Category: Marine Craft

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The Duplication Machine (continued . . .)

















	
















	
	Some time later, Janno
	recovered consciousness
	and raised his aching head.

	
	Janno handed the young scientist the note that
	had been delivered to the air fleet base.













	
	There, bound
	and gagged, sat
	Janno's exact
	duplicate !













	
	That night, Robi put out
	to sea in a small boat.


























	

















	












































    
      
      
    
















	

















	
	
	
	
	Caton undersea warships are
	patrolling every part of our
	coastline. If I fail to meet
	one tonight, I will try again
	tomorrow, and the next night . . .

	
	Suddenly ! . . .

	
	It is a Trigan !—
	Bring him aboard
	for questioning !

	
	What are you—a
	civilian—doing at
	sea in a war zone ?

	
	
	
	
	I came to make contact
	with a Caton warship !
	—I have a proposition
	to put to your rulers !

	
	It was at dawn the following day that a Caton bombing force
	was chased off, with heavy losses, by Trigan fighter craft.

	
	An early casualty in the
	running battle was—Janno !

	
	
	
	
	I'm done
	for !

This installment was originally published in Look and Learn issue no. 502 on 28 August 1971.

 
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Voyage to the Moon Bolus (continued . . .)

















	





























	

















	

















	
















	
	Janno and his comrades
	felt the death blow of the
	countless red hot particles,
	and were hurled headlong !

	
	
	
	
	Aaaaaaaagh !

	
	Out of control, the doomed
	craft toppled over and over
	. . . falling . . . falling . . . in
	the grip of Bolus's gravity ! 

	
	In the turmoil of the control compartment,
	Thulla's voice was raised in a frenzied scream !

	
	Thulla's order was obeyed
	. . . moments later, the
	craft's headlong fall was
	checked . . . and it swayed
	slowly down towards the
	surface of the moon.

	
	It descended slowly . . .
	yet with enough force to
	smash itself to ruin against
	a towering cliff wall !

	
	Later . . . the survivors crawled out of
	the wreckage and looked about them
	in awe at the inhospitable landscape.

	
	
	
	
	We've done it ! . . . we've
	reached Bolus . . . and
	now we can never return !

	
	The old scientist pointed
	. . . to their mother planet.

This installment was originally published in Look and Learn issue no. 321 on 9 March 1968.