Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Weird Worlds #6 - Aug. 1973

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"Beneath the Omean Sea!" by Marv Wolfman and Sal Amendola.

John Carter, Tars Tarkas, and Thuvia are on their way to Helium:
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The airship crashed, Tars Tarkas and Thuvia are stranded miles away from Helium, under the broiling Martian sun.

They begin the arduous trek, only for Thuvia to collapse from exhaustion. Tars picks her up, and keeps going. Luckily, just as Tars begins to falter, a ship on its way to Helium spots them, and picks them up.

Back in Helium, Dejah Thoris worries where John Carter has been all this time. They get word that the "prisoners" found out in the desert are speaking of Carter, amid their delirium. Dejah visits them, only to hear Thuvia say that John Carter is dead!

As Dejah deals with the horrendous news, we see that Carter is, in fact, not dead just yet:
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...to be continued!


This issue looks a little more ragged than last issue--I get the sense there were little artistic touches put in by Amendola that just didn't reproduce very well--but John Carter, as a strip, certainly had a distinctive look, one that would continue through the strip's conclusion in Weird Worlds.



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