Crossover Cover: Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds

 

On Amtor (Venus), Carson Napier encounters his old friend Jason Gridley and Victory Harben, who have found themselves being repeatedly transported through space. He also finds the body of a four-armed green man. Jason Gridley is a recurring character across Edgar Rice Burroughs’ various series. Victory Harben is the daughter of Nadok of the Voraki tribe of Pellucidar and Gretchen Von Harben from Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins. The green man is a Thark from Burroughs' Mars novels.

Also included is a bonus story by Christopher Paul Carey, "Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun," in which Jason and Victory find themselves transported across space and time. Victory’s father is Nadok of the Voraki tribe of Pellucidar, while her mother is Gretchen Von Harben, sister of Erich Von Harben. When Victory was eleven, she encountered a Mahar queen and decided to go to the outer world to broaden her knowledge. Initially, Victory lived in America with Captain Heinrich Hines of the O-220 and his wife Anna. Gridley previously contacted Victory via the Gridley Wave apparatus at the Greystokes’ Chamston-Hedding estate. The scientists of Barsoom were unable to provide an explanation for the Gridley Wave. Erich Von Harben is from Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Victory’s encounter with the Mahar queen Tu-al-sa (originally from the novel Pellucidar) is depicted in Win Scott Eckert’s Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar, which takes place in 1943. Heinrich Hines and the O-220 are from Tarzan at the Earth’s Core. In that book, Hines is the O-220's navigator, but in Russ Manning’s Sunday Tarzan comic strip stories involving Pellucidar, he is the captain. Battle for Pellucidar explains how this happened. The Greystokes are Tarzan and family. The Chamston-Hedding estate is from Jungle Tales of Tarzan.

These crossovers are two of over a thousand included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas

 

In 1930, Gretchen von Harben accompanies Jason Gridley and Captain Jason Connover on an expedition to Pellucidar aboard the airship Favonia. Gretchen’s brother Erich and Lord Greystoke are mentioned. An outcast group of Oparians once tried to appoint Gretchen their priestess of the Flaming God. The Favonia departed from Tyler Shipyards and Aeronautics in Santa Monica. Gretchen meets Omlot the Sagoth, who speaks a variation of Mangani, and Nadok the Voraki. Gretchen once contemplated killing a renegade Oparian named Gulm. In 1950, Gretchen relates this story to her and Nadok’s daughter Victory, who the Mahar Tu-al-sa showed an ancient tablet when she was younger. Gretchen von Harben and Gulm are from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion. Jason Gridley is a recurring character across Burroughs’ various series. The Favonia’s namesake and Erich von Harben are from Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Opar and the mangani are from the Tarzan books. Tyler Shipyards and Aeronautics is a reference to the company owned by Bowen Tyler’s family in Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy. Victory Harben is an original character appearing in the Swords of Eternity super-arc running through several of the new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novels. Victory met Tu-al-sa, who first appeared in Burroughs’ novel Pellucidar, in Win Scott Eckert’s novel Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Jane Porter and the City of Fire

 

Are you an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan?

Then you'll love this graphic novel featuring Tarzan's better half, which also has tie-ins to the Pellucidar series and the Caspak trilogy, as well as a reference to the awesome Victory Harben!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!