After the success of Princess of Mars and the other Barsoom tales...
..."scientific
romances" became a major genre in pulp fiction, with tales of Earthmen
transported to alien worlds appearing in both genre and mainstream
magazines!
One of the more successful "high-adventure on other worlds" series was the Radio Man saga by Ralph Milne Farley.
Set on Venus, the tales of radio expert Miles Cabot
were different enough from John Carter's adventures to warrant a
half-dozen magazine serials, all of which were compiled as stand-alone
novels.
Here's a kool article about the series at ERB.com.
The first story, Radio Man, was retitled Earth Man on Venus when Avon reprinted it in the 1950s.
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| Art by Ray Johnson |
Simultaneous
with the reprint was a one-shot comic adaptation illustrated by Wally
Wood with Joe Orlando and Sid Check doing inking and minor redrawing.
(The adaptation's scripter is unknown.)
Ironically,
the comic book version has been reprinted numerous times, and is
probably far more familiar to current sci-fi fans than the original
story (which is a shame, since the novel is pretty good)!
