
“Fairy Tales”
Writer: Ron Marz
Artist: Andres Labrada
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess of Helium named Dejah Thoris. One day her father married a woman who was jealous of her beauty. She conspired with a guard to have her taken out and killed. Only the guard couldn’t go through with it and instead abandoned her. Dejah has to fight a banth which she kills before being knocked out. She wakes to find that seven Tharks found her. These Tharks are outcasts from their tribe and Dejah joins them. Word gets back to the evil queen and she disguises herself as an old woman. She approaches Dejah and knocks her out with a powder. Before she can kill her, the Tharks arrive and she flees. The Tharks can’t revive her but John Carter comes on a mission from her father. He kisses her and awakes her from the slumber. Taking her back, Dejah confronts the evil queen and kills her. Back in the real world John Carter finishes telling his children a bedtime story.
The third and final fairy tales special. I think this was the best one. Obviously it was Dejah Thoris as Snow White and instead of dwarves she had Tharks. Stuck very closely to the fable only giving it a Barsoomian twist. I loved the ending where we find out it was John Carter telling an old Earth bedtime story to his kids. It fit in nicely as being believable and not just a made up world.