Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter of Mars was meant to be a multi-media star, with aspirations for film, radio, merchandise, and syndicated strips.
Whatever the inspiration, Briefer took it in some wild directions of his own, as he did with Frankenstein.
While this issue was part of the 1940 Fox wave of breaking out his anthology characters into their own titles, this one didn't last past one issue — and curiously, got much less internal house ad marketing support than the others. It's been an underappreciated part of Fox history ever since, there's a
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