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This drawing depicts a human relaxing in a chair and eating a sandwich while a Martian shoots his ray gun at a Western gunslinger appearing on a television set; it accompanies a column by TV-Radio editor Allen Rich dated February 14, 1963. Rich humorously describes how a Martian would negatively respond to Earth's television shows.
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