Creepy 1970s poetic comic: “A Martian Saga”

The comics blog Diversions of the Groovy Kind has beautiful, readable jpegs of a creepy 1970s black-and-white poetic comic titled “A Martian Saga.” Written by Nick Cuti and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, this six-page comic about an astronaut marooned on Mars was published in the March 1977 issue of Creepy. Here are the opening lines of “A Martian Saga”:

I had come to the land
of the pale ochre sand,
Where God Shines His eye,
Dim and cold …

[via Dave Tackett of QuasarDragon and John DeNardo of SF Signal]