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| Nice Cover. And if you look closely. Lars seems to have solved the "scorched bottom" problem inherent in many comic book jet packs : ). |
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| A curvy pneumatic redhead in a skin-tight two-tone gold rubber costume being kidnapped by a steampunk psycho robot – yep, this is my comic of the day! Thanks to baldy51 for pointing it out.
Some very dodgy science in Do People Live on Mars? (green vegetation?) but these were early days in astronomy (Prediction – there is life of a sort on Mars – trapped in the warm waters beneath the ice-caps – watch this space (also, on Europa and Eurydice, I reckon) – we’ll see)
There isn’t a man, woman or child on Earth who doesn’t thrill to the exploits of that incredible crusader from another world, Jerry Siegel(?)’s Lars of Mars. How true that is – I’ve yet to meet anyone who has said, “I’m not thrilled by that guy, Lars of Mars – how about you?” In his origin story, we begin to understand the importance of crackety-wackety cereal to maintaining interplanetary order.
Great pencils from Murphy Anderson on all the stories! In Villain or Hero, the postmodern mayhem of pretending to be a man from Mars for a TV show begins to prey on our hero when he’s set up by some villains. Luckily, he’s been to super-hero training school and always keeps a mask handy.
Gene Colan’s Captain Brady and his sidekick, Buzzy, provide some airborne action as they battle a sky pirate over a new widget of a metal
But then it’s back to Lars who’s now ready to battle the Terror from the Skies! Laughable now to look back on these bizarre ‘red scare’ stories from the fifties with the Americans fearing any nation which has a free healthcare system, student grants, a national investment policy and subsidised housing – so glad we’ve all moved on from that…. |
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| Publication | April-May 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007. |
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| Cover | Terror from the Sky! |
| Featuring | Lars of Mars |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Anderson (painting) | Inks: Allen Anderson (painting) | Colors: Allen Anderson (painting) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Lars of Mars |
| Notes | Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007. |
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| Comic Story | Do People Live on Mars? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about Mars and our history of thinking people live there. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science | Characters: Orson Welles |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Lars of Mars (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lars comes to Earth to investigate an H-bomb detonation, but ends up starring in his own TV show as a cover. |
| Featuring | Lars of Mars |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel? | Pencils: Murphy Anderson | Inks: Murphy Anderson |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Lars of Mars (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Villain or Hero? (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Schemer Bixby, a crime boss, kidnaps Lars and forces him to help in a bank robbery. |
| Featuring | Lars of Mars |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel? | Pencils: Murphy Anderson | Inks: Murphy Anderson |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Lars of Mars; Schemer Bixby |
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| Text Story | The Boomerang (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Publisher advertisement | Amazing Adventures No. 3 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for Amazing Adventures #3, with an onsale date of April 6th. Includes 3 pictures which are likely reprints of panels in that book. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Pirates of the Airways! (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Ken Brady, Rocket Pilot |
| Credits | Pencils: Gene Colan | Inks: Gene Colan |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Ken Brady |
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| Comic Story | Modern Miracles (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Strange but true facts, including a man whose coffin got washed out to sea and ended up back where he was born, 2000 miles away! |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Terror from the Sky (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Lars of Mars |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel? | Pencils: Murphy Anderson | Inks: Murphy Anderson |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Lars of Mars |
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| Comic Story | Solar Facts (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the solar system. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
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