EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 0748 presents 
PIRATES OF VENUS ERB started this new Venus (Amtor) series with Carson Napier in September 1931 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 0748 presents
PIRATES OF VENUS ERB started this new Venus (Amtor) series with Carson Napier in September 1931 |
PULP
Argosy Weekly: 1932 September 17, 24 ~ October 1, 8, 15, 22
Paul Stahr cover
in first issue ~ Samuel Cahan: one b/w interior per issue
FIRST EDITION
ERB Inc. Tarzana: February 15, 1934 ~ 314 pages
J. Allen St. John:
DJ and five b/w interiors ~ ERB: map of Amtor on endpages
REPRINT EDITIONS
ERB Inc. Tarzana: after February 1934
Grosset & Dunlap: 1935 ~ only four interiors
Grosset & Dunlap: 1940 ~ no interiors or endpapers map
ERB Inc. Tarzana: 1940 ~ DJ and frontispiece only
ERB Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948 ~ DJ and frontispiece only
Canaveral Press: November 16, 1962
J. Allen St. John:
DJ (adapted version of a St. John interior by Sam Sigaloff ) and four
interiors ~ ERB endpaper map
Ace paperback: January 1963 ~ at least two later printings ~ 173
pages
Roy G. Krenkel
cover and title page
Dover with Lost on Venus as: Two Novels by
ERB: November 1963 ~ 340 pages
Fortunino
Matania: cover and 25 interiors (from 1934 British weekly THE PASSING
SHOW)
Canaveral Press: 1975 reprint with black letters on red cloth
Ace paperback: March 1973 ~ 205 pages
Roy G. Krenkel
cover (originally on the Ace A Fighting Man of Mars)
Ace paperback: June 1979 ~ 205 pages
Esteban Maroto
cover
Ballantine - Del Rey: July 1991 ~ 183 pages
Richard Hescox cover
Pirates of Venus was the first of the Amtor/Venus series. Although first serialized in Argosy in 1932, it was later serialized in Passing Show Magazine in England, with the ERB, Inc. first edition hardcover appearing in February 15, 1934. The hero, Earthborn Carson, arrives on Venus in answer to telepathic messages. Through an error in trajectory calculation his Mars-bound spaceship lands on Venus. The story is a typically Burroughs with high adventure, fighting hero in a strange alien land, a beautiful princess, fantastic creatures and strange societies. As he has done in his previous alien worlds, ERB creates a new language with a written alphabet.. Reflecting the mood of the '30s, ERB has also included elements of political satire against communism (the Thorists).
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WEBMASTER:
BILL HILLMAN
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