MIMMIANs
Classification: Alternate
reality (Reality-63895) extraterrestrial
semi-humanoid race
Location/Base of Operations: Planet Mimm
Known Members: Unidentified spy
Affiliations: Unrevealed
Enemies: Lizard Men of the red planet, Human race
First Appearance: Journey into Mystery I#95/3
(August, 1963)
Powers/Abilities: The Mimmians could assume any
form they desired, mimicking other alien races, such as human beings and
Lizard Men.
Their spies were trained to speak alien languages and to pilot spacecraft of other alien races.
Traits: The Mimmians race perfected infiltration
and spying.
Type: Semi-humanoid (variable)
Eyes: Light purple with light brown pupils (variable)
Fingers: At least three (likely four) with an opposable thumb (variable)
Skin: Light brown gray
(variable)
Average height: 5'9" (by approximation)
Other Distinguishing Features: The Mimmians had long flat eyebrows similar to antennae, as
well as horns.
History:
(Journey into Mystery#95/3) - In the year 1996 of the Mimmian time,
travel through galaxies was possible. Mimmians and Humans had the
technology level to travel in open space using spaceships. Planet Mimm
was at war with the alien Lizard Men race.
The inhabitants of the planet Mimm
were renown to be able to assume any form they desired, so in those
years, their governors regularly sent spies into the Lizard Men territories.
A Mimmian spy was flying far from the
galaxies when his his space-jet had troubles with the engines. The
Mimmian had assumed the shape of a human being, and had documents that
proved that he came from planet Earth. The pilot found a planet where it
was possible to land in order to repair the spaceship. The world
atmosphere contained oxygen; moreover, soaring the surface, it seemed
nobody inhabited it, thus the Mimmian landed and started exploring it.
Shortly after he, was found and captured by some Lizard Men that had observed his landing. They immediately restrained him, believing he was a Mimm sent there to spy on them. He wasn't able to deceive them into believing that he was a human.
The "human" Mimm was bound to a tree, to wait for the day after, when he would have probably been executed as a spy. During the night, he managed to free himself from the ropes and got on his jet to fly away, only to find that it had been sabotaged. The "human" Mimm, then transmitted an S.O.S. to another human spaceship which was near enough to the Red Planet.
The humans went to rescue the
"prisoner". They landed near the Lizard Men outpost, and, with their
technologically superior weapons of concentrated solar beams,
overpowered the Lizard Men, who run for the hills. During the battle,
the Mimm stole the reserve ship from the humans' spaceship and fled. The
Mimm didn't want to risk that the humans could uncover him.
Comments: Created by Stan "The Man" Lee and Larry Lieber.
The Mimmian didn't know that the
Lizard Men were on the red planet. He had already assumed a human form,
so he probably had already spied on the humans, and was going back home.
The Mimmian stated that the he was traveling in 1996. It was told as he was a human being speaking to readers of year 1963, so it seemed to refer to a future era. However, nothing denies that he was referring to the Mimm time system. The thing that sets the story in the future (or in an alternate timeline) is that the humans depicted in the story have advanced galaxy-travel and weaponry technology level.
Profile by Spidermay.
CLARIFICATIONS:
images: (without ads)
Journey into Mystery#95/3, page 5, pan 6 (Mimmian in his furry form)
Journey into Mystery#95/3, page 5, pans 3-4-5 (shapeshifting from human
to Mimm)
Appearances:
Journey into Mystery#95/3 (August, 1963) - Stan Lee and Larry Lieber
(script), Larry Lieber (pencils and inks)
First Posted: 04/06/2026
Last updated: 04/08/2026
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