Fiction House's Planet Comics had various stories involving the planet Mars, but the actual Roman god of war that the planet was named after got his own recurring segment in the pages of this sci-fi anthology. Starting in Issue #15, the nasty deity went around possessing various people in a non-disclosed future in his spiritual form and caused them to do anything from telecar accidents to petty squabbles all in the effort to raise social discord and civil unrest. This nearly caused world wars if it weren't for the strength of certain mortals who could resist his powers of possession. In this new space age, the Solar System has been colonized by humans, so the god Mars had several planets to play around with as he strives to flame the fires of war which were the source of his power. He was constantly hopping from one world after the other like Jupiter and Saturn. This led to several noteworthy situations where an army of female soldiers take on a battalion of beast-men, gladiator fights with space dragons, pirate fish-men, giant 4-armed monkeys, space worthy galleons, a colossal robot tank trashing a city, a space prison riot, rampaging bird-men, stolen frog idols, and sexy space harems. Mars continued this for four whole years in his Planet Comics run, at least until Issue #35 when his segment ended up getting taken over by the space heroine Mysta Of The Moon whose run went on for even longer. The exchange of supervillain to superhero plot came down in Mars' last scheme where he succeeded in plunging Earth into such chaos by psychically rousing up crowds to burning down all the world's universities. Fortunately for Earth, the dedicated scientist Dr. Kort had bothered going to the moon and saving all humanity's knowledge on hypnodisc records that he downloaded into the minds of youngsters Mysta and Nors. Mars gets wind of this and tries to kill Kort by possessing a robot which is foiled by Mysta. The war god instead possesses Nors and terminates Dr. Kort. Mysta frees Nors by killing him which for some reason banishes Mars from the material plane for at least twenty years, the dumb part of which is that Mars instinctively knows that this is how long it will be until he can become corporeal again. Armed with the majority of Earth's knowledge, Mysta set off in the galaxy with her robot companion and use her wisdom to bring peace to what was left of mankind after Mars' constant meddling had caused such upheaval. Mysta's first adventure after defeating Mars was clashing swords with a different ancient evil...but that is another story.
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