Wait... what? Where's the colour? What's... ooOOOooh.
Rex BAXTER by Dexter, not Rex Dexter. Well - this is from a Canadian comic book. No wonder it's not All In Color For A Dime.
But - WTF? Hitler's escaping to Atlantis in a V-4 rocket? Let's just see what is going on here...
Yeah. I guess we're going to have to keep reading now...
In case it was unclear, the next chapter opens with the words "Hitler is dead. Rex Baxter had seen to that."
We might have expected a big special FX panel of the bad guy disintegrating in our comics from south of the border, especially with Hitler, but he dies off-panel here. It could be due to the brevity of the chapters, or it might have been due to cultural pressure. The anti-comics crusaders pushing for censorship hit Canada first before later joining up with Wertham and taking their delusions to the US Congressional hearings.
Rex Baxter himself was an ongoing hero strip with a solid run. Clayton Dexter drew only one more episode beyond the three seen here. Just enough to trigger this odd Rex Dexter/Baxter intersection.
Now - let's see if i can find my way back to where i left the other Rex...
page art by Clayton Dexter for Dime Comics #s 25-27 (1946)
