Classification: Cephalopod extraterrestrial race (Mars-based)

Location/Base of Operations: Apparently Mars;
    planet of origin unrevealed;
    in the early 20^th century, number of Martians landed in England and established a base in Regent's Park, London; they were active in the regions of Barnes, Kington, Lambeth, London, Richmond, Surrey, Weybridge and Wimbledon;
    in the modern era, they have been active in London on Earth, as well as on the Kree-world Hala and on a cosmic chessboard created by unidentified space titans;
    active in the early 20^th Century as well as in the modern era

Known Members: Kurt Dagmar impostor; others unidentified (including those impersonating members of the Kree elite serving "Tanalth," the statues on the cosmic gameboard; possibly some of Earth's Eternals (see comments); the Kree advisor Van-Drall may have been an ally or a Martian impostor)

Affiliations: Possibly Immortus (Nathaniel Richards);

Enemies: Humanity in general
    Cardigan Infantry, Dr. and Mrs. Elphinstone, Ruth Elphinstone, Freedom's Five (Crimson Cavalier/Jean-Luc Batroc, Phantom Eagle/Karl Kaufmann, Sir Steel/Ned Chapel, Union Jack/Montgomery, Lord Falsworth), "Invaders" (Captain America/Steve Rogers, Destroyer/Roger Aubrey, Human Torch/Jim Hammond, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Spitfire/Jacqueline Falsworth, Toro/Thomas Raymond, Union Jack/Joey Chapman, Winter Soldier/James "Bucky" Barnes; plus associate Iron Cross/Clare Gruler), Killraven-691 (Jonathan Raven), Makkari, the Men on the Wall, (notably Eben Stafford and  the member apparently transported to Mars), Henderson, Ogilvy, Orson Randall (aka Iron Fist), "Tanalth the Accuser" (actually the skrull R'Klll), George and his unidentified wife, Harry (George's brother), crew of the Thunder Child, unidentified clergyman and military circa 1901 A.D.;
   
    Deathlok-712 (Luther Manning) and the Multiversal Deathlok army summoned and enslaved by the Kurt Dagmar impostor certainly considered him an enemy;
    formerly terrestrial microbes

Powers/Abilities: At least as of the modern era, the "Martian Masters" were metamorphs, able to take on the specific forms of not only humanoid bipeds, but also of massive apparently stone statues, which they could animate and use to strike with the force of beings of their size and composition.
    When defeated, they self-immolated to prevent inspection of their true forms. In some cases, they reverted to their true forms before self-immolating.

    Their forms have varied significantly amongst appearances and over greater than a century. They are cephalopods, with the number of tentacles varying, from three thicker tentacles, to nine in a more octopoid form to even twenty thinner tentacles (although these may also have been extensions of their over-armor).

    Adapted to a lighter gravity, Martians do not function easily in Earth’s gravity, and generally employ machinery for movement, using tripods, bio-chemech armor or hovering platforms.

    Those seen in the early 20^th Century appeared to have two eyes, while those seen in the 21^st Century have three eyes with a beak-like mouth.

    The adaptation, at least, described the "Martians" as having minds that were "to ours as ours were to those of animals."

    Earth's stronger gravity and thicker atmosphere slowed the Martian Masters somewhat, but they nonetheless did not sleep or rest, and they were able to work for 24 hours a day every day.

    In their early 20^th Century mission to Earth, the Martian Masters were highly susceptible to terrestrial microorganisms, which ultimately slew the entire invading fleet.

    Their primary weapons on Earth were the tripods.

    By unspecified means, they could release enormous quantities of black, poisonous vapor, slaying humans, at least, in large numbers.

    As of the early 20^th Century, they possessed spaceships able to travel from Mars to Earth.
    As of the modern era, in the mid-21^st Century, they could teleport -- at least via their tripods -- from Mars to Earth and back.

     Martians circa 1917 wore hover-armor with full body environmental protection casing and wielded hand-held blaster equipment.

    Their presence on Earth in the early 20^th Century led to some red, alien plant growth, sufficient to choke and overrun the Thames river.

