A comic book ad promoting the film in 1953
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Load Times May Be Slow - But Worth It!!

..I'm David McLean, junior scientist! And as I go to bed this night, I have not thought of waking to an unbelievable nightmare of death and evil!!"
"It is 4 a.m. when lightning and thunder rouse me running to close the window, I am blinded by a green spaceship zooming into a sandpit behind my home, and deafened by a loud humming noise!! "I am sure the fire-ball is a spaceship, my father, an engineer at the Coral Bluffs hush-hush atomic project, laughs, but goes to investigate."

Mrs. McLean, "but it did happen officer! My husband walked out there and vanished! If you'll only look around..."

Police Officer, "Sure - lady - but it's crazy!!"

"The officers disappear in the field - too - then my father comes back - but he is different - - cold and hard, he has a vivid red scar the back of his neck. When I ask him about it..."

David's father, "Don't call me a liar! I said I ran into a barbed wire fence!!"

"The police return with red neck scars too. Then, through my telescope, I see Kathy Wilson swallowed up!"
"When Kathy comes back, she burns down her home and then drops dead!"

Kathy's mom, "KATHY!!"

"More and more people vanish briefly returning with the red scars. Even my mother does. I try to warn people of the terrible danger, no one will believe me until I meet Dr. Pat Blake."

Dr. Pat Blake, "We're going to see Prof. Kelston at the observatory! He'll know what to do-"

"Prof. Kelston wastes no time....He phones General Mayberry at Coral Bluffs, but.."

David, "My father and the General! But who - what is in that sandpit-?

Prof. Kelston, "I am fairly sure it is a spaceship, commanded by a Martian and manned by synthetic humans called Mutants! We must move fast or Coral Bluffs and all of us will be destroyed!!
"Orders crackle over long-distance phones-snap along wireless waves - and swiftly the Army moves in!! "Electronics expert Roth make a hair raising discovery!"

Soldier, "This came from Kathy's neck! It is a radio receiver sunk in the brain by the Martians!!

Roth, Then if we can find the wave length, we can locate the spaceship's underground hiding place!

This is done. The Army blasts a hole in the sandpit. Soldiers pour underground - But not in time to keep Pat and me from being captured by the Mutants!! As they drag us to the spaceship and their hideous Martian Master, we see the dreaded infra-red disintegrator at work -
For the tense and gripping underground battle between men of earth and the horrendous creatures from outer space.. For the daring rescues of Pat and me... For the fate of the spaceship and it's frightful passengers-- See "INVADERS FROM MARS" coming soon to your local neighborhood movie theatre -