Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Puppet of the Ugly Queen"

Rex's "politically-incorrect" foe returns...

...with a scheme involving one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi!

"As she dies, the spell is broken.."

But, the Ugly Queen's body is still alive as the souls/intellects switch bodies!
So, Cynde doesn't go through the trauma of experiencing death!
But, we lose the closest Rex will ever come to an ongoing arch-enemy...
Body-switching in fiction has gone on as long as fiction itself has existed!
Whether it's via magic, technology, or super-human psychic powers, 
Both Edgar Rice Burroughs and HP Lovecraft used it in novels.
TV series like Star Trek, The Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel, not Marvel characters), X-Files, and many others have featured their primary cast members' bodies switched with antagonists!
Movies including All of Me, Freaky Friday (all of them) and the highly-underrated I Married a Monster from Outer Space based their premises on the concept.
In comics, this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #23 (1941) is one of the first (if not the first) takes on the subject!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Attack of the Ugly Queen"

Yes, it'a a very politically-incorrect title for this story...

...but it is what the antagonist of this tale calls herself, so...

Flash Gordon gets Ming the Merciless' beautiful daughter Princess Aura lusting after him!
Buck Rogers has the lovely Draconian Princess Ardala chasing him all over the galaxy!
Rex Dexter has...the Ugly Queen!

There ain't no justice, I tell ya!
And, worse, she's coming back...

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Sonic Slayers from Saturn"

I wonder if Gene Roddenberry got the idea for the Ferengi from this tale?

(He would've been in his early 20s, and in the Army Air Corps at this point.
Our military men were among comics' biggest fans.
The four-color mags were cheap, quick reads, portable, and expendible.)

Emmos has huge ears compressed under that turban?
Wow!

Give writer/artist Dick Briefer credit for coming up with consistently-weird menaces for Rex and Cynde to battle!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Slave Masters of Mercury"

Aliens should really learn Rule #1 when dealing with humans...

..."don't screw with Rex Dexter or his friends/lovers!"

Is there anything Rex Dexter can't do?

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Nemesis of the Neekians"

Just another day in the cosmos for our hero...

...ok, maybe not a typical day...

"Will we ever reach Mars, Rex?"

After a year of constant re-routing and diversions, what do you think dear reader?

As a bonus, Briefer included another of those kool "make your own spaceship" schematics!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Cranian Conquest of Earth"

Another Friday, another chapter about Rex Dexter almost reaching Mars...

...another chapter of Rex Dexter saving Earth again!

What is it with this guy?

For God's sake, go home to Mars already!

Let Earth fend for itself for once!

Well, you have to give Dick Briefer creadit for being able to do variations on a theme in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #17 (1940)!

The Cranians are the weirdest humanoid-type aliens I've seen in awhile, even if their design isn't very practical!

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