M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War #6

(August 1968)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Operation Snake-In-The-Brass [Part I] (Table of Contents: 2)

M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman

Pencils

Mike Roy

Inks

Mike Peppe

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

6-685

Genre

science fiction; war

Characters

M.A.R.S. Patrol [Joe Striker; Ken Hiro; Russ Stacey; Lt. Cy Adams]; General Kripps; aliens; Dianne Noralle (alien); General Jansen; Marshal Alibad; General Sorumi; U.S. Armed forces

Synopsis

The aliens attack Washington D.C., infiltrate the Pentagon with an agent, and kidnap foreign generals, but the M.A.R.S. team fights back.

Reprints

• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (BSV - Williams, 1968 series) #3
which is reprinted
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Breling Verlag, 1998 series) #3
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Bernt, 1995 series) ([April] 1995)
• in Avontuur Classics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #18124 (1969)
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Bernt, 1995 series) ([April] 1995)

Keywords

Alien; helicopter; Pentagon; Washington D.C.

Indexer Notes

Credits this issue from Martin O'Hearn.

News (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Reader's Page Animals (Table of Contents: 4)

Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Keywords

fan art

Indexer Notes

Reader art from Susan Magee, Bev Bandy, Bart Poste, John Price, and Gerald Owlsey.

Reader's Page Inventions (Table of Contents: 5)

Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Keywords

fan art

Indexer Notes

Reader art from Joedy Moots, Chris Velaquez, and Mark Ensor.

Jokes On You (Table of Contents: 6)

Gold Key Comics Club / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Gold Key Kid (advertising character, promotional character)

Indexer Notes

Jokes sent in by readers, plus one illustrated joke in comic-story form. Jokes and riddles submitted by fans Lisa Brown, Lynn Morgan, Allan Rollins, Tony Cassady, Judy Comeau, Carmen Hidlago, John Grimes, Karen Pachuta, Natalie Adele Heller, Lisa Kennedy, Tracey Riggs, S. Edward Miller, Joel Tremblay, John K. Pase, Jeff Green, Lisa Van Atta, Wendy Cuellar, Patti Miller, Bruce N. Osborne, and Debbie Ann Davis.

Battleground Capitol Hill [Operation Snake-In-The-Brass Part II] (Table of Contents: 7)

M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman

Pencils

Mike Roy

Inks

Mike Peppe

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction; war

Characters

M.A.R.S. Patrol [Joe Striker; Ken Hiro; Russ Stacey; Lt. Cy Adams] General Kripps; aliens; Dianne Noralle (alien); General Jansen; Marshal Alibad; General Sorumi; U.S. Armed forces; President of The United States

Synopsis

The M.A.R.S. Patrol wraps up fighting by destroying a secret alien base under Washington and discovering the alien agent.

Reprints

• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (BSV - Williams, 1968 series) #3
which is reprinted
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Breling Verlag, 1998 series) #3
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Bernt, 1995 series) ([April] 1995)
• in Avontuur Classics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #18124 (1969)
• in M.A.R.S. Patrouille (Bernt, 1995 series) ([April] 1995)

Keywords

Alien; Washington D.C.; Washington Monument

Indexer Notes

The unnamed president (seen only from behind, in the last panel) is clearly modeled after then-President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mini-Comics (Table of Contents: 8)

Gold Key Comics Club / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Genre

humor

Characters

Hunter; karate practitioners

Synopsis

[1] Hunter chasing a bear around a hill and being chased in turn. [2] Karate practitioner cannot break wood block without breaking his hand, so uses the cast to break the wood.

Keywords

Hunting; karate; pantomime; wordless

Indexer Notes

Two wordless half-page comic-story gags.

Dinosauria Pterodactyl (Table of Contents: 9)

Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

Information on Pterodactyls.

Keywords

Dinosaur; pterodactyl

Indexer Notes

Includes illustrations.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Niresk Fishing Outfits / advertisement / 1 page (report information)