Same Story, Different Cover: Wonder if he'll ever know / He's in the best selling show

L: Four Color #375 (Dell, February 1952), pencils and inks by Jesse Marsh
R: John Carter of Mars #1 (Gold Key, April 1964), pencils and inks by Jesse Marsh
(art originally published as the back cover pin-up of Four-Color #375)

L: Four Color #437 (Dell, November 1952), pencils and inks by Jesse Marsh
R: John Carter of Mars #3 (Gold Key, October 1964), pencils and inks by Jesse Marsh

L: Four Color #488 (Dell, 1953), artist unknown
R: John Carter of Mars #2 (Gold Key, October 1964), pencils and inks by Jesse Marsh
(art originally published as the back cover pin-up of Four-Color #488)
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Wait just one Martian minute...why does Gold Key John Carter #2 go with the third in the Four Color series? Because Dell originally published the three Four Color tales out of order...#488 should have been published between #375 and 437. The Gold Key reprints restored the intended order. Another error: "The Gods of Mars" title on the cover of Gold Key John Carter #2 is a mistake...it was actually adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs book The Warlord of Mars.

Finally, jus' because I love it so much, here's Jesse March's back cover pin-up from Four Color #437, featuring perhaps the most demure Dejah Thoris of them all! I love that coloring, and the penwork reminds me of Jaime Hernandez...anybody know if Hernandez is/was a fan of Marsh?