“Amazing Stories,” April-May, 1953. Cover art by Barye Phillips, featuring “Mars Confidential!” by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
“Here is history’s biggest news scoop! Those intrepid reporters Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, whose bestselling exposes of life’s seamy side from New York to Medicine Hat have made them famous, here strip away the veil of millions of miles to bring you the lowdown on our sister planet. It is an amazing account of vice and violence, of virtues and victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style.
“Here you’ll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine that has made this heavenly body the cesspool of the Universe. In other words, this is Mars – Confidential!” [Prologue]
“Amazing Stories,” April-May, 1953. Cover art by Barye Phillips, featuring “Mars Confidential!” by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
“Here is history’s biggest news scoop! Those intrepid reporters Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, whose bestselling exposes of life’s seamy side from New York to Medicine Hat have made them famous, here strip away the veil of millions of miles to bring you the lowdown on our sister planet. It is an amazing account of vice and violence, of virtues and victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style.
“Here you’ll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine that has made this heavenly body the cesspool of the Universe. In other words, this is Mars – Confidential!” [Prologue]