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X-Men 10: Introducing Ka-Zar!

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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Jack Kirby, Ka-zar, Savage Land, Stan Lee, Uncanny X-Men, X-men, Zabu

The Coming of Ka-Zar! Here it is: the first silver age appearance of Ka-zar, lord of the savage land! And don’t forget Zabu!

Even though Ka-zar is not a mutant, Xavier allows the X-Men to travel to Antarctica and enter the Savage Land to investigate this noble savage. They end up having to save Jean and Warren from being sacrificed by the Swamp Men.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Uncanny X-Men #10; Marvel, 1964.
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks X-Men HC #1.
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks New Edition X-Men HC #1.
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks X-Men TPB #1.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone.








Spider-man and Ka-zar Team Up Against Dinosaurs!

20 Friday Jan 2012

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dinosaur, Gil Kane, Ka-zar, Len Wein, lizard, Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Treasury, marvel treasury edition, Savage Land, Spider-man, Stegron, Zabu

Spider-man jumps without a parachute into the Savage Land, where he and Ka-zar take on the evil Stegron and a herd of stampeding dinos! Later, the dinosaurs fly to New York to bring chaos to the streets. And who should drop in but the Black Panther?! With art by Gil Kane and a guest appearance by Dr. Curtis “The Lizard” Connors, this two-part dino extrvaganza has been one of our very favorites for as long as we can remember! Do you want Part Two of the story?

Collector’s Guide:
– From Marvel Treasury #22
– Reprints Marvel Team-Up #19
– Reprinted in Essential Marvel Team-Up #1








He Stands Triumphant in the Very Center of Pangea!

03 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Avengers, Holocaust in a Hidden land, John Buscema, Ka-zar, Roger Stern, Savage Land, Terminus, Tom Palmer, Zabu

Remember when the Savage Land was totally destroyed by a giant alien in space armor? Dinosaurs on the run, Terminus looking mighty creepy, and the Avengers flexing in the jungle. Not to mention Hercules making friends with a sabretooth tiger, a little Kirby Krackle, and Shanna trying on her new leopard bikini. It’s all part of one of our favorite runs on the Avengers. We posted two excerpts: Part One.

Collector’s Guide: From Avengers #256-257: “Holocaust in a Hidden Land.”

Roger Stern plotting and scripting, John Buscema handling layouts and breakdowns, and Tom Palmer’s finishes bringing it all together! This team rocked the Avengers for thirty issues in #255-285, from 1985-1987.




You are Mine to Do with as I Choose!

03 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Avengers, Holocaust in a Hidden land, John Buscema, Ka-zar, Roger Stern, Savage Land, Terminus, Tom Palmer, Zabu

Remember when the Savage Land was totally destroyed by a giant alien in space armor? Dinosaurs on the run, Terminus looking mighty creepy, and the Avengers flexing in the jungle. Not to mention Hercules making friends with a sabretooth tiger, a little Kirby Krackle, and Shanna trying on her new leopard bikini. It’s all part of one of our favorite runs on the Avengers. We posted two excerpts: Part Two.

Collector’s Guide: From Avengers #256-257: “Holocaust in a Hidden Land”

Roger Stern plotting and scripting, John Buscema handling layouts and breakdowns, and Tom Palmer’s finishes bringing it all together! This team rocked the Avengers for 30 issues #255-285, from 1985-1987.




ARRROUGGH! ARRROOURRGH!!!

22 Thursday Sep 2011

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Welcome to the Wolverine Gallery! It’s an ongoing project, so just click Wolverine Gallery to see everything in this virtual exhibition. Continuing our glorious mission to document every single fight Wolverine has ever had with a dinosaur, Mars Will Send No More presents this goodie from artist Mike Mignola.

In Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure, Mignola and author Walter Simonson take our favorite reptile-ripping mutant to the Savage Land! Wolverine joins a primitive tribe and totally scores with a curvaceous jungle babe who doesn’t mind posing in her underwear when T. Rex comes to call.

We’re not really sure why Wolverine ever came back from there?!

Collector’s Guide: From Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure TPB.



Make Your Own Sabretooth Tiger!

30 Saturday Jul 2011

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dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Ka-zar, prehistoric mammals, Savage Land, Smilodon, Zabu

The 1980s were not kind to our dinosaur-riding, smilodon-loving jungle hero Ka-zar. But, we did get a few good stories about Zabu, who was always the one we liked more anyway. Artists like Gil Kane and Val Mayerik contributed to the back up stories “Tales of Zabu” that traced the tiger’s life from a cub to his first mate to his first encounters with the future lord of the Savage Land.