The following information relates specifically to the Martian Masters of Reality-691 and may or may not apply to their Reality-616 counterparts.:

• Martians are resistant to extreme heat and cold. They communicate telepathically and reproduce asexually, with young Martians budding from their parent.
  
• Some Martians are precognitive, able to foresee the future.
  
• Many prefer to dwell in or near water for ease of movement. They can communicate verbally with humans, either employing mechanical audio-transmutors or driving their tentacles into a human brain, working the victim like a marionette to verbalize the Martian’s words.
  
• Martians can drive certain tentacles through human flesh, liquefy the interior and suck it back out through the tentacle, leaving only empty skin.

Traits: They were cool and unsympathetic; they behaved logically and without malice, and they had no qualms about consuming other intelligent beings; in fact, they relished human flesh.
    The Martian Masters of Earth-691, at least, found it human flesh particularly palatable when freshly killed in a highly emotional state, as hormones produced by human emotion were delicacies to them.

    They were heard to vocalize "Aroo!" or "Aloo!"

Type: Cephalopod (varying between 3-20 limbs)
Eyes: Two (on head; red color seen)
Fingers: None
Toes: None
Skin color: Pink, orange and red colors observed
Average height: The 21^st Century Martians' central head/body seemed to be perhaps 4-5' or more in diameter, with tentacles extending perhaps 8-10' in length

History:
(Avengers Forever#10 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus appeared in the past of Earth-691, Earth-2120, Earth-9930, and other realities (possibly Earth-616 as well), visiting the staging base of a militant race that had reached Mars (known only as the Martian Masters), turning their attention towards Earth in order to once again roll back Earth's technological development to keep them from expanding out from Earth.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - In the last years of the 19^th century, Earth was watched keenly by "intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own...<who> regarded Earth with envious eyes."

(Avengers Forever#10 (fb) - BTS / Amazing Adventures I#18 (fb) - BTS) - Based on Immortus' guidance, the "Martian Masters" assaulted Earth in 1901 AD, but perished from infection with germs native to Earth.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Early in the 20^th century (on the 12th of an unidentified month), when Mars was barely 40 million miles from Earth (the closest the planets had been in years), the Martians (see comments) launched the first of their vessels toward Earth. This was noted "near midnight" when Lavalle of Java reported a huge outbreak of incandescent gas on Mars, which he subsequently reported, presumably via telegraph, to his colleague Ogilvy in Woking, Surrey, England.

    The next night, Ogilvy invited his friend George to his observatory around midnight, where they witnessed a repeat performance (unknown to them at the time, the launching of another Martian ship). Certain there was no intelligent life on Mars, Ogilvy dismissed these hydrogen explosions as natural phenomena (such as might be caused by a heavy meteor shower or massive volcanic eruptions).

    The Martian launches (and the observations of explosions occurring at midnight) continued for eight more days. Dust storms shrouded Mars from pole to pole, making further observation impossible.

    Two weeks later, the first capsule landed in Surrey, England.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - A crowd of people, including Ogilvy and George, gathered around the crater surrounding the ship. A pair of Martians eventually emerged from the capsule, and their monstrous appearance caused the crowd to flee. The army was summoned. At dusk, Ogilvy led a small group of men (apparently including Henderson) with a white flag, hoping to peacefully interact with the aliens, but when they got within 30 yards of the pit, the ship unleashed a heat ray that incinerated the men. Apparently having constructed a tripod, the Martians subsequently exited their pit.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - The next day, English soldiers attacked the tripod(s) and were slain (excepting their sergeant of artillery, who had gone back to try to calm one of the horse team).

    The Cardigan infantry, with a troop of hussars, made their charge, but the tripod incinerated all two hundred men. 

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - ...the tripod's heat beams devastated the buildings in Maybury Hill, Woking, Surrey, causing the residents to flee.

     George took his wife from their home to her cousins in Leatherhead.

    The next midnight, the arriving Martian ship spooked the horse driving George's carriage, causing it to race blindly, nearly running into a nearby tripod; when George jerked the reins to redirect it, the horse fell and broke its neck.

