Art by Neal Adams from Heritage Magazine in the 1970s. I don't know anything about the story behind these, and whether or not this was a project that Adams was working on or proposing.
This appears to be a sequence where Carson Napier has crashed landed on Mars/Barsoom, is later rescued by John Carter, and we discover Tarzan is in some sort of hibernation device.
Some people have theorized that the blonde guy is Flash Gordon (the belt and striped pants were standard parts of Flash's costume). However, as the rest of the characters are from Edgar Rice Burroughs' tales, it makes more since for him to be Carson of Venus. Especially if you remember that Carson was originally trying to get to Mars/Barsoom before his spaceship was thrown off course by the moon's gravity.
It's also interesting that Adams, for first time that I know of, depicted John Carter exactly as he's usually described in the Barsoom novels: naked except for his sword belt (it's not that he's a pervert; that's just the norm in Barsoomian culture).
I'd love to hear from anyone who has more information about these pictures and the story behind them.
