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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published April-May 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jerry Siegel?
Notes Indicia states "published bi-monthly by Approved Comics, Inc.".

Cover Details - "Terror from the Sky!"

Characters Lars of Mars
Genre science fiction; super-hero
Pencils Allen Anderson (painting)
Inks Allen Anderson (painting)
Colors Allen Anderson (painting)
Notes Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007.
Reprinted in Lars of Mars 3-D (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1

1 page filler "Do People Live on Mars?"

Characters Orson Welles
Synopsis Facts about Mars and our history of thinking people live there.
Genre Fact
Notes On inside front cover.

6 page Lars of Mars story "Lars of Mars"

Characters Lars of Mars (introduction)
Synopsis Lars comes to Earth to investigate an H-bomb detonation, but ends up starring in his own TV show as a cover.
Genre science fiction; Super-hero
Script Jerry Siegel?
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

7 page Lars of Mars story "Villain or Hero?"

Characters Lars of Mars; Schemer Bixby
Synopsis Schemer Bixby, a crime boss, kidnaps Lars and forces him to help in a bank robbery.
Genre science fiction; Super-hero
Script Jerry Siegel?
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

2 page text story "The Boomerang"

Genre science fiction
Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Amazing Adventures No. 3"

Synopsis Ad for Amazing Adventures #3, with an onsale date of April 6th. Includes 3 pictures which are likely reprints of panels in that book.

6 page Captain Ken Brady, Rocket Pilot story "Pirates of the Airways!"

Characters Ken Brady
Genre science fiction
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

1 page filler "Modern Miracles"

Synopsis Strange but true facts, including a man whose coffin got washed out to sea and ended up back where he was born, 2000 miles away!
Genre Fact

7 page Lars of Mars story "The Terror from the Sky"

Characters Lars of Mars
Genre science fiction; super-hero
Script Jerry Siegel?
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

1 page filler "Solar Facts"

Synopsis Facts about the solar system.
Genre Fact