Plus, we got this totally awesome page you could cut out and fold to make your own Zabu! Print it out and send us a pic of your own sabretooth! (Yes, I did it.)

Collector’s Guide: From Ka-zar the Savage #14 and #18; Marvel Comics.



Merciful Mother, That Hurts!

20 Friday May 2011

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Chris Claremont, Classic X-men, John Bolton, jungle, Savage Land, Storm, X-men

Storm has a scantily-clad adventure fighting a giant alligator underwater in the prehistoric jungle of the Savage Land. You either think that sounds like an awesome plot or you’re at the wrong web site!

Collector’s Guide: From Classic X-Men #22

Fresh Kill for Dinner!

05 Thursday May 2011

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Wolverine in the Savage Land clawing the bejeezus out of dinosaurs — one of our favorite themes here on Mars! Feast your eyes on Alan Davis art of our favorite reptile-slashing mutant from Canada! Alan Davis also drew Sabretooth’s first appearance and the night Wolverine became god, among other fine stories.

Alan Davis and Chris Claremont produced about twenty issues of Uncanny X-men, between the Chuck Austen run and Ed Brubaker’s run. Long-time fans recall it was not their first run on Uncanny X-Men.

Collector’s Guide: From Uncanny X-Men #456.



I Ain’t No Dino Dinner!

22 Friday Apr 2011

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Chris Claremont, dinosaur, Jim Lee, Ka-zar, Savage Land, X-men, X-men covers, Zabu

uncanny x-men 275 jim lee 122

Uncanny X-Men #275 featured an awesome three-page fold-out wrap-around cover. Today’s post features that cover — and let me tell you, it wasn’t easy, what with my scanner only being big enough for one page at a time. So take advantage of my hard work, click on the image, blow it up to relish the detail, and set it as your desktop background.

Uncanny X-Men #275 sets the artistic high water mark for the team of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee. Very soon, their take on Marvel’s mutants would earn X-Men #1 the record of highest sales for any one comic book, ever. The records still stands.

Collector’s Guide: From Uncanny X-Men #275. Reprinted in X-Men Omnibus Chirs Claremont/Jim Lee/Marc Silvestri #2.

You might also enjoy flipping through the Wolverine Gallery.



You’re as Inconspicuous as a Mack Truck!

04 Monday Apr 2011

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Chris Claremont, dinosaur, John Byrne, Savage Land, Smilodon, Wolverine, X-men, Zabu

Rock the black & white artwork by John Byrne and Terry Austin in one of our favorite comic book scenes of all time: Wolverine having a chat with Zabu the sabretooth tiger, a constant companion of Ka-Zar.
Dig the full–color version with bonus material!

Collector’s Guide: From Essential X-Men TPB Vol. 1. Originally printed in Uncanny X-Men 116.



When He Strikes, There Is No Mercy in Him!

04 Monday Apr 2011

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Chris Claremont, dinosaur, John Byrne, Savage Land, Wolverine, X-men, Zabu

Wolverine having a chat with Zabu the sabretooth tiger, a constant companion of Ka-Zar. Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Note the “additional footage” inserted into John Byrne original artwork here. You can compare it to the unedited black and white version of the original story.

Collector’s Guide: From Classic X-Men 22. Originally printed in Uncanny X-Men 116.



RRAWRR!

04 Monday Apr 2011

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Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Ka-zar, Savage Land, Smilodon, Wolverine, X-men, Zabu

More black and white artwork from Essential X-Men. Witness John Byrne and Terry Austin’s original artwork from the first time Wolverine meets Ka-Zar, Lord of the Savage Land – and his awesome sabretooth tiger, Zabu!

Collector’s Guide: From Essential X-Men TPB Vol. 1. Originally printed in Uncanny X-Men #115; 1978, Marvel.

He Must Have Entered through the Endless Abyss!

25 Friday Mar 2011

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Amphibus, Ka-zar, Magneto, Neal Adams, Roy Thomas, Sauron, Savage Land, X-men, Zabu

Sauron has been bugging the X-Men for longer than some of us have been alive. Here are some scenes from when they first met, long ago, at the hands of creative team Roy Thomas and Neal Adams.

Also guest starring in this magnum opus, Magneto and his strange “little friend” Amphibus the frog freak! Whatever that guy’s power is, we don’t want to know!

Collector’s Guide: Originally Printed in Uncanny X-Men #57-63. Reprinted in X-Men Classics (1983) #1-3.



The Only Place You’re Gonna Rule… Is in Hades!

