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Volume 1303
Presents
A Graphic Interpretation of
Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars
by
James Killian Spratt

CHAPTER 2
The Escape Of The Dead
A sense of delicious dreaminess overcame me. 
Then, for the first time, 
I noticed a slight vapor filling the cave, 
and a faintly pungent odor, and I could only assume
that I had been overcome by some poisonous gas , 
but why I should retain my mental faculties and 
yet be unable to move I could not fathom . . . 
The sound of approaching horses reached my ears. . .
I had not long to wait before a stealthy sound . . . 
then a war-bonneted, paint-streaked face . . . 
and savage eyes looked into mine. 
The fellow . . . merely stood and stared.

 
I was unable to move a muscle . . . 
as though turned to stone. 
Suddenly . . . a moaning sound issued from 
the recesses of the cave behind me. 
The Indians turned and fled in terror, 
panic-stricken. 
Then, about midnight . . . moaning  . . . 
rustling of dead leaves. 
I strove to break my bonds. 
A snap --
. . . nausea . . .
 


 
 

And then something gave, 
and there before me
lay my own body . . . 
and yet here I stood 
but naked as at 
the minute of my birth.







 

 
A repetition of the weird moan 
from the depths of the cave 
. . . I leapt quickly through the opening 
into the starlight of 
a clear Arizona night.
 


 

Pausing upon the brink of the ledge . . . 
I lifted my head to the heavens, 
riveted by a large red star -
in a spell of 
overwhelming fascination . . .





 

 
Mars . . . 
seemed to call across 
the unthinkable void. 
I stretched out my arms . . . 
and felt myself drawn 
with the suddenness of thought
through the trackless 
immensity of space.

 

 

There was an instant of extreme cold . . .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 

And utter darkness . . .





 

CONTENTS
Intro | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15a | 16 | 16a | 17 | 17a | 18 | 19 | 19a | 19b | 20 | 20a | 20b |
| 21 | 21a | 21b |

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