I have planned some festivities for the upcoming centenary of the Burroughs Upheaval. Then, twenty years into the revolution, he fired off the few rounds of his “Venus” series.
into a nation of readers, and ERB fired the first two shots in the revolution. Pulp magazines existed before Edgar Rice Burroughs had the idea he could write better than the tripe found in the publications where he was working to place ads but it was the success of first Under the Moons of Mars (the serial title for A Princess of Mars) and then Tarzan of the Apes in 1912 that made the pulps into the artillery of the Reader Revolution. Fear of a Red Planet?) The effect these novels had on popular cultural was immense: they created a whole medium, they altered the nature of reading for pleasure. (The film is saddled with the unfortunately bland title of John Carter. Next year brings the hundredth anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s first two published novels: A Princess of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes, as well as a big-budget film version of A Princess of Mars from Disney.
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