A book on the work of the illustrator J. Allen St. John concentrating on the artist's full-color fantasy, science-fiction, and adventure paintings for novels and pulp magazines by famous authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack WIlliamson, Robert E. Howard, and more. St. John is the original, grand illustrator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars (now in major motion-picture development by Pixar), and others. His illustrations inspired generations of later artists including Roy G. Krenkel, Jeffrey Jones, and Frank Frazetta. Also featured are essays by renowned science-fiction author Jack Williamson, Danton Burroughs, and Lin Carter, and illustrators Vincent Di Fate and Frank Frazetta.