The Martians, also known as the Invaders, are the main antagonists from the H.G. Wells 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. Their efforts to exterminate the populace of the Earth and claim the planet for
Wells' Martians as featured in a 1927 Amazing Stories reprint edition, artwork by Frank R. Paul
The War of the Worlds is a 1953 American science fiction thriller film directed by Byron Haskin, produced by George Pal, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The first film adaptation of H. G. We
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A Martian cylinder crashes into the farmhouse where Dr. Forrester and Sylvia Van Buren have taken refuge.
Dr. Forrester discusses with fellow scientists ways to defeat the Martians after a powerful atomic bomb blast fails to penetrate the Martians' electromagnetic "umbrella".
A manta-like Martian fighting machine hovers on invisible magnetic legs, armed with a cobra-like heat ray and a pair of "skeleton beams" on the sides