READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
among the banths at the other end of the throne room,
mounted on huge, savage thoats. These Torquasians carried
great, long lances, and as they possessed four arms they were
able to carry on a battle with long and short sword simultaneously,
the while their ferocious thoats defended themselves
formidably against the Barsoomian lions.
The bowmen brought some of these charging warriors
down with their silent arrows, but yet others charged over
the carcasses of fallen warrior and thoat alike, determined to
reach Kar Komak, whose artificially colored red skin and
short-cropped, black-dyed hair seemed to single him out as
the principal target.
In the midst of a death-cut through the great body of a
green opponent, Kar Komak suddenly saw a huge thoat and
a towering, grinning green man who wore the metal of a jed
looming upon him. Before he could raise his sword to defend
himself, the jed's great, long lance loomed into his field of
vision like a battering ram.
He heard his beloved princess scream. Then the world
exploded in searing white flame. There followed an awareness
of falling through bottomless space, and as he fell, the
flame and din of pain and battle faded away into infinity.
He plummeted into cold oblivion, and with him went all
his phantoms—bowmen and banths alike...
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