Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Exodus from Tarsus"

Rex and Cynde still haven't returned to Mars...

...and they're about to hit another detour...

This never-reprinted eight-page tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #13 (1940), is a classic example of "condensed" storytelling!
Things like the reveal of the fleet (not just a single vessel, but a fleet) of "mile-long spaceships" on page 2, or the destruction of planet Tarsus on page 5 takes less than half a page in each case!
In today's books they'd each be a double-page spread!
But in those days, it was "plot point covered, keep the story rolling"!
Wow!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Junk Room of Doom"

It's taking a helluva long time for Rex Dexter to reach the second-closest planet to Earth...

...and going through the Junk Room of Doom is not going to speed things up!

This tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #12 (1940), was reprinted in Fox's The Eagle #1 (1941), presumably because the strip was being moved over there to give the new title an already-established feature, but the editors changed their minds, and new features like Spider Queen and Joe Spook took over the back pages of The Eagle, instead!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Revolt of the Robot Slaves of the Secret Planet"

Either Rex Dexter is the worst navigator in the history of space flight...

...or somebody (like creator/writer/artist Dick Breifer) is conspiring to keep him from getting home!

Considering Mars is the second-closest planet to Earth (Venus is closer, but it's in the other direction), where the hell is this unnamed world, anyway?
And why hasn't anyone noticed other ships and crews disappearing in this region of space?
This never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #11 (1940), offers no answers...

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "vs the Flame-Men of Emalf"

Rex Dexter seems to be taking a roundabout way from Earth to Mars...

...and his knack for being at the right place at the right time is unmatched!

"I'll be seeing you next issue to take you to Mars---"

Didn't he say that last issue?

Will Rex ever return to Mars?

Or will he become a Flying Dutchman of space?

Judging from this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #10 (1940), it sure seems that way!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "on the Planet of Peace"

Rex Dexter makes the cover of Fox's Mystery Men Comics for the second (and last) time...

with this absolutely spectacular Lou Fine cover featuring aliens who never appear in the series!

BTW, if the first panel above looks familiar, it was used as clip art for the Rex text story as well as this ad!

Rex knows those people are doomed in this story from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #9 (1940), but thinking God might deliver a miracle assuages his conscience.

Dick Briefer's little morality play is pretty dead-on!

We are a savage species, and others would do well to avoid us.

In post-WWII science fiction, a number of tales involve more advanced civilizations wanting to quarantine/isolate us from the rest of the universe until we can prove peaceful intentions.

Not surprisingly, sometimes we fail...

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "The Day Rex Dexter Failed to Save the Earth!"

Looks like a typical day in the life of our favorite interplanetary adventurer...

...but that's certainly not the case this time!

Note: this tale was scanned from microfiche, so the quality is less than ideal, but it's all we have to work with!

Note: this tale was scanned from microfiche, so the image quality is less than ideal, but it's all we have to work with!

To be fair, Rex's ego isn't so fragile that he's ashamed that Cynde had to rescue him in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #8 (1940), making him one of the more enlghtened heroes of the Golden Age!

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