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Raymond Marais
Area(s)	Writer
Pseudonym(s)	Rayarama Das Brahmachary Elliot Marais

Raymond Marais was a writer for the comic book industry in the 1960s and early 1970s. He wrote stories for King Comics, Warren Publications, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. Marais is most notable for his nonfiction one-page stories on historical battles, which he published with King Comics and DC. He also wrote a number of stories dealing with mythology. His first published credits were in 1967 and his last credits were in 1973.

On July 13, 1966, Marais was one of a group of people who helped form the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Marais took the name "Rayarama Das Brahmachary" and edited a number of publications for the new society, including Back to Godhead magazine and the organization's first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita. He left the society shortly thereafter, circa 1968.

Marais began in the comics industry with Tower Comics, writing various features throughout the latter half of the 1960s. (His Who's Who entry indicates he worked for Tower from 1960-1969, but Tower wasn't formed until 1965.) In 1967, Marais wrote a number of one-page nonfiction backup stories on great battles of history for a number of King Comics titles, including The Phantom, Flash Gordon, and Mandrake the Magician. King Comics closed in late 1967, and Marais went on-staff at Marvel Comics, writing a couple of Sub-Mariner stories for Tales to Astonish and Doctor Strange stories for Strange Tales. While at Marvel, he and artist Dan Adkins co-created the extra-dimensional being Nebulos and his Planets Perilous dimension. He also wrote one story for Two-Gun Kid before he abruptly left Marvel around January 1968.

After writing a couple of stories for Warren Publications, Marais became a freelancer for DC Comics, and over the next half-decade wrote a selection of stories for DC's lines of horror, war, and romance titles.

Bibliography

King Comics

• The Phantom #24 (August 1967):
  • "By Force of Arms: The Fall of the Axemen" — illustrated by Tim Battersby-Brent
  • "Stronghold: Krak des Chevaliers" — illustrated by Tim Battersby-Brent
  • "By Order of Arms: The Byzantine Cavalry"
  • "Stronghold: Metz — The Bastion of the East"
• "Battlefield: The Civil War: Fort Sumter — Where Burst the Flames of War!!", The Phantom #25 (September 1967)
• "Great Battle of History: Pharsalus — The Triumph of Caesar," Mandrake the Magician #8 (September 1967)
• "Freedom Fighters: Washington Attacks Trenton! George Washington," Flash Gordon #10 (November 1967)
• Flash Gordon #11 (December 1967):
  • "Stronghold: Macchu Picchu"
  • "Stronghold: The Great Wall of China"
  • "Stronghold: Alamut — The Eagle's Nest"
  • "By Force of Arms: The Weapons of the Aztecs"
• The Phantom #28 (December 1967):
  • "Freedom Fighters: The White Knight's Last Battle"
  • "By Force of Arms: The Corvus and The Rise of Rome"
• "Great Battles of History: Shiraz!" Flash Gordon #18 (Charlton, Jan. 1970)

Marvel Comics

• "If This Planet You Would Save!" (Doctor Strange), Strange Tales #160 (September 1967) — co-plotted and illustrated by Marie Severin
• "The Power of the Plunderer!" (Sub-Mariner) Tales to Astonish #95 (September 1967) — co-scripted with Roy Thomas
• "And a Scourge Shall Come Upon You!" (Doctor Strange), Strange Tales #161 (October 1967) — co-plotted and illustrated by Dan Adkins
• "Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!" (Sub-Mariner), Tales to Astonish #96 (Oct. 1967)
• "On the Trail of... The Border Hawk!", Two-Gun Kid #91 (January 1968)

Warren Publications

• "The Rescue of the Morning Maid," Creepy #18 (Jan. 1968) — illustrated by Pat Boyette and Rocco Mastroserio
• "The Final Solution," Eerie #17 (Sept. 1968)

DC Comics

• "Last Stand On Thanagar," Hawkman #26 (June/July 1968) — illustrated by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera
• "When the Snow-Fiend Strikes!" Hawkman #27 (August-September 1968) — illustrated by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera
• "Warrior: Pontiac," Our Fighting Forces #122 (November-December 1969) — illustrated by Ken Barr
• "Warrior," Our Fighting Forces #123 (Jan.-Feb. 1970) — illustrated by Ken Barr
• "Warrior: Alexander," Our Fighting Forces #125 (May–June 1970) — illustrated by Ken Barr
• Our Fighting Forces #126 (July-August 1970):
  • "Great Battles of History: The Fall of Constantinople," Our Fighting Forces #126 (July-August 1970) — illustrated by Ric Estrada
  • "Warrior" — illustrated by Ken Barr
• "The Gemini Woman," Secret Hearts #145 (July 1970) — illustrated by John Celardo
• "The Coming of Ghaglan," House of Secrets #87 (Aug./Sept. 1970)
• "The Sagittarian Woman," Secret Hearts #149 (Jan. 1971) — text piece
• "Horoscope: If You're Capricorn," Young Romance #170 (February-March, 1971) — text piece
• "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," (Supergirl) Adventure Comics #420 (June 1972) — story by Marais, dialogue by Len Wein, illustrated by Tony De Zuniga and Bob Oksner
• "Hiding Place," House of Secrets #101 (October 1972) — illustrated by Ruben Yandoc
• "The Vengeance of Horus," Star Spangled War Stories #165 (October-November, 1972)
• "Rise of the Olympians," Our Fighting Forces #140 (Nov./Dec. 1972) — illustrated by Ric Estrada
• "Son of the Nibelungs," G.I. Combat #157 (Dec. 1972./Jan. 1973)
• "The Room That Remembered," Weird War Tales #10 (Jan. 1973)

External links

• Mikeross22/Sandbox/Raymond Marais at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)