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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Comics About Cartoonists

Stories About the World's Oddest Profession

The Mystery of the Missing X-Man!

What's the secret behind this 40-year old Dave Cockrum X-Men illustration...

...featuring both the original and 1975 revival teams, currently being used as a Variant Cover for the new Uncanny X-Men #1 (2018) from Marvel Comics?

Ask yourself this...who's missing from the art...and why?

Then click HERE to find out the answer!

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Uncanny Dave Cockrum

A Tribute

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BRAK THE BARBARIAN "Sword and the Road"

Who is Brak the Barbarian?

Though we presented his first comic appearance last week, most current comics fans are totally-unaware of him!

So let's clear up the matter...

After this never-reprinted text feature from Marvel's Savage Tales V1N6 (1974), there were two more Brak short-story collections; When the Idols Walked (1978) and Fortunes of Brak (1980).

All the books were re-edited into the collection shown below.

Next week: Part One of "The Unspeakable Shrine"!

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The (Complete) Adventures of Brak the Barbarian

Volume One & Volume Two

(includes a never-before-published conclusion to the series!)

Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Secret of Capt X"

Here's an "out of this world" tale...

...that, for the life of me, I still don't understand, even after re-reading it several times!

What the hell just happened?

This lovely Ditko-rendered story from Charlton's Out of This World #8 (1958) makes no sense!
Why couldn't the Korellans simply leave?
Why were they kidnapping and forcing others to adapt to their planet?
Since they can be moved to another planet with no ill effects, why remain on Korella?
Most experts blame Charlton mainstay Joe Gill for this silly story, but could someone else be responsible?
We'll never know...

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Creativity of Ditko

Monday Madness MAN FROM S.R.A.M. "vs the Devil-Man from S.U.N.E.V."

Last week we presented the Man from S.R.A.M. in his only published adventure!

...but there's one more tale to be told!

Written by Otto Binder (with re-write by Editor Joe Simon?) and illustrated by George Tuska, this story produced for Harvey's never-published Jigsaw #3 features a different Martian form for the protaganist, as well as a different vehicle from the previous chapter!
At the same time, Tuska also drew all three issues of Harvey's SpyMan, another cross-genre (super hero/spy/sci-fi) series just before moving on to a long run as Marvel's primary Silver Age Iron Man artist after Gene Colan!

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Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, and Culture of the Swinging Sixties