Rex Dexter vol.1

The story started at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where a scientist, Montague Dexter, demonstrated his new Mars Rocket by taking off in it, accompanied by his unnamed wife, and never coming back. Instead, their son, Rex, piloted the ship back in the far-flung future year of 2000. In the meantime, Monty and the Mrs. had been living on Mars, where they'd crash-landed all those years ago, and given birth to Rex apparently at least 30 Earth years after arriving. It had taken that long to repair the ship, and they'd become too old to make the trip back. Rex became a widely-acclaimed hero, and made a romantic attachment with an Earth chick named Cynde. But soon after, Rex brought home a monster from an expedition, and it escaped and wrought havoc. Rex defeated it, of course, but the fickle crowd decided he was more trouble than he was worth, and banished him. Cynde accompanied him into exile. This volume contains the stories published in Mystery Men Comics in 1939 and 1940.

Richard "Dick" Briefer (1915–1980) was an American comic-book artist best known for his various adaptations, including humorous ones, of the Frankenstein monster. Under the pseudonym Dick Hamilton, he also created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press.