Magician from Mars
Magician from Mars | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Centaur Publications |
First appearance | Amazing-Man Comics #7 (November 1939) |
Created by | John Giunta Malcolm Kildale |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Jane 6ᴇᴍ35 / Jane Q-X3 |
The Magician from Mars was a
Fictional biography
The Magician's real name was given as "Jane 6ᴇᴍ35" in the first installment (though the second changes her surname to "Q-X3").
The only person aware of Jane's unique talents is her mother, who raises her on Mars. After the deaths of both her parents by the age of sixteen, guardianship is assumed by Jane's aunt Kanza, who dislikes her and eventually confines her to a cell. Jane uses her powers to escape and board a spaceship heading to Earth; after the ship is struck by a meteor, she takes advantage of the confusion to steal three million dollars in gold before absconding in an escape pod. Landing on Earth, she donates half of the money to a doctor trying to cure childhood paralysis and keeps the other half to fund her new superhero career.[5] The strip's final two installments saw the Magician fighting an anonymous villainous mastermind, the Hood, who first tried to conquer the Earth and then launched a war against the king of Mars.[6] The Magician traveled to Mars and saved the kingdom, but at the cost of the life of Martian prince Taal, her love interest; she also discovered the Hood was actually her aunt Kanza, who is without explanation shown to possess powers similar to her own.
References
- ^ Hanley, Terence (2014). "Tellers of Weird Tales: John Giunta (ca. 1920-1970)-Part I" @Tellers of Weird Tales (February 6, 2014). Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ Nicholson, Hope (3 May 2017). "The fury and the fashion: comic-book heroines down the years". The Guardian. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ISBN 9781476638607.
- ISBN 978-1594749483. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-61318-023-5.
- ^ Magician from Mars at the International Catalogue of Superheroes. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
External links
- Magician from Mars at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)