"John Carter," drawn by John Coleman Burroughs, appeared briefly as a Sunday comic strip in 1941-1943, but none of Burroughs's other characters achieved the remarkable marketing success of Tarzan. In the paperback revival, however, the Carter and Pellucidar series, especially, gained immensely from the artwork, and these fantasy creations may have become even more popular than the ape-man.

Today, Carter and some of Burroughs's other heroes appear only in comic books.

Yet Burroughs's works continue to be reissued, though probably appealing to a younger audience than the originals. Nevertheless, they remain examples of pure pulp entertainment from the past, still interesting diversions which reveal the remarkable imaginative power with which Burroughs created his fantastic worlds. His occasional realistic novels, such as The Mucker (1914) and The Girl from Hollywood (1922), upon which he hoped to advance some claims to "serious" writing, suffer from the same weak dialogue, poor plotting, and...