STARK – Man Without a Tribe by Leigh BrackettEric John Stark was born on Mercury to miners who died in a cave-in. He was brought up by Mercurian aborigines and given the name N'Chaka, meaning "the man without a tribe". Stark grew up to become a wanderer, a warrior, a rebel, and ultimately a legend.Queen of the Martian Catacombs (1949) – Gaunt giant and passionate beauty, they dragged their thirst-crazed way across the endless crimson sands in a terrible test of endurance. For one of them knew where cool life-giving water lapped old stones smooth--a place of secret horror that it was death to reveal!Enchantress Of Venus (1949) – Laughing, she cast him down into the hideous depths, beneath the seas of flaming gas, to where dead blossoms swayed, whispering, over strangely jumbled rains . . . But there he found the secret of her power, and came surging back--up from the depths, up from the seas, the tortured swamps to storm her forbidding shrine and seek her within, death like a gift in his hands . . .Black Amazon of Mars (1951) – Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city--with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel--ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures--at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!