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Aliens also invaded the movies, including the creature from Howard Hawks' film The Thing from Another World (1951), the righteous Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), the “pod people” from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (first filmed in 1956 remade in 19), the title creatures from Twentieth Century Fox's Alien franchise (starting in 1979), and the unnamed race of alien invaders in director Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996).

There are even comedic versions of Martian invaders, including the gnomish creatures in Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks! (1996) and Chuck Jones's Marvin the Martian, nemesis of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (in his Duck Dodgers persona). In 19 the White Martians twice attempted to conquer Earth Superman subsequently banished them into the Phantom Zone. In the revised continuity, most Green Martians perished ages ago, but the White Martians survived in another dimension. In the original continuity, the White Martians devastated their planet, and the surviving Martians abandoned their native world, later making an unsuccessful effort to invade Earth. In both the original and contemporary backstories for the Martian Manhunter, there were a race of green-skinned Martians, to which J'onn belonged, and his enemies, the warlike White Martians. DC Comics even has a Martian superhero, J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, who debuted in Detective Comics #225 (1955) and appears regularly on Cartoon Network's Justice League (2001–2004) and Justice League Unlimited (2004–present).

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Indeed, League includes appearances by Martian races from other authors' books, including Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter, Warlord of Mars series (1917–1943). But Wells' intelligent, octopus-like aliens are hardly the only kind of Martians in popular culture. In the second volume of their comics series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2002–2003), the British duo of writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill depict their team of late Victorian heroes playing a role in Wells' War of the Worlds.

The series, soon retitled Killraven, is best remembered for the remarkable work by writer Don McGregor and artist P. Like a futuristic Spartacus, Killraven, a warrior raised to fight as a gladiator, led a band of freedom fighters in battling the Martians. According to this series, Wells' Martians returned and conquered Earth in 2001. Writer Roy Thomas and artist Neal Adams conceived the basic ideas for Marvel's War of the Worlds series that debuted in Amazing Adventures #18 (1973). Wells' War of the Worlds has also been adapted into comics, including a memorable issue of Classics Illustrated (#124, 1955). Steven Spielberg's 2005 blockbuster adaptation, which, like Welles', focuses on New Jersey, includes allusions to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Animator George Pal produced the 1953 film version, which reflected the tensions of the cold war. Only a year before the start of World War II, Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation included fake news bulletins about the Martians landing in New Jersey thinking the reports were real, many Americans panicked. Whereas Wells wrote about Martians invading Victorian England and leveling London, various later adapters of his work have updated and altered its setting to reflect the concerns of their own time. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. All the many tales of extraterrestrial invaders in twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular culture derive from a single common ancestor, the first great work on this theme, H.