Man O'Mars & Woman Are Green
Fiction House was seriously kicking bottom with their Big 6 lineup of which Planet Comics handled most of their sci-fi material. One story that might have been intended for their space anthology was Man O'Mars drawn by Maurice Gutwirth of Timely and Quality Comics. This 10-page story was the only original in the one-shot comic of the same name as the rest was old Planet Comics filler. Possibly inspired by the works of Ray Bradbury, Man O'Mars starts in the far off future of 2036 where the merciless Martian commander Gurtil holds the entire city of New York for hostage, but not if the daring John Hunter has anything to say about it. The story then flashes back to fifteen years earlier where were informed by an old know-it-all from Mars named Khandor about how the Martian military tried to conquer Earth before, so he and his people of the Azurians rebelled against their oppressive armies, and trained a hundred male Earthlings to be a fighting force known as the Marsmen. Although ...