![]() ![]() What was the very first image of a thark? Which were the best? What is my favorite? Edgar Rice Burroughs describes the very first appearance of the Green Men of Mars thusly:įive or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. Critics always ask “Why is such a bad writer as Edgar Rice Burroughs still read avidly a hundred years later?” I know the answer. Here is adventure, wonder and excitement. So I took him home and I kept him (hoping to find his sword one day but I never did.) And I still look at him every-so-often and remember that twelve-year-old fascination. Here was that iconic figure, discarded along with the Ninja Turtles, Street Sharks and G. So some of that was floating around in my head when I saw that toy. Ballantine did not do my eyes any favors. Later I got a copy of The Princess of Mars featuring a thark and the most cramped text of all the Burroughs paperbacks. The ugly Gino D’Achille covers intrigued me with their weirdness, especially the one for The Mastermind of Mars with its four-armed giant white ape. I can recall being about twelve and finding copies of old Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks at my library. The image of a thark speaks to my deepest, youngest self. (If you push the purple button on his necklace he makes a silly screeching sound. Why? Was it because he didn’t have his sword, wasn’t in the packaging? No. My first thought was PROFIT! But I never sold that thark. A toy from the 1990s, sold alongside a Tarzan and John Carter figure. If I found a book about Betty Page for a quarter I smiled (to myself), knowing it would go for forty bucks in auction.) But there was this time…. ![]() (This was how I spent my sunny Saturday mornings back in the early 2000s. I was scoping out things at a garage sale, with every intent of reselling them on eBay, when I came upon a treasure. ![]()
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