Introducing Pellucidar: The World at the Earth’s Core

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Another New Comic Strip Launch

When David Innes and Abner Perry build a revolutionary mining machine, their plan is to uncover vast mineral deposits far beneath the surface of the earth. But, on the “Iron Mole’s” first trip, they find themselves hurtling toward the center of the earth where death from the Earth’s molten mass of white-hot magma seems certain.

Instead, what Innes and Perry discover is that the earth’s crust is only 500 miles thick with an inner surface — and its inhabited! In Pellucidar, dinosaurs roam through jungles and saber-toothed tigers hunt mastodon and mammoth. A tiny sun, the molten core of the Earth, hangs in the center of the heavens, shedding perpetual daylight upon Pellucidar. Because the sun never sets, it is always “now” and there is no such thing as time. Stranger still, because Pellucidar rests on the inner side of the Earth’s crust, there is no horizon. The land curves upwards, as if you were standing on the inside of a gigantic bowl.

Humans dwell in Pellucidar — stone-age men and women who must fight to survive in this savage world. Even worse these humans have been made slaves of the Mahars, a race of intelligent but sinister reptiles who look upon humans as nothing more than beasts of burden or tasty snacks in one of their ghoulish ceremonies.

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Can David Innes and Abner Perry escape capture? Can they free humanity from the Mahar tyranny? And when David meets Dian the Beautiful who becomes his one true love, what struggles must he overcome before he can claim her as his own. And together, what adventures await them on Pellucidar?

Written by Chuck Dixon with years of experience in the graphic novel field and with Tom Lyle as the artist, this will be an entertaining addition to our Edgar Rice Burroughs Online Comic Strip complex. Just $1.99 per month. See free samples of all the strips and subscribe at http://edgarriceburroughs.com/comics .

TARZAN OF THE APES (TM) by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg
CARSON OF VENUS (TM) by Martin Powell, Thomas Floyd, and Diana Leto
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE (TM) by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon
THE WAR CHIEF(TM) by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko
THE CAVE GIRL (TM) by Martin Powell and Diana Leto (A Bi-Weekly)
PELLUCIDAR (TM) by Chuck Dixion and Tom Lyle

AND THERE ARE MORE TO COME!

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Elephants take revenge on village after herd member is struck by train

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Elephants!

A herd of wild elephants near the Muthanga wild life sanctuary at Muthanga in Kerala state, India. (AP Photo)It’s said that elephants never forget. Apparently it’s especially true when a herd suffers a loss.

Last week near the village of Matari in eastern India, a train struck and killed an elephant — an accident that is unfortunately commonplace in that region.

The response by the herd is more surprising.

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The Cave Girl, Another New Comic Strip Launch

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When money is no problem, people go on a south seas voyage. But the sea can be full of the unexpected. And if you’re unlucky enough to be swept overboard during a storm, your future is in others’ hands. This is what happened to Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, a blue-booded mama’s-boy who’s bookish education did not prepare him to cope with the jungle island that was to become his new home.

Waldo is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent, men-ape-like throwbacks from mankind’s evolutionary history. He runs from them but reaches a dead end! He turns and successfully makes a stand – astonishing himself as well as the brutes. He then meets a beautiful girl, Nadara, also on the run from them. In an uncharacteristic gesture, Waldo saves her from the grasp of an ape-man and they make their escape. Waldo is shocked that she believes him a hero, mistaking his frightened screams for war cries. She calls him Thandar, meaning the brave one.

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Nadara teaches Waldo her language, how to swim, how to fish, and basic woodcraft. Waldo begins to realize how little he really knows about survival. Nadara warns him that as a newcomer to the tribe he must fight the strongest men, who have killed many. When they reach her home village, he is horrified to see that despite her appearance, her tribe seems to be cavemen from the paleolithic era, not much better than the brutes he fought earlier. In order to avoid death at the hands of the tribal bullies, he vanishes.

For six months, Waldo makes weapons and trains himself for battle. He finds himself growing healthier due to the constant physical demands of primitive living. And, Waldo realizes he has a growing love for Nadara. Even when a ship arrives he declines to leave. Waldo searches for Nadara again but she and her tribe are gone – but where? What new adventures will he encounter as he searches for her? And if Waldo finds her, will his noble bloodline meld with her primitive upbringing?

