Given enough time, I wonder if we'll get this whole series blogged.

Well, we've blogged like three out of 28 (and 3 annuals!) for Marvel's run, and I'm fairly sure they're out in the garage; so never say never. From 1978, John Carter, Warlord of Mars #12, "City of Skulls!" Written and edited by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Rudy Nebres.

Dejah Thoris and Tars Tarkas's daughter Sola are on their way home; but while Dejah makes it to Jangor, Sola doesn't make it to her dad: following music out into the desert, she is captured by skeletal hands reaching from beneath the sands. When Sola hadn't returned in a few days, Dejah asks John to go look for her. When Tars learns Sola was missing he was taken aback: the green Martians usually weren't that close to their kids, but he was. Searching in a flyer, John and Tars are taken down by a sandstorm, but find a massive, skull-shaped edifice in the desert.

Searching the structure, Tars is zapped from behind by a shaggy-looking thing, while John fights some skeletons. Grabbed by hands reaching from the walls, John turns to see Tars, obviously hypnotised, and intent on killing him...to be continued!