"The Face on Mars": the Comic Strip
Here seems to be
something that is rather strange: During September in the year 1958 a
was published called: "The Face On Mars" (http://kirbymuseum.org/thefaceonmars),
by the famous comic book author Jack Kirby (1917-1994). This was
however 18 years before
the discovery of the so called "Face" by the Viking orbiter in the
year 1976. Kirby's
his Face on Mars bears a rather striking resemblance to the real one,
as far as we can see the face on Mars below its layer of sand. The
biggest difference is that the face in the comic is standing upright
instead of laying down.; Just
compare the broad nose, wide mouth and wide eyes which look as if
How could he
have known about the face on Mars? Kirby was known to have an obsession
with aliens UFOs and ancient astronauts. It is assumed that he was also
been inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' comic series called: "John
Carter of Mars' from the '20's. According to science fiction legend
Fritz Leiber, Burrough's himself was influenced by the insights of
"Madame" Blavatsky's Theosophical Society, thus likewise Kirby's also
could have got the idea from the information of psychic intuitives, or
perhaps he himself saw it in a dream or vision.
A complete description of the comic, from the website: www.comicbookresources.com:
Suddenly, Fisher begins to gasp for breath! Blacking out as he falls into oblivion, Fisher eventually awakens on the floor of the Martian desert, with an oxygen mask strapped to his face, while his expedition-mates hover over him.
Fisher explains that the statue [the Face on Mars] contains ‘a visual history of a race’s heroic death – and the triumph of a surviving memory’. Later, as they pilot their rocket to Jupiter, to earth, Fisher and his team take careful notice of the debris-strewn asteroid belt – ‘the pieces of a planet that blew up between Mars and Jupiter …."
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