    Paying them no notice, the tripod strode toward Pyrford, communicating with three fellow Martians in tripods, "Aloo! Aloo!" and finding the third ship. 

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Over the next 7 hours, the Martian tripods devastated the towns and set a broad hillside aflame.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - In Weybridge, at the Thames by Shepperton Lock, arriving tripods caused the people to panic, and George was knocked into the water.

    A military group destroyed one of the tripods and slew its pilot, but the other tripods then slaughtered the armed forces and annihilated the crowd of civilians thereafter.

    George narrowly escaped, fleeing through the water that nearly boiled when the tripod's laser-weapon crashed into it.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Stumbling ashore in Shepperton, George recovered from his near scalding with care from an elderly clergyman.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Meanwhile, the Martians in Surrey, having faced minimal challenge, focused on capturing humans, rather than exterminating them.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - The fifth Martian ship struck and destroyed a house in which George and the clergyman had found a food supply after two and a half days of wandering through desolation.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Discharging enormous quantities of black, poisonous vapor via rockets, the Martians destroyed Richmond, Kington and Wimbledon, destroying everything along the way.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Dr. Elphinstone in Stanmore sent his sister, Ruth, and his wife off in a horse drawn crriage when he heard of the Martians' advance, promising to rejoin them later.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - The Martians similarly destroyed Barnes and Lambeth.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - George's brother, Harry, joined with Ruth Elphinstone and her sister-in-law after their brother and husband, respectively, was hours overdue in meeting them. They rode to Edgeware and Chalk Farm Station, where the entire population moved in a crowd.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - At the sixth night, a ship fell at Wimbledon, and the seventh cylinder fell Tuesday at midnight. Martian tripods approached the coast.

    Wednesday, George and the Elphinstones reached the sea, and they boarded a boat to escape.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - As a trio of Martian tripods approached, the Thunder Child, an ironclad ship that was part of the inshore squadron, charged them. Although the Martians' heat-rays destroyed the ship and slew everyone aboard, the molten ship's momentum carried it to crash into the tripods, destroying them and presumably slaying their pilots.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - On the seventh day, after George had regained consciousness, as he and the clergyman watched, the Martians spent the succeeding days using their "spider-like" handling machines to construct their tripods. The Martians devoured a man...

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - ...and then a young boy. When the clergyman became hysterical, George bludgeoned him with a stick to silence him...

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - ...but a Martian, apparently having heard the raving clergyman, entered the building. George fled as it drug off the clergyman's body, and he hid by a pile of rocks (coal?), narrowly escaping dicovery.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - George remained in hiding, daring not to venture out to eat or drink.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - The local Martians departed. After two days, realizing that the noises from the pit had ceased completely, George investigated and found the Martians to be absent.

    Heading toward London, hoping to find some sign of living man, George observed the Thames, choked and over-run by some red, alien growth: The weed seemed to thrive on water, and it had turned the whole of the Thames Valley into some vast, primeval, crimson swamp.

    The Martians perished, overcome by terrestrial microbes, to which they had no immunity.

    A couple days later, after reaching London proper, George heard howling in South Kensington, and it increased as he headed north.

    Finding a dead Martian in a collapsed tripod with no signs of struggle, George appreciated that the howling had ceased, and he rushed to the Martians' main base in Regent's Park.

    There he found the dead Martians amidst their machines, and he realized that they had been killed by "putrefactive and disease bacteria" against which they had no defense.

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) - BTS) <October, 1917> - Multiple Martian Masters tripods assaulted London. Additionally, at least a quartet of Martian Masters in hover armor traveled to ground level.

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) -BTS) Receiving a report of this assault, Freedom's Five (Crimson Cavalier, Phantom Eagle, Sir Steel, Union Jack; with Orson Randall sitting in for an injured Silver Squire) traveled to London.

    Observing the Martian Masters firing energy blasts that apparently disintegrated those they struck (including a constable). While the Crimson Cavalier and Union Jack engaged the Martians on the ground with blade and gun, Sir Steel and Randall used enchanted sword and the Iron Fist power against the tripod legs.

