The latest “ERBzine”, an electronic periodical dedicated to the study, critical analysis and promotion of the works of virtually everything Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote, said, did, or even vaguely touched in his lifetime and after. It is a rambling good read if you like ERB; maybe a little disjointed if you do not. I personally like the Barsoom novels the best, so I usually give ERBzine a glance. This issue (number 2894! really!), I was astonished to see a blast from the past: HERITAGE JOHN CARTER OF MARS FIGURES.
If you don’t know what I am talking about, shame ON you, and scurry off now to the Edgar Rice Burroughs Free online library and remedy that. Start with A PRINCESS OF MARS. You can thank me later. For those of you who do know what I’m talking about, you know that the “John Carter books”, or the “Barsoom series”, is a great rip-snorting pulp science fantasy with some of the most visual alien critters ever to grace a page.
Heritage Models, Inc. was one of those great miniature companies of the 1970s– they seemed to be in front of every trend out there– Star Trek miniatures, the earliest D&D figures (I owned several of them) as well as historical subjects. They also, for a brief period of time, owned the rights to cast figures derived from characters and creatures in the ERB universe (Barsoom only, apparently). The reason this section of ERBzine 2894 is so poignant to me is that I actually owned several of the figures on the page. Green Tharks and red helium men and women. I remember painting the topless women figures with special pre-pubescent glee. So it was with the astonishment of recognition and nostalgia that I recognized some of these things in their Heritage Barsoom figures tribute page.
It’s funny how memory plays tricks on you. These aren’t very impressive by modern standards.
The Thark looks like it’s sculpted for comedic value. Some of the human figures look like sculpting accidents, not real humans, or more appropriately, real Barsoomians.
The Entire Range:
SF 1 Red Martian Chief
SF 2 Red Martian warrior with Radium rifle
SF 3 Red Martian warrior with sword and dagger
SF 4 Red Martian maiden with pistol
SF 5 Black Martian with Radium rifle
SF 6 White Martian Chief
SF 7 White Martian warrior with sword
SF 8 Green Martian Chief
SF 9 Green Martian warrior
SF10 John Carter – Martian Warlord
SF11 Red Martian Princess
SF12 White Ape
SF13 Plant Man
SF14 Banth, the Martian Lion
SF15 no information
SF16 Red Martian mounted on thoat
SF17 Green Martian mounted on large thoat
The figures are poorly cast, again by contemporary standards; yet they certainly convey the characters and creatures they meant to back in the late 70s. The vaguely humanoid races, with proper paint jobs, convey the menace that the stories had in spades. Funny thing, memory.. I played games with Barsoomians even more than I ever did with D&D figures. And I played a lot of D&D back in the day. So they have a certain something beyond nostalgia factor.
To catch ERBzine’s excellent Heritage Figures Barsoom Miniatures tribute page, CLICK HERE and enjoy.
Third Point of Singularity 
Many of Grenadier’s Gamma World figures came from their attempt to start a John Carter line, look for humans in harnesses with swords. Then they found out that they would have to buy rights so they dropped it and called them Gamma World guys instead.
you list the hinchcliff martian range not the heritage one i have some of these figures .different to the photos which are heritage .the hinchcliffe ones were in my opinion better models but did not follow the book desciptions very well. take a look at bronze age miniatures .to see what martians should look like