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KRAKAS

Real Name: Krakas

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Martian (Green Martian)) (late 19th Century)

Occupation: (Low-level) commander in the Warhoon tribe

Group Membership: Warhoon

Affiliations: Gagarr, Grunt-Ar, other Warhoon loyal to him, Stara Kan

Enemies: John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Dejah Thoris

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Zodanga, Mars;
   formerly Warhoon territory, Mars

First Appearance: John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1 (June, 1977)

Powers/Abilities: Warhoon are the most war-like and cruel of the six-limbed Green Martian tribes, and Krakas is no exception. He is a skilled with swords and compensates for his severed lower left arm by using more weapons than a regular Green Martian warrior, including a shield. He has apparently adjusted his weight difference on his left side by adding a left-mounted armored shoulder carapace.

Height: 15'
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Black
Hair: None

History:

(John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1 (fb) - BTS) - Green Martian Krakas of the brutal Warhoon tribe lost his lower left forearm to a Red Martian (presumably in battle). Much later, genocidal racial supremacist Stara Kan had Red Martian Princess Dejah Thoris captured to extract the secrets of planet Mars' life-sustaining atmosphere factory. Kan had Krakas interrogate her in the abandoned ruins of Zodanga city. Kan warned Krakas that Thoris' devoted Earthman husband John Carter would find him to rescue Thoris. Krakas had many guards, including Grunt-Ar, patrolling the ruins, while he supervised the callous interrogation of chained Thoris by Gagarr, watched by other Warhoon warriors. Thoris and Carter's Green Martian friend (of the rival Thark tribe) had also been captured and chained to a column.

(John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1) - Via their telepathic link, Carter knew Thoris had been taken to Zodanga. Carter's enhanced Earthman physical prowess (due to Mars' lower gravity) helped him eliminate his foes, and he learned Thoris' exact location in the tower and bounded up there. Meanwhile, Krakas had Gagarr strike Thoris multiple times to glean the secret information with no success. Carter arrived and killed Gagarr, then challenged Krakas after slaying the other Warhoon warriors there. Krakas armed himself heavily with two swords and a shield, and the two fought fiercely but briefly, with nimble Carter proving the quicker, and Krakas died with Carter's sword plunged deep in his chest.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman, Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum. Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

    Chronology-wise, as defined in Marv Wolfman's editorial in John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1, Marvel's stories (unless they stated otherwise) were set "between paragraphs 3 and 4 in Chapter 27 of Edgar Rice Burroughs' book A Princess of Mars" (that text finishes with a non-descript sentence of a nine-year period where newly married Carter "served in the councils and fought in the armies of Helium as a prince"). So Marvel certainly saw it as in-continuity with Burroughs' works... but Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. seems to only recognize comics published by American Mythology since 2020 as canon.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Krakas has no known connections to:


Gagarr

Green Martian Gagarr of the brutal Warhoon tribe was Krakas' main torturer after they abducted Red Martian Princess Dejah Thoris and tried to extract the secrets of planet Mars' life-sustaining atmosphere factory for the genocidal racial supremacist Stara Kan. Krakas and several other Warhoon warriors watched on as Gagarr brutalized the chained Thoris until her devoted husband John Carter arrived and killed Gagarr with a sword thrown through his chest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1


Grunt-Ar

Grunt-Ar was a Green Martian of the savage Warhoon tribe. He was part of a group commanded by Krakas and guarded the area in the Zodonga ruins in anticipation of a rescue effort after their kidnapping of Red Martian Princess Dejah Thoris for the genocidal racial supremacist Stara Kan. Thoris' devoted husband, the Earthman John Carter, soon arrived and fought multiple Warhoon warriors, his enhanced Earthman physical prowess (due to Mars' lower gravity) helping him to eliminate his foes, including the over-confident warrior Grunt-Ar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1


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John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1, p13, pan4 (main image)
   p16, pan1 (headshot)
   p14, pan2 (Gagarr)
   p9, pan2 (Grunt-Ar)


Appearances:
John Carter, Warlord of Mars#1 (June, 1977) - Marv Wolfman (writer), Gil Kane (pencils), Dave Cockrum (inks), Marv Wolfman (editor)


First posted: 03/14/2025
Last updated: 03/14/2025

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