Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Animated TV Series in Development

Posted on February 19, 2025

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 (Tarzana, California) Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by the creator of Tarzan® and John Carter of Mars®, and Flying S Films LLC, a Seattle-based studio dedicated to producing unique feature film and episodic properties for a worldwide audience, are excited to announce a partnership to develop an animated television series featuring the sci-fi protagonist Victory Harben™. In the show, Victory will find herself hurled into adventures alongside an array of iconic heroes such as Tarzan®, Jane Porter®, John Carter®, Dejah Thoris®, Carson of Venus®, and other characters inhabiting the rich science fiction and fantasy setting of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ (ERB Universe™).

The team at Flying S Films is headed by showrunner Scott Swan and producer Stuart Lowder, with Swan and Taylor Lowder on board to write the series. Rounding out the team is Ray Hansel Morales as line producer and Gene Alexander as executive producer.

Showrunner Scott Swan states, “It is my conviction that the upcoming success of the Victory Harben animated series lies in a deep love and abiding respect for the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The scope, majesty, richness of the ERB Universe, combined with the complexity of the Victory Harben character, will allow us to create a series that captivates new audiences and delights longtime fans.”

“Long before anyone ever conceived of comic book and cinematic universes,” says Wolf Larson, head of ERB Entertainment, the film and television division of ERB, Inc., “Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cosmos of extraordinary worlds and heroes that crossed over in the storylines of his many best-selling novels and series: tales of Tarzan®, Barsoom® (Mars), Amtor™ (Venus), Pellucidar® (the prehistoric world At the Earth’s Core™), The Land That Time Forgot®, and Beyond the Farthest Star™, to name only a few. The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe is one of the most expansive and rollicking adventure settings ever to appear in popular culture. Now, for the first time, we are thrilled to see the whole interconnected ERB Universe being developed for the screen by the top-notch creative talent at Flying S Films.”

Victory Harben first appeared in a new series of novels, short stories, comic books, and graphic novels published and licensed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and was recently featured prominently in a collectible card game and other merchandise. The character is the creation of ERB Universe creative director Christopher Paul Carey, who also holds the role of Vice President of Publishing at the company.

“Victory Harben is the perfect gateway to the ERB Universe,” says Jim Sullos, President of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. “She’s smart, likable, and during the course of her adventures will come to find her place in the heroic lineage of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ literary creations. We are extremely pleased with the vision Flying S Films is bringing to the project, and look forward to audiences accompanying Victory on her fantastic escapades and becoming enchanted with Mr. Burroughs’ universe of high adventure.”

ABOUT EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC.

From its headquarters in Tarzana, California, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., administers the intellectual property of American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and enduring writers. Mr. Burroughs’ stories have been adapted into 60 films and 250 television episodes, and are featured in comic books, video games, apparel, and other merchandise. Through worldwide ownership of copyrights and trademarks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., oversees authorized adaptations of his literary works in film, television, radio, publishing, theatrical stage productions, licensing, and merchandising. The company is owned by Mr. Burroughs’ heirs and continues to operate from offices the author built in 1927 on the site of his former Tarzana ranch in the San Fernando Valley.

ABOUT FLYING S FILMS

Flying S Films, headquartered in Edmonds, Washington, is centered on the partnership of Scott Swan and Stuart Lowder. Long-term animation and video game professionals, Scott has been involved with the production of multiple video game titles at EA, Microsoft, and THQ, along with animated films Valiant and Happy Feet. Stuart is best known for his work on Carmen Sandiego games and the animated features Happy Feet, Where the Wild Things Are, Scoob!, and Tom and Jerry.

For more information, please contact:
James Sullos, President, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., jsullos@erburroughs.com
Wolf Larson, Vice President, ERB Entertainment, wolflarson@erburroughs.com
Scott Swan, Showrunner, Flying S Films LLC, sswan@flyingsfilms.com
Stuart Lowder, Producer, Flying S Films LLC, slowder@flyingsfilms.com

Download Press Release PDF: Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Animated TV Series in Development

Victory Harben art by Alessandro Ranaldi and Bruna Costa © Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Edgar Rice Burroughs®, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™, ERB Universe™, Victory Harben™, Tarzan®, Jane Porter®, John Carter®, John Carter of Mars®, Dejah Thoris®, Barsoom®, Carson of Venus®, Amtor™, Pellucidar®, At the Earth’s Core™, The Land That Time Forgot®, and Beyond the Farthest Star™ Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

Preorder Now: Jane Porter® and the City of Fire Graphic Novel—Mass Market Edition

Posted on April 11, 2023

Cover art by Miriana Puglia & Periya Pillai

For generations, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ tales of Tarzan® and Jane Porter® have thrilled audiences the world over, but now ERB, Inc., is revealing that Jane Porter has been having her share of incredible solo adventures! One such tale is Jane Porter and the City of Fire, a 72-page full-color graphic novel, the first in our new line of Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated Epics™.

