Cosmo the Merry Martian
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Cosmo the Merry Martian was a very obscure comic book published by Archie Comics in the late 1950s. The comic was created by Bob White as a way to provide a family appropriate comic for children with an interest in the then current space race. The title character was the first Martian to visit the earth. The title only lasted for six issues. Every issue, including the last one, had a cliffhanger ending. [1]
Besides the title character, other characters are Orbi (Cosmo's astronaut companion), Professor Thimk (the scientist who invented the Martian spaceship, but who was not on the spaceship when it took off from Mars), and Astra (Cosmo's girlfriend). In the first issue, while they are travellng toward their intended destination of Earth, a meteor damages their spaceship, and they crash land on Earth's moon. The moon turns out to be inhabited by beings named Oog who live underground. [2]
