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Mars Comics #1
Mars Comics #1 (1951) The issue contains multiple science fiction adventure stories set on Mars. One story follows a man rescued from Mars slavery by a spacecraft, who encounters winged creatures and returns to save others; another involves the spaceship Vengeance confronting a pirate's forces guarding a hidden gemdt mine, with yellow gas used to incapacitate enemies and a quest to locate the pirate's son; a third narrative features conflict between Martian rulers over a captured Earth woman, with one ruler calling upon Red Comet forces from Earth's capitol to intervene in the dispute.