Join the excitement. Start reading now at www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics! For just $1.99 per month you will have access to all these fabulous new weekly comic strips by terrific writers and artists:

TARZAN OF THE APES (TM) by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg
CARSON OF VENUS (TM) by Martin Powell, Thomas Floyd, and Diana Leto
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE (TM) by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon
THE WAR CHIEF(TM) by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko
THE CAVE GIRL (TM) by Martin Powell and Diana Leto (A Bi-Weekly)

AND THERE ARE MORE TO COME!

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Cuteness alert: White lion cubs look more like little puppies than big cats

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These photos might cause a double-take. Look closely: These white balls of fur aren’t puppies, or lambs, they’re lion cubs. And they’re adorable. The rare white color is due to a recessive gene. Seven of the cubs were born in captivity to three South African mama lions since last month. The baby white lions are being introduced by the zookeepers at Himeji Central Park in Japan later this week.

White Lion Cubs

There are only about 300 white lions left around the globe, according to the Daily Mail. The white lion—classified the same as its tan-colored counterpart—comes only from the Greater Timbavati region of South Africa, where they are considered a sacred species, according to the Global White Lion Protection Trust.

Nine-day-old lioness cubs are held by zoo keepers at Himeji Central Park on July 9, 2013 in Himeji, Japan. The seven white lioness cubs, given birth by three female South African Lions were born on June 6th, 26th and 30th. The cubs will be on public display for the first time later this week. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

Source: Yahoo News By Claudine Zap. No trademark infringement is intended

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New Comic Strip Launch – The War Chief

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THE WAR CHIEF is a realistic historical novel about life and death on an Apache reservation during the final days of the Apache Wars. Decades before the movie Dances With Wolves, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ great respect for the West and his compassion for the exploitative treatment of the Native Americans at the hands of the pin-dah-lickoyee (white eyes) caused him to write a story that is an honest and sympathetic portrait of native life that does credit to both the Natives and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The story revolves around Shoz-Dijiji a.k.a. Black Bear, son of Geronimo and once known as Andy MacDuff. Adopted by Geronimo as a baby, Shoz-Dijiji is Apache in everything but blood. His life gets complicated when he is influenced by his attraction to Wichita Billings, the daughter of a wealthy white rancher.

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Mr. Burroughs lived among the Apaches while in the US Army in 1897 while Stationed at Fort Grant in the Arizona desert. Burroughs penned a novel in vivid, realistic detail about day-to-day life on the Apache reservation. His Novel is high-level adventure during the Old West written by one who saw it with his own eyes.

Only $1.99 a month brings this western adventure and three other online weekly strips [Tarzan, Carson of Venus and Eternal Savage] onto your screen. Don’t miss a week of it! Subscribe today!

WRITER: MARTIN POWELL

Martin Powell, a professional writer since 1986, has written hundreds of stories in numerous genres for such Disney, Marvel, DC, and Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics and others. Nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award for his work with Sherlock Holmes, he has written for some of the most popular characters in the industry, including Superman, Batman, Popeye the Sailor, Tarzan of the Apes. He is currently the author of the online weekly comic strips Carson of Venus and The Eternal Savage for Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Martin has authored many children’s books, and is co-creator of the acclaimed Halloween Legion, with illustrator Diana Leto. Martin’s The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan won the coveted Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Best Graphic Novel of 2010.

ARTIST: NIK POLIWKO

Nik Poliwko is primarily a comic book artist and illustrator, who has also worked in computer animation and on television productions. His resume includes storyboarding for the original “Batman: The Animated Series” through Lightbox Studios in Toronto, as well as creating computer graphics for various TV series and movies, such as NBC’s “Shattered Promises.” Nik was also writer and artist of the official “Bob & Doug McKenzie” daily newspaper strip, based on the “Great White North” segment from the NBC series “SCTV”, and produced the book “Strange Brew”, a tie-in with the popular MGM cult movie “The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew.” In comics Nik has created material for a variety of publishers, including AC Comics, Monsterverse, Moonstone and Vortex among others, and has illustrated “Tarzan and the Native Boy” which appears in the “Jungle Tales of Tarzan” graphic novel from Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics.

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