#Thuvia Maid of Mars

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars Art by William Stout

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Frazetta Friday!

Love her tummy❣️😍

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Michael Whelan's cover for Edgar Rice Burroughs' Thuvia, Maid of Mars, the fourth novel in the Barsoom series.

Whelan stated that he originally did not paint any clothes on Thuvia, keeping with Barsoomian tradition. Someone at Del Rey/Ballantine Books (the publisher that commissioned these covers) objected to the nudity. So Whelan used a quick daub of transparent gauche to cover her up. Whelan said the gauche would be easy to remove, if he were inclined to do so, without damaging the rest of the painting.

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'The Banth' by Frank Frazetta.

Interior illustration from the 'Thuvia, Maid Of Mars' / The Chessmen Of Mars' omnibus edition paperback, books 4 and 5 of the 'Barsoom / Mars' series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1973 by Nelson Doubleday.

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Michael Whelan “Thuvia, Maid of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1979) Source (Whelan’s Bluesky)

“Detailed pencil study of Thuvia and the 8-legged Martian lion in the pose of the cover painting. In the upper right margin is a delicate line drawing of her face in profile as she turns to look over her shoulder.”

“I had to be careful with Thuvia, as everyone on Barsoom goes nude, and yet full-frontal nudity was unacceptable for the cover. By turning her away from the viewer, I thought I had this problem solved, but Lester Del Rey had me add the G-string. The rest of the painting is in acrylics, but I did that G-string in gouache in case I ever get the urge to wipe it off.”

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars cover illustration - 1969.

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society if instead of just grabbing the generic rapey villain ball jav had gotten to be thuvia and carthoris' weird third wheel for the rest of the book

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Frank Frazetta (1974)

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Art by Michael Whelan.

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

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thuvia, maid of mars by edgar rice burroughs

first pinnacle books printing, 1953

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Mars Read: Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916) http://dlvr.it/T7zRNg

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Dave Cockrum.

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'Headless Body Moved' by Frank Frazetta.

Interior illustration from the 'Thuvia, Maid Of Mars' / The Chessmen Of Mars' omnibus edition paperback, books 4 and 5 of the 'Barsoom / Mars' series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1973 by Nelson Doubleday.

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J. Allen St. John “Thuvia, Maid of Mars” (1920)

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