I wish I could say that I had any real skill to kitbash a figure from scratch, but I do have a lot of patience, lots & lots of glue and a good eye for blending & assembling different pieces from disparate sources to make a pretty good costumed figure. The majority of the fun, while waiting for parts to wing their way via ebay, was the research: discovering the rich pictorial history of this character.

I settled on a custom Henry Cavill headsculpt as being appropriate for John Carter, because:-
1) it had more than a passing resemblance to illustrated depictions of Carter by Frazetta, Whelan and Jusko.
2) Cavill being the present cinematic incarnation of Superman- a character for whom John Carter has been, arguably, a progenitive inspiration for his creation in comics during the 1930s.

Custom 'Man of Steel' Clark Kent head
Coomodel rubber body & hands
Phicen male genitalia
Hot Toys Jack Sparrow boots
Hot Toys Jack Sparrow sabre (handle painted gold) & scabbard
Hot Toys Thor TDW cape
Hot Toys Captain Harlock pistol (painted gold) & holster
Phicen Huntress back armour as chest plate
Phicen Huntress vambraces
ACI Gladiator series kilt & harness
ACI pleather belt with Confederate States buckle