![]() He took the identity of the Bronze Wraith, and fought crime with the Justice Experience. It was later revealed that Mars was dead when J'onn was taken, killed by a mental plague deliberately started by his brother Ma'alefa'ak. As he was dying, Erdel asked J'onn for forgiveness for making him a prisoner of Earth. When J'onn shapeshifted into a human-like form, Erdel was shocked and suffered a heart attack that killed him. Erdel put the idea into his head that he should become a great champion, and thus J'onn adopted the heroic guise of the Martian Manhunter. Eventually, J'onn's sanity was restored, and he was prepared to function in this strange, new world. He created a back-story inspired by the writings of famous science fiction novelists such as Ray Bradbury and Edgar Rice Burroughs. In an effort to heal J'onn's mind, Erdel used the mental link to fabricate a new history for the Martian. The anguish of J'onn's mental state created a psychic bond between the two, and Erdel became aware of the events that took place on Mars. The beam brought J'onn back to Erdel's natural time era, where he collapsed on the ground outside of the doctor's Colorado laboratory.Įrdel brought the distraught Martian inside and attempted to nurse him back to health. The transmitter beam streaked across both space and time, striking the Martian Manhunter at a point in time several centuries before Erdel would even be born. Seeking to make contact with extraterrestrial life, he aimed his device towards the vicinity of Mars and activated it. Saul Erdel developed a transmitter machine based upon ancient Martian technology. ![]() Meanwhile, on the planet Earth, a would-be scientist named Dr. The trauma of the event shattered his psyche, and nearly drove him mad. J'onn was anguished as he watched his family burning to death before his very eyes. K'hym was the first to experience the symptoms, and M'yri'ah followed soon after. J'onn desperately tried to keep his wife and daughter from using their mental gifts, but they were unable to do so, and thus ultimately contracted the virus. The plague responded to a Martian's innate fear of fire, causing them psychosomatic stress so intense, that their bodies and minds would literally burst into flame. The virus reacted to telepathic energy and carried from one Martian to the next whenever they elected to use their psionic powers. In an ambitious endeavor to commit full-scale genocide against his own people, he engineered a contagious virus known as H'ronmeer's Curse. Years passed, and J'onn's brother Ma'alefa'ak grew to despise everything about Martian culture. The two established a modest home for themselves beneath the windswept Martian plains and gave birth to a daughter named K'hym. ![]() He was named Ma'alefa'ak, whose name means "Darkness in the Heart."Īs an adult, J'onn became a Manhunter (police officer) and married a Martian woman named M'yri'ah. The bearing of twins was uncommon among the Martian culture, and as such, the first of the twins was named J'onn J'onzz, whose name means "Light to the Light." J'onn's brother, however, was born a mutant, bereft of a Martian's innate ability to communicate telepathically. 1.7 Infinite Crisis and "One Year Later"Ĭenturies ago on the planet Ma'aleca'andra, the Green Martians known as M'yrnn and Sha'sheen gave birth to twin sons.1.4 Martian Manhunter Without John Jones Justice League of America.
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