Weird Wonder Tales #15
In "The Man Who Owned the World!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber team up with Jack Kirby for a wild 1976 sci-fi twist on interplanetary espionage, where a Jupiter spy and a Martian double agent play a deadly game of deception aboard Earth’s first rocket to Mars. With dynamic art by Kirby and inks by Dick Ayers, and a cover by Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia, this issue delivers high-stakes intrigue from the very first panel.
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A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight.
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