MARTIANS
MARTIANS
Classification: Humanoid
extraterrestrial race
Location/Base of Operations: Mars
Known Members: None identified (various movie-goers and the theater manager and other employees, plus a newsboy, were seen)
Affiliations: None known
Enemies: None known (although they were worried about Earthlings)
Significant Businesses: Mars Taxi Service, Mars Theatre
Significant Locations: Mars Towers, Planet Police Station
Significant Productions: "The Earthlings Attack"
First Appearance: Adventures into Weird Worlds#16 (March, 1953)
Powers/Abilities: The Martians were identical to humanity as far as could be seen in terms of form and appearance.
There technology may have been
more advanced than humanity circa 1953, judging by the appearance of
the ship streaking through the air (although humanity had had airplanes
at that time). The building were somewhat futuristic-looking, but they
may have just had a different design style. There's not clear evidence
that they had advanced technology.
They had movie theaters, such as Mars Theatre.
They had somewhat
futuristic-looking taxis, but they may have been conventional
combustion engine, wheel-axle vehicles, or they have have been some
sort of magnetic-levitation, anti-gravity, and/or other form of air
cars.
Traits: The Martians were very similar to
humanity in terms of interest and/or concerns in the possibility of
invaders from a nearby planet, at least.
Type: Bilaterally symmetric humanoid bipeds
Eyes: Two (on head; colors not clearly shown)
Fingers: Four (plus opposing thumb)
Toes: Unrevealed
Skin color: "Pink" (comparable to Caucasian humanity), at least
Average height: Approximately 5'10"?
History:
(Adventures
into Weird Worlds#16 (fb) - BTS) - A society remarkably similar to
humanity developed on Mars. Apparently by what would correspond to the
1950s on Earth, there were numerous sitings of unidentified flying
objects, which some Martians suspected could be ships from Earth or
other worlds.
Unidentified Martians made the movie "The Earthlings Attack" to capitalize on this fear.
(Adventures into Weird Worlds#16 (fb) - BTS) - On a hunting trip a week before the main story, a man apparently saw what he believed to be a flying saucer.
(Adventures into Weird Worlds#16) - During a showing of "The Earthlings Attack" at Mars Theatre, the man who had apparently seen the flying saucer was overcome with fear, and he cried out, "No! No! Don't let them come!"
Somone behind him told him to take it easy, and he admitted that he had
gotten carried away, but then the guy next to him told him it was all
"a bunch of spaceship mullarkey" and that it "couldn't happen in a
million years."
As the two argued, those around them told them to
be quiet, and finally someone called the manager, who escorted the two
out and gave them a refund. The two men calmed down and shook hands;
the man who had initially cried out noted, "for all we know, these
saucers may even be worrying the people on Earth, too."
Meanwhile, a paperboy announced that the
newspaper he had contained an article about a pilot spotting a flying
saucer, which was believed to be from Earth.
Comments: Created by an uncredited writer, Ross Andru & Joe Orlando.
This three page story has an audience of
seemingly human people watching a movie about flying saucers, which we
might assume to be Martians. In the last panel, it is revealed that the
people watching the movie were on Mars and that they were worried about
flying saucers from Earth.
I feel like this is a plot seen a few times in other stories...
It was a litle on-the-nose with so many things named "Mars" this or that, but I guess they didn't want you to miss the dramatic reveal in the last panel.
Given the small section of society seen, it may
be that this city was contained within an atmospheric bubble and/or
that it regon of Mars that these Martians populated. Obviously,
Mars-616 did not have the atmosphere, climate, etc. to support human
life.
Regardless, it remains to be explained how so many different races/beings allegedly originated from Mars.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
These Martians should be distinguished from:
 They had somewhat futuristic-looking taxis, but they
may have been conventional combustion engine, wheel-axle vehicles, or
they have have been some sort of magnetic-levitation, anti-gravity,
and/or other form of air cars. --Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer" |
  The theater showed "The Earthlings Attack," and a manager had to escort out two men who argued about the existence or lack thereof of spaceships on their world.--Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer" |
 It was presumably an apartment complex, or perhaps it held a number of businesses or something.--Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer" |
 It seemed to be pretty small to cover the whole planet, but maybe "planet" was the name of township, etc --Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer" |
  .Capitalizing on the hype surrounding reported sitings of unidentified flying objects and/or flying saucers and the fear that they could be from Earth or another planet, "The Earthlings Attack" showed monstrous bipeds flying to planets and brandishing ray-guns of some sort. Viewing this movie at Mars Theatre unnerved a Martian who believed he had seen a flying saucer, leading to his arguing with another man about the existence of spaceships that resulted in both men being escorted out of the theater so they would stop disturbing the other patrons. | . |
| . --Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer"   Note: The Earthlings were also shown in the left-sided image in the Mars Theatre sub-profile.In an infinite Multiverse, every reality exists, and there is even a reality that mirrors the events of "The Earthings Attack" movie. It is unrevealed whether the movie's creator glimpsed such a reality somehow or if it is just coincidental. Earth-57316 Gray-skinned, pointy-eared,
bug-eyed Earthlings invaded other worlds via flying saucers. Mirrored story of “The
Earthlings Attack,” a movie made and watched by humanoid Martians. Adventure
into Weird Worlds #16 (1953) |
images: (without ads)
Adventures into Weird Worlds#16/4, panel 1-3 (movie spaceship approaching planet, landing on planet, and spaceship top);
pg. 2, panel 1-2 (spaceship opening, Earthlings)
Appearances:
Adventures
into Weird Worlds#16/4 "Flying Saucer" (March, 1953) - uncredited
writer, Ross Andru & Joe Orlando (pencilers), Jack Abel (inker),
Stan Lee (editor)
First posted: 08/22/2025
Last updated: 08/22/2025
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