Picking up where Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril left off and set in the year 1952, Jane is tasked with delivering three revived prehistoric creatures to the savage land of Pellucidar®, the world at the Earth’s core. With the help of the crew of the fantastic vacuum airship Favonia, Jane’s routine mission will take a terrifying turn when the Favonia encounters an incredible phenomenon that leads it not to Pellucidar, but to an alien world far from Earth and into a nightmare scenario that could spell doom for an entire planet!

The sci-fi thrill ride that is Jane Porter and the City of Fire was written by Mike Wolfer (The Monster Men™, The Moon Maid™, The Land That Time Forgot®, and many others) and illustrated by Miriana Puglia (The Moon Maid: The Three Keys, Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas). Interior color is provided by Arthur Hesli (Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas, Beyond the Farthest Star™: Warriors of Zandar), with lettering by Natalie Jane (all of the above projects and more). The cover of this Mass Market Edition was illustrated by Miriana Puglia and colored by Periya Pillai.

This new chapter in the unfolding tale of Jane Porter is official Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ canon, and long-time Burroughs fans will delight in the plot threads and connections to other Burroughs works. When the Hollywood film industry was still in its infancy, “The Master of Adventure” was already exploring the shared universe concept, crossing over several of his most popular properties, and you’ll see that concept in play in this all-new tale of danger and intrigue. But you don’t have to be a Burroughs fanatic to love Jane Porter and the City of Fire; everything you’ll need to know is built into the story and this tale is designed for readers who are new to the ever-expanding Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe!

The Jane Porter and the City of Fire Mass Market Edition graphic novel is expected to ship to customers in Spring 2023.

Get a Collectible ERB Universe Timeline Trading Card with Preorder!

All preorders of Jane Porter and the City of Fire will come with a free collectible ERB Universe Timeline Card featuring Carson of Venus!

Timeline Cards are a brand-new line of trading cards from ERB, Inc. Each card is 2.5″ x 3.5″ and will feature a different event from across the vast history of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. When placed side by side, they’ll form a timeline chronicling decades of fantastic adventure! Watch for the release of more Timeline Cards in future Kickstarter campaigns, special events, and select direct orders from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.!

Preorder your copy of Jane Porter and the City of Fire today!

See Where It All Began!

Don’t miss out on the Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril one-shot comic book, the thrilling prelude to the events portrayed in Jane Porter and the City of Fire—now available in a Mass Market edition!

Archaeologist Jane Porter returns to her dig site in the Aleutian Islands to find it taken over by her nemesis, a rival scientist whose evil plans begin with resurrecting terrors of the past—and will only lead to a horror even more unthinkable.

Shipping Update: Tarzan Books #17–20

We are waiting for Tarzan books #17–20 in the ERB Authorized Library to arrive from the printer. Based on the printer’s revised estimates, we are now expecting the books to arrive in our warehouse in May, at which time we will prep the preorders and beginning shipping them out to customers. Thank you for your patience! It shouldn’t be long now, and you’ll be happy to hear that our plan is to both announce and ship the next set of Tarzan books by the end of the year!

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Jane Porter®, Tarzan®, Pellucidar®, At the Earth’s Core™, Carson of Venus®, The Land That Time Forgot®, The Moon Maid™, The Monster Men™, Beyond the Farthest Star™, Edgar Rice Burroughs®, Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library™, ERB Authorized Library™, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™, and Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated Epics™ owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

Live on Kickstarter: Jane Porter® and the City of Fire Graphic Novel Campaign

Posted on November 3, 2022

Become a Backer of the Jane Porter and the City of Fire Kickstarter Today!

It’s Tarzan’s Jane Porter as you’ve never seen her before, starring in the first-ever graphic novel published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Jane Porter and the City of Fire is an all-new canonical graphic novel now funding through Kickstarter, and it’s only on Kickstarter that you’ll find an incredible assortment of variant covers and Jane Porter collectibles available nowhere else! This pulse-pounding tale follows the successful Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril one-shot comic published by ERB, Inc., in 2021.

Backers to the campaign will be able to choose between two cover variants: one by graphic novel artist Miriana Puglia and the other by Alessandro Ranaldi, the illustrator of Beyond the Farthest Star: Warriors of Zandar. Also available is a third edition sporting a photo cover featuring Charlotte Kay as Jane Porter. This special variant will be an autographed and numbered edition, limited to the number of backers who add it to their rewards. In addition, backers will be able to get their hands on the very first Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Timeline trading card, a postcard of the airship Favonia, a commemorative Jane Porter coin celebrating the centennial of ERB, Inc., and much more!

The Kickstarter campaign for Jane Porter and the City of Fire can be found at here. Join us in making history by helping to fund the production of the very first graphic novel published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and don’t forget: The editions of Jane Porter and the City of Fire that you’ll receive as rewards are exclusive to this campaign and will be offered nowhere else!

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Jane Porter®, Tarzan®, Pellucidar®, At the Earth’s Core®, and Beyond the Farthest Star™ Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

New Online Comic Strip: Jane Porter® Untamed

Posted on October 12, 2022

When we first meet Jane Porter in the novel Tarzan of the Apes, she is an intelligent and beautiful eighteen-year-old woman with little experience in the larger world, dedicated to helping her father in his studies of lost civilizations. But after she meets Tarzan, her life changes forever, as she is thrust into a life of continuous adventure and unremitting peril. Now, in the latest ERB online comic strip, Jane Porter Untamed, she transforms into a full-fledged hero, capable of standing on her own against the most daunting challenges and diving headlong into her own daring exploits!

