
Scans courtesy the Robert Zeuschner Library

Directly before me, on a table, lay my bodyThe culture tank swarmed with writhing life like an enormous witch's pot
My superhuman strength and long sword arm gave us a great advantageA number os strange creatures came running toward usThere is no place in the world for such a hideous monster as I.


FRANK FRAZETTA GALLERY: Doubleday Edition Art
Frazetta cover art for the Doubleday Swords and Synthetic edition. . . one of them carried a woman in front of him on the neck of the great bird . . .
I threw him as high as I could.Janai saw the body of Vor Daj lying on the cold ersite slab . . .

GALLERY OF COVER ART

Robert Abbett art: Ballantine 1963Gino D'Achille art: Ballantine 1973Frank Frazetta art: Doubleday 1975Michael Whelan art: Del Rey edition 1979
Four Square UK edition cover artNew English Library paperback coverSynthetic Men of Mars on Methuen

Web Refs
ERB C.H.A.S.E.R. Online Encyclopedia
Hillman ERB Cosmos
Patrick Ewing's First Edition Determinors
John Coleman Burroughs Tribute
ERBList Summary by David Adams
J. Allen St. John Bio, Gallery & Links
Edgar Rice Burroughs: LifeLine Biography
Bob Zeuschner's ERB Bibliography
J.G. Huckenpohler's ERB Checklist
Burroughs Bibliophiles Bulletin
G. T. McWhorter's Burroughs Bulletin Index
ERBzine Guide to Barsoom
Bruce Wood's ERB Jacket Store
Ed Stephan's Tarzan of the Internet
Nick Knowles' ERB Paperback Collector
Illustrated Bibliography of ERB Pulp Magazines
Phil Normand's Recoverings
ERBzin-e Weekly Online Fanzine
ERB Emporium: Collectibles ~ Comics ~ BLBs ~ Pulps ~ Cards
ERBVILLE: ERB Public Domain Stories in PDF
Clark A. Brady's Burroughs Cyclopedia
Heins' Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bradford M. Day's Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Bibliography
Irwin Porges: The Man Who Created Tarzan
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