04 Friday Mar 2011

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Chris Claremont, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Ka-zar, pterosaur, Sauron, Savage Land, tyrannosaurus rex, Wolverine, X-men, X-men covers

Wolverine and Sauron. One nasty mammal and one hideously evil reptile. Something tells us they are never going to get along! Here’s a touching scene from their first meeting in Uncanny X-Men #115.

Collector’s Guide: From Classic X-Men 21. This reprint added gnarly dinosaur art to the interior and back covers, with a fun back up story: Colossus versus a Tyrannosaur!



Dear Lord Preserve Me, I’m Changing!

22 Tuesday Feb 2011

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Chris Claremont, Classic X-men, dinosaur, John Byrne, jungle, Sauron, Savage Land, Wolverine

Here are two sequences from Uncanny X-Men #114 (reprinted in Classic X-Men #20). You gotta love how John Byrne draws Wolverine taking out a giant flying dinosaur! That’s good comics! Storm plays a classic role as a bathing beauty menaced by a horrible evil.




Dinosaurs from the Past Could Roam the Earth Today!

16 Wednesday Feb 2011

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Avengers, dinosaur, jungle, Ka-zar, Savage Land, Wolverine, Zabu

More dinosaur action in the Savage Land — and the coolest Zabu (Ka-Zar’s sabretooth tiger) ever! Feast your eyes on Joe Madureira’s artwork. Through this entire series, he provides an overwhelming visual feast. Great fun!

Collector’s Guide: From Ultimates 3, Marvel Comics, 2007. Also in TPB and Hardcover!



Inert Matter Has No Power over One Such as This!

05 Saturday Feb 2011

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dinosaur, dinosaur comics, pteranodon, Sauron, Savage Land, Wolverine

Wolverine and the evil Pteranodon-headed Sauron just can’t seem to get along! Here, all hell breaks loose underground — and then the dinosaurs stampede! Artist Dwayne Turner really turns up the heat for this blow-out. WOW!

Collector’s Guide: From Wolverine #70, Marvel Comics 1992.

Lizard Men! We Are Lost!

07 Friday Jan 2011

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dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Doug Moench, jungle, Ka-zar, Lizard Men, Marvel Comics, marvel value stamps, mole man value stamp, Russ Heath, Savage Land, Smilodon, Triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, Wizard of Forgotten Flesh, Zabu

Ka-Zar: World’s Manliest Cat Lover.
From the Letters Page.

2022 Update: This was the first post here at Mars Will Send No More, way back in January 2011. Since then, the scans I painstakingly made for it somehow became FUBAR; so, eleven years later, I pilfered some pirate scans from the web to restore this post to its former glory. Along the way, I re-discovered that the letters page contains the Mole Man Value Stamp, which later became the avatar for our blogging buddy Paul at Longbox Graveyard — a truly historic comics coincidence!

Anyway, let’s rock this thing!

Doug Moench penned Wizard of Forgotten Flesh for the Ka-zar in 1974. Doug Moench did a huge amount of writing for Marvel in the 1970s: teaming up with Bill Sienkewicz for awesome Moon Knight stories, Gil Kane & George Perez on the Inhumans, Paul Gulacy on Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu, and — my personal favorites — the two Six From Sirius limited series.

That being said, Russ Heath‘s dinosaur artwork in Wizard of Forgotten Flesh speaks for itself. Dig his splash panel for page one.

Here is a the five-page sequence where Ka-zar and his buddies harness a Triceratops. They ride it into a river where they wage battle against the evil cult of serpent people.

Gotta admit: I love Zabu, the sabre-tooth tiger. One of my favorite scenes in any superhero book is Zabu and Wolverine having a conversation in animal language. That was Uncanny X-Men #116, when Chris Claremont and John Byrne took the X-men to Ka-zar’s home, the Savage Land.

Anyway, these serpent cultists are up to no good and using some ancient skull to give them power to enslave the tattooed guy’s people. The good guys free the prisoners, but the serpent priestess invokes skull power. With that power, she raises the dead to life to be her unholy soldiers.

This is a fun issue. It transplants some of the best 1970s Conan and Kull cliches and male-bonding adventures into a world of dinosaurs, and the artwork makes the script come to life. Unfortunately, it was only a fill-in from Russ Heath, and he would not again grace the pages of this series.

Collector’s Guide: From Ka-Zar #12, Marvel Comics, 1974.

If you liked that, dig the rest of our Gallery of Dinosaur Comics both old and new, or our guide to Steve Bissette’s Complete History of Dinosaur Comics.

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