This is a Jane like you have never seen her before—independent, able, and as resourceful as Tarzan and versatile as her ape friends. Her exciting new tales are presented by prolific writer, Martin Powell; new artist, David Matsuoka; and our frequent colorist and letterer, Maggie Lopez.

Take up the adventure with Jane Porter Untamed by subscribing to our exciting online comic strip program at www.erburroughs.com, where you will enter a gateway to all theliterary creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Master of Adventure!

Subscribe to our Edgar Rice Burroughs Online Comic Strips and read the first episode of Jane Porter Untamed today, with many more to follow!

The Creative Team

Writer

Martin Powell has written hundreds of stories in numerous genres for Disney, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Capstone Books, among others. Nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award for his work with Sherlock Holmes, he has written many of the most popular characters in the industry, including Superman, Batman, Popeye the Sailor, Dracula, Frankenstein, and Tarzan of the Apes.

Currently, as the author of over 2,500 ERB online comic strips, and the critically acclaimed Jungle Tales of Tarzan graphic novel from Dark Horse, Powell has written more Edgar Rice Burroughs characters than any other contemporary writer.

He received the coveted Golden Lion Award from the Burroughs Bibliophiles in 2017 for his ongoing contributions to the legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Artist

David Matsuoka is a freelance artist and illustrator. He has been a fan of comics and movies all his life and has been drawing ever since he first picked up a crayon (or so his mother has said). Born and raised in California, he currently resides in San Jose. He studied graphic design/illustration at San Jose State University and graduated with a BA. After this, he worked for thirty-eight years with one company before retiring as Marketing Manager. He began comic illustrating late in life beginning with Antarctic Press, AC Comics, and Black Swan Press. He currently illustrates Martin Powell’s latest ERB adventure, Jane Porter Untamed.

Colorist and Letterer

Residing in Asunción-Paraguay, Maggie Lopez is a student of graphic design as well as a rising artist in the comics and animation industry.

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Jane Porter®, Tarzan®, Tarzan of the Apes™, and Edgar Rice Burroughs® Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

Now Shipping: Jane Porter™: The Primordial Peril
Mass Market Edition

Posted on February 18, 2022

Tarzana, California (February 18, 2022) – Today Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., is thrilled to announce that Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril—the first mass market edition from its new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Illustrated Epics line of comic books and graphic novels—is now available to order and shipping to customers! First launched and funded last year on Kickstarter, Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril features Tarzan’s Jane Porter diving into her own adventure in this historic comic book published the company founded by Edgar Rice Burroughs himself.

Not Your Average Jane

Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril is a 32-page comic book with a full 24 pages of story. It is written by Mike Wolfer, with the story, series concept, and expanded canon by ERB, Inc.’s Director of Publishing Christopher Paul Carey and Wolfer. The brand-new cover art for this mass market edition is by Miriana Puglia and the interior art is by acclaimed illustrator Roy Allan Martinez, with lettering by Natalie Jane. Rounding out the creative team is interior colorist Diego Vazquez and cover colorist Bruna Costa. This is the first-ever comic book story published directly by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by Mr. Burroughs in 1923, making it a unique, must-have item for your comic book and Edgar Rice Burroughs collections.

Order your copy of the Jane Porter: The Primordial Peril mass market edition today—and keep your Gridley Wave sets tuned to ERBurroughs.com, and our official Kickstarter, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts, for more exciting ERB Universe Illustrated Epics coming your way soon!

Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Illustrated Epics™

For decades, various publishers have presented the classic characters of Edgar Rice Burroughs in comic-book format, but never has ERB, Inc., released its own comic books and graphic novels…until now! ERB Universe Illustrated Epics is an all-new line of comics and graphic novels that perfectly captures the high adventure of ERB’s literary works in new, canonical tales created and approved by the company itself. Crafted with an eye for accuracy and loyalty to the source material, each ERB Universe Illustrated Epic will thrill and excite fans of each franchise, while progressing characters and storylines in organic directions that carry them beyond the boundaries of the original classic novels into unexplored realms. You’ll also be introduced to brand-new heroes and villains of the ERB pantheon in colorful science-fiction epics that will have you on the edge of your seat!

Follow Us On Kickstarter!

Get the first look at each ERB Universe Illustrated Epic as it launches on Kickstarter! Just create a Kickstarter account or sign into your existing account, then click on the “Follow” button on ERB, Inc.’s Kickstarter profile page to be notified each time we have a new campaign ready for launch! Special Note: Our Kickstarter campaigns offer collectible Kickstarter exclusive and variant editions, along with other merchandise, that will never be made available anywhere else.

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Jane Porter™, Tarzan®, Tarzan of the Apes™, Edgar Rice Burroughs®, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Illustrated Epics™, and Illustrated Epics™ Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.