Mars, God of War

Few characters carry a name as mythically loaded as Mars, God of War, and this Fiction House creation made his comics debut in the pages of Planet Comics #16 back in 1942 — right in the thick of the Golden Age, when pulp imagination ran wild and the cosmos was fair game for any kind of adventure. Brought to life by Ross Gallun and Joe Doolin, he inhabits a universe shared with colorful company like Auro, Mysta of the Moon, and Hardwich across the vivid, rocket-fueled pages of Planet Comics and Thrilling Planet Tales. What's remarkable is that a character with only a handful of catalog appearances spans nearly five decades — a quiet testament to the lasting pull of Fiction House's gloriously strange sci-fi mythology. For Golden Age enthusiasts and Fiction House collectors alike, he's a genuinely rare find worth seeking out.