Religious Fanatics Attack Freedom of Speech...Again!

The right to speak your mind freely received another blow...

...when the offices of the French political satire magazine Charlie Hebdo were attacked for the second time in four years by Muslim fanatics, this time with the loss of a dozen lives, including magazine staffers and policemen!

We Are Charlie!

Reading Room: LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Martian disguised as a Human Actor Playing a Martian on TV...

...he was heading for Manchuria to stop a mad Soviet scientist from unleashing a super-weapon that could freeze anything!

 Lars uses his ability to travel between dimensions, encountering creatures like the one on the cover above, then escaping to...

Written by Jerry Siegel, illustrated by Murphy Anderson, this was the cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second (and last issue) of the series!

BTW, the cover artist is Allen Anderson (no relation to Murphy)

And, Allen also did the cover to the second (and last) issue of Ziff-Davis' Space Busters...which was illustrated by Murphy!

Weird, huh? 

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Reading Room: LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Part 1

Old Commies Never Die...

...they just return in the next issue working for different Commies, as the guy who doesn't just play a Martian on TV, but is a Martian playing an actor playing a Martian on TV while fighting crime in real life (got that?) discovers...

As Lars escapes one threat, he's about to run headlong into another...
Will Lars Stop Raskov?

Will Raskov Stop and/or Kill Lars?

Be Here Next Monday for the Astounding Conclusion!

You'll note the Communist Chinese were illustrated in a non-cartoony manner, unlike the overly-caricatured Japanese in most World War II comics and animated cartoons!
(The unfortunate lemon-yellow skin-tone wasn't artist Murphy Anderson's choice, I'm sure.)
Written by Jerry Siegel, illustrated by Murphy Anderson, this was the cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second (and last issue) of the series!

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Reading Room TOMB OF THE GODS "Horus"

The 1970s was a time of experimentation in comics...

Art by Enrich

...and one of the more interesting strips appeared in the back of Warren's b/w magazine Vampirella, beginning with this cover-featured tale...which may be NSFW...

Written and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, the strip played with a number of mythological characters from various pantheons, offering twists on the long-established legends.

This premiere tale appeared in Warren's Vampirella #17 (1972) with other Tomb of the Gods entries appearing irregularly until #23.

Reading Room KEN BRADY: ROCKET PILOT "Pirates of the Airways"

Here's a never-reprinted tale of high adventure in the 21st Century...

...from the co-creator of Superman and the definitive artist of Dracula!

This tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #10* (1951) was written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Gene Colan.
Like the book he appeared in, Captain Ken Brady only made two appearances.
The "Police in Space" genre was incredibly-popular during the early 1950s with numerous tv shows and comic books dedicated to military and para-military organizations defending us from alien menaces!

*Though it's number "10", this was actually the first issue of Lars of Mars.

We're not sure which other Ziff-Davis title's numbering this run continues from.