Man O' Mars
#1
(1953)
Fiction House,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1953-02-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Flying Stories, Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- J. F. Byrne
Issue Notes
On sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series. Volume 7, Part 2, No. 1. PERIODICALS. January-June 1953, p. 93.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in PS Artbooks Softee: Classic Science Fiction Comics (PS, 2020 series) #1 (December 2020)
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in 
in 
[no title indexed]
Man O' Mars / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- His name was John Hunter...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Hunter; Jerry (one of Hunter's crew); Renee (female consort of Hunter); Khandor (Historian of Mars); Tarkan; Gurtil (villain, Martian War Fleet Commander, death?); Ylla (villain, consort of Gurtil, death?)
- Synopsis
- John Hunter and his Marsmen attempt to thwart a second attempt of Gurtil to wage war on the Earth.
- Reprints
-
in Man O' Mars (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958) - in Strange Worlds (Malibu, 1990 series) #1 (November 1990)
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #83 ([October] 2010) [in black and white]
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Indexer Notes
Story includes a Martian woman named Ylla, whose name comes from the story "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury in THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.
No. 1: Uranus
Life On Other Worlds / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #50 (September 1947)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Gary Watson, April 2009.
No. 2: Saturn
Life on Other Worlds / comic story / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #49 (July 1947)
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[no title indexed]
Star Pirate / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When a space-rover named Star Pirate started this affair...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Star Pirate
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #35 (March 1945) [edited and shortened]
- in Man O' Mars (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Gary Watson, April 2009.
[no title indexed]
Space Rangers / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The problem was hide-and-seek...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Space Rangers
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #36 (May 1945) [modified]
- in Man O' Mars (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Gary Watson, April 2009.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Man O' Mars -
1.
["His name was John Hunter..."]
Man O' Mars -
2.
No. 1: Uranus
Life On Other Worlds -
3.
No. 2: Saturn
Life on Other Worlds -
4.
["When a space-rover named Star Pirate started this affair..."]
Star Pirate -
5.
["The problem was hide-and-seek..."]
Space Rangers
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