Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Princess of Doom!"

We Have Already Seen...

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Well, we've gone totally-off script from the ERB novella!

Not to mention...what's up with Tangor's hair???

Did he find an unlimited mousse supply somewhere?

Murphy Anderson handled the art duties on this never-reprinted installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #218 (1973) with his usual classic-style finesse.

The question is...who scripted it?
Various sources attribute either Marv Wolfman or Denny O'Neil, with no definitive answer available.
This open-ended chapter ended the strip's run in Tarzan...but there's one more tale to tell...as you'll see next week!

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Forest of Peril!"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...wait..."Lt James Farnsworth"?

Tangor's original name was never mentioned in either of the short stories that made up Beyond the Farthest Star!

Well, since we've already diverged from the source material, let's see where this leads...

Murphy Anderson takes over the art duties on the series with this never-reprinted installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #217 (1973).

The question is...who scripted it?
Various sources attribute either Marv Wolfman or Denny O'Neil, with no definitive answer available. 

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Test Pilot"

We Have Already Seen...

...note that, at this point, the story has diverged from the novel.

Howard Chaykin assumes this art duties for this issue, continuing the adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' only "hard sci-fi" story (as compared to the "scientific romances" of John Carter and Carson of Venus) with this fast-paced, never-reprinted installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #216 (1973).
The question is...who scripted it?
Various sources attribute either Marv Wolfman or Denny O'Neil, with no definitive answer available.

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Planet-Hopper"

When Last We Left the American Aviator Now Known as Tangor...

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Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Dan Green continue their adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' only "hard sci-fi" story (as compared to the "scientific romances" of John Carter and Carson of Venus)
 with this fast-paced installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #215 (1972).

BTW, This chapter's slightly-weird title was taken from the "next issue" blurb on the final page of the previous installment.

So don't blame me.

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Tangor Joins the Fight"

We Have Already Seen...

...ok, it's been five years between chapters, but we've been busy!

Just go with it...

Written by Burroughs in 1940 and published in 1942, the story is basically an updating of John Carter of Mars or Carson of Venus but set "present-day" and with no hope of return to Earth since his body was destroyed in the rocket explosion.

In addition, the world our hero ends up on is not the high-adventure fantasyland of Barsoom, but the planet Poloda, where a technologically-advanced version of the Cold War between America and the USSR (with elements of Nazism) in the 1950s is being waged!

(There's an excellent piece about history behind the story HERE.)

Adapted by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by the highly-underrated Dan Green, this never-reprinted chapter from Tarzan #214 (1972) takes considerable liberties with the original storyline.
Our previous Wednesday Worlds of Wonder series, Carson of Venus, received great viewing numbers, so we thought we'd go with another Edgar Rice Burroughs series that hasn't been reprinted.
The first chapter appeared HERE, so you haven't missed anything, True Believer!

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The First Earthman on Mars...

With The Martian hitting theatres today...

...we thought it'd be fun to re-present a much earlier tale of a human on Mars.

In fact, it's so old that it wasn't even called "science fiction"!

It was a "scientific romance"!

...and, unlike The Martian, this Earthman found the Red Planet teeming with life!
Start HERE, and you'll be able to see the entire saga by clicking on the links at the end of each chapter!

Arena by Fredric Brown

"Arena" by Fredric Brown was adapted (sort of) twice for TV...

...first, in 1964, on the Outer Limits as "Fun and Games", starring Nick Adams.

You'll note a number of differences between the story and the episode, including a pair of new characters, a mate for the alien, and a woman with a hidden past who works with the hero!

A year later the story was reused, on Classic Star Trek as "Arena"...

...except it wasn't...exactly.

Gene Roddenberry's right hand man, producer Gene Coon, had submitted a story about Capt. Kirk fighting an alien starship commander to see whose ship would survive.

When the story was fact-checked, it was discovered that Coon had inadvertantly used numerous elements from Brown's story, which Gene had probably read years earlier!