Commies from Mars #1 - First Appearance of Barefootz, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Commies from Mars (Kitchen Sink Press, 1973 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: March 1973
Key date: March 1973
Indicia publisher: Kitchen Sink Enterprises
Price: $0.50
Pages: 36
Rating: Adults Only

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Barefootz - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rufus the Radical Reptile - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Red Planet	cover	1	script: Tim Boxell; pencils: Tim Boxell; inks: Tim Boxell
1	Will Famine and the Fiends Eat the Earth?	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: Peter Poplaski; inks: Peter Poplaski
2	Adolf Hitler Funnies	comic story	3	script: Steve Stiles; pencils: Steve Stiles; inks: Steve Stiles	Adolf Hitler; Krebs; Captain Yank; The Scarlet Swastika; Escaped Human Lunatic; Richard Nixon (unnamed cameo)
3	Busy Signal	comic story	7	script: Tim Boxell; pencils: Tim Boxell; inks: Tim Boxell; letters: Tim Boxell	Evelyn; Pete; George
4	Law 'n' Ordure	comic story	5	script: Bill Crawford; pencils: Bill Crawford; inks: Bill Crawford; letters: Bill Crawford	Rufus the Radical Reptile First
5	-	comic story	1	script: Howard Cruse; pencils: Howard Cruse; inks: Howard Cruse; letters: Howard Cruse	Barefootz First
6	Rev. Jerimiah Moses	comic story	1	script: Grass Green; pencils: Grass Green; inks: Grass Green; letters: Grass Green	Rev. Jerimiah Moses
7	Tussy Comes Back	comic story	9	script: Howard Cruse; pencils: Howard Cruse; inks: Howard Cruse; letters: Howard Cruse	Barefootz First
8	A Piece on the Beach	comic story	4	script: Tim Boxell; pencils: Tim Boxell; inks: Tim Boxell; letters: Tim Boxell	Tommy; Sally
9	Where it Hurts	comic story	1	script: Steve Griffin; pencils: Steve Griffin; inks: Steve Griffin; letters: Steve Griffin
12	-	illustration	1	pencils: Peter Manesis; inks: Peter Manesis; colors: Peter Manesis

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Commies from Mars: The Red Planet: The Collected Works #[nn] ISBN 9780867193435	1986	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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