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Saturday, October 6, 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Among the Stars!"
This is a fitting episode in several ways...
...as Rex Dexter of Mars becomes immortal (metaphorically-speaking)!
Rex Dexter didn't return!
This tale in Fox's Mystery Men Comics #24 (1941) was his last Golden Age appearance, and makes a very appropriate (though unintentional) finale to the series!
Rex would return in Image's Savage Dragon as a supporting character in the early 2000s and still appears from time to time.
Note: for all those who think the Clash of the Titans movies are an accurate version of ancient Greek myths, Rex Dexter gets it right!
Perseus fought Cetus, not the Kraken to save Andromeda!
However, original CotT screenwriter Beverly Cross decided to go with the more dramatic "Kraken"!
And, let's face it, don't the two Zeus (Zeuses?), Laurence Olivier and Liam Neeson, sound kool rumbling "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!" instead of "RELEASE CETUS!"?
Though this was the final Rex Dexter story published in Mystery Men Comics, it's not the end of Rex at Friday Fun!
Next week, we begin a two-part presentation of Rex's revised origin (it ain't a modern phenomenon, guys), told as the opening tale of Fox's Rex Dexter one-shot in 1940!
Then, the Friday before Halloween, we present a Rex Dexter story we "skipped" so it could be run around All Hallow's Eve since it involves space zombies!
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Puppet of the Ugly Queen"
...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, September 21, 2018
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...
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...
And, worse, she's coming back...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
The MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN Blogathon is coming to HORROR COMICS OF THE 1950s!
Our Newest RetroBlog, Horror Comics of the 1950s starts off with a SHRIEK...
...as we re-present the complete run of Dick Briefer's third (and scariest) version of The Monster of Frankenstein to celebrate both Halloween and the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel!
The terror begins October 1st!
Don't Miss It!
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(which reprints in b/w the complete series we're presenting in COLOR!)
Friday, September 14, 2018
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.)
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!
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, September 7, 2018
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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