    When a Martian prepared to blast Cavalier from behind, Union Jack tackled him, knocking him out of the way, but leaving them both at the mercy of the Martians. However, before the Martians could fire, the Phantom Eagle arrived in his biplane and mowed them down with gunfire.

    The Phantom Eagle then fired on one of the tripods to minimal effect and then had to maneuver deftly to avoid return fire from the tripod's blaster weapons. Meanwhile, Randall's repeated punches and kicks shattered one of the tripod's legs, causing the tripod to crash to the ground.

    Although pleased with this victory, the Five appreciated that this was but one of many "walking horrors" and that they barely had the men or the means to overcome this threat.

    Eben Stafford then led the Men on the Wall to join the fight, with Stafford (or another of his men) heavily damaging if not destroying the tripod's main chamber with an energy blast from atop a nearby rooftop, after which  several of the Men rushed forward with their energy blasters.

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   Working from the shadows and the rooftops, the Men on the Wall destroyed multiple Martian Masters; as they were active some distance from Freedom's Five, those heroes had no chance to question their mission or standing.

    One of the Men on the Wall (whom Union Jack later described as "some maniacal chap who thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing like it was some grand day out") leapt from the top of a church spire he had scaled onto the top of one of the tripods, which he proceeded to blast repeatedly.

    Apparently sensing that they had been routed, the Martian Masters then teleported themselves and their tripods away (presumably returning to their Mars base), taking with them the Man who had leapt atop the tripod.

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(All-New Invaders#8 (fb) - BTS) - Kurt Dagmar was apparently an East German terrorist who was at some point either replaced or created as an identity by a Martian (a counterpart of the "Martian Masters" who were opposed by Killraven in Earth-691's early 21^st century).
    As we don't know when the replacement took place (or even that Dagmar was an actual person as opposed to an identity created by the Martian, I'm going to refer to him as Dagmar from this point on;  putting quotation marks around his name or calling him the Dagmar impostor throughout is somewhat tedious and painful to read)

(All-New Invaders#8 (fb) - BTS / All-New Invaders#9 (fb) - BTS) - Dagmar was the head of Stasi, the East German secret police, but he lost his position when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 A.D. He subsequently arrived in Madrippor, and he established himself as an arms dealer, trading ultra-tech to the major terror groups, including Hydra and the Maggia.

(All-New Invaders#9 (fb) - BTS) <Years before the main story> - Dagmar somehow learned of various multiversal incarnations of Deathlok (Luther Manning) of Earth-7484, with whom he became fascinated. Dagmar acquired his first Deathlok by bribing a Roxxon employee.

(All-New Invaders#9 (fb) - BTS / All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - Via this device, Dagmar transported multiple such Deathloks to Earth-616 and placed them under his control (possibly via Iron Cross (Clare Gruler, whom he had also captured and controlled). Dagmar dampened Gruler's abilities and stopped her from accessing computers to send messages. At some point, Dagmar summoned Deathlok (Luther Manning) of Earth-7484 to Earth-616 where he put Manning under his control as part of an army of alternate reality Deathloks he had assembled.

(All-New Invaders#8 (fb) - BTS / All-New Invaders#9 (fb) - BTS / All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - Seeking to take control of the android Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Dagmar had his agents steal the cocoon containing Toro (Thomas Raymond, whose Inhuman nature had been recently discovered).

(All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - Dagmar's lackeys apparently did not realize that he was not human.

(All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - Although Dagmar had dampened Iron Cross' abilities and prevented her from accessing computers, she managed to access a weak signal and send out a message. The Winter Soldier received the Iron Cross' message (although he did not know who had sent it).

(All-New Invaders#8 - BTS) - The Torch was joined by Namor, and they met up with the Winter Soldier at Dagmar's base in Germany's Black Forest, after which they were ambushed by an army of Deathloks.

(All-New Invaders#9) - Dagmar had his agent Bekker take control of and incapacitate the Torch..Dagmar then ordered Deathlok-7484 to use a weapon -- an improved version of a weapon used by the Kree Tanalith the Pursuer -- to slay Namor. Namor expressed curiosity about how Dagmar would have known about Tanalth and how the device had come into Dagmar's possession so quickly and so rapidly improved, but Dagmar replied that Namor would die with his questions unanswered.

     However, Deathlok's blast was deflected by the shield of the arriving Captain America and instead fatally struck Dagmar, who in death resumed his true form. Captain America identified him as a Martian.

(All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - With Dagmar's death, Deathlok-7484 regained his free will and also took command of the other Deathloks, halting the conflict.

(All-New Invaders#10) - As the Invaders, Iron Cross and the various Deathloks started at Dagmar's corpse, Captain America explained that while there was not life on Mars -- "maybe centuries ago, but they're extinct" -- he recognized their description from reports on other realities, notably that of Killraven, who had had a lot to say on the matter.

    The Winter Soldier recommend they call in S.H.I.E.L.D. or S.W.O.R.D. (after his depature) to sort out this mess, but he wondered what "Dagmar" had hoped to achieve with all of the Deathloks and kidnapping Toro to lure the Torch there.

(All-New Invaders#10 (fb) - BTS) - Namor and Iron Cross, at least, concluded that Dagmar's interest was in cybernetics and A.I.'s of varying types.

     The tripods were "Martian Masters"' primary weapons used on Earth. They existed in various forms.

    They had an upper command center, which often housed Martians but sometimes may have been automated, and three long legs, ranging from 30' to perhaps 100' feet long.

    Constructed of unidentified metals, they were relatively durable, although they could be destroyed by powerful artillery or superhuman powers.

    The tripods could fire powerful heat-rays that could incinerate at least 200 people in a single blast or even destroyer a powerful naval ship with mitliple blasts.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - After the first Martian ship landed in Surrey, apparently having constructed a tripod, the Martians subsequently exited their pit.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - The next day, English soldiers attacked the tripod(s) and were slain (excepting their sergeant of artillery, who had gone back to try to calm one of the horse team).

    The Cardigan infantry, with a troop of hussars, made their charge, but the tripod incinerated all two hundred men.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - ...the tripod's heat beams devastated the buildings in Maybury Hill, Woking, Surrey, causing the residents to flee.

    George took his wife from their home to her cousins in Leatherhead.

    The next midnight, the arriving Martian ship spooked the horse driving George's carriage, causing it to race blindly, nearly running into a nearby tripod.

    When George jerked the reins to redirect it, the horse fell and broke its neck.

    Paying them no notice, the tripod strode toward Pyrford, communicating with three fellow Martians in tripods, "Aloo! Aloo!" and finding the third ship.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Over the next 7 hours, the Martian tripods devastated the towns and set a broad hillside aflame.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - In Weybridge, at the Thames by Shepperton Lock, arriving tripods caused the people to panic, and George was knocked into the water.

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    A military group destroyed one of the tripods and slew its pilot, but the other tripods then slaughtered the armed forces and annihilated the crowd of civilians thereafter.

    George narrowly escaped, fleeing through the water that nearly boiled when the tripod's laser-weapon crashed into it.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - Discharging enormous quantities of black, poisonous vapor via rockets, the Martians destroyed Richmond, Kington and Wimbledon, destroying everything along the way.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - The Martians similarly destroyed Barnes and Lambeth.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - At the sixth night, a ship fell at Wimbledon, and the seventh cylinder fell Tuesday at midnight. Martian tripods approached the coast.

    Wednesday, George and the Elphinstones reached the sea, and they boarded a boat to escape.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb)) - As a trio of Martian tripods approached boats and ships attempting to flee by sea, the Thunder Child, an ironclad ship that was part of the inshore squadron, charged them.

    Although the Martians' heat-rays destroyed the ship and slew everyone aboard, the molten ship's momentum carried it to crash into the tripods, destroying them and presumably slaying their pilots.

(Marvel Classic Comics#14 (fb) - BTS) - The Martians perished, overcome by terrestrial microbes, to which they had no immunity.

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) - BTS) <About a decade before 1917> - Martian Masters in tripods attacked England but were presumably ultimately driven off, defeated or slain. The government used the newspaper to hush the whole thing up to stem international panic, although at least some believed that this was done more for the stock market than the people (see comments).

(Original Sