Thursday, April 28, 2011

John Carter, Warlord of Mars #24 - May 1979

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"Betrayal!" by Chris Claremont, Mike Vosburg, and Ricardo Villamonte.

When last we left her, Dejah Thoris was face-to-face with a Green Martian, all part of a series of tests conducted by The Guild of Assassins. John Carter, chained up, can only stand by and watch:
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The head of the conspirators, Lord Mordin, gives up trying to chase the escaped Dejah. He then sends members of the Guild to check out an alarm signal coming from the bowels of the ship.

The head of a group, a woman named Lleila, and some technicians split off from the main group, but they are quietly attacked by John Carter and Tars Tarkas, who then slip away into the ship's duct work.

When the other members of the group find their leader and fellow crew mates suddenly gone, they start a panicked ship-wide search for the attackers, which is what Carter had intended.

Meanwhile, back in the skies:
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To be continued?


I put a question mark at the end of this post because, on the letters page, Marvel announces this is the last issue of John Carter, Warlord of Mars! Editor Roger Stern (or whoever was writing the letters page) apologizes for ending the book in the middle of a storyline.

Of course, this wasn't the last issue...be back in two days to see what the future had in store for Marvel's John Carter!


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