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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