One of the great masters of comic book art, Jesse Marsh is best remembered as the long-running artist on Dell's Tarzan comics (Marsh drew the first 153 issues, one of the longest unbroken runs in the history of comics).  Here at Copacetic, while we do, of course, have a great and abiding respect for Marsh's work on Tarzan, it is his modest three-issue run on that other Edgar Rice Burroughs creation, John Carter of Mars, that has long been our favorite of his works.  Marsh really shines here, with page after stunning page of fabulous work.  He manages to combine a 'fifties SF sensibility with pop abstractions derived from modern art and his own classic comics language that he developed on Tarzan for a career high work that is magnetically attractive; you can get lost in the pages.  This full color hardcover from Dark Horse contains good quality scans of every page of the original comic books, along with the front and back covers – and, thankfully, inside front and back covers as well.  Our only criticism is Dark Horse's continual reliance on glossy coated stock.  C'mon guys, wake up!   These works were originally printed on newsprint.  When you're printing scans of original comic book work, it needs to be printed on flat, uncoated, off-white stock.  Dark Horse is clearly doing the work a disservice by printing the interior pages on glossy white stock.  But this is a mere quibble next to the easy availability of this classic that this edition has now made possible.  Enjoyment of this classic is now only a couple clicks away!  Marsh's work was a fixture in the household of los hermanos Hernandez when they were growing up, and its influence is quite visible, in their work, especially that of Gilbert, whose line owes quite a bit to Marsh's (Gilbert's long focus landscapes and skyscapes are also very much indebted to Marsh's example), so it is quite fitting that the forward to this volume is by Mario Hernandez, the eldest, who would have likely been the one to have first brought these comics home and introduced them to his bros; and its inclusion more than makes up for the aesthetic damage of glossy stock.  Here's hoping that this book is the success that it deserves to be, that it sells out and requires a second printing, and that the powers that be at Dark Horse wise up and select a more suitable paper stock for the second printing.  This work is good enough that it would be worth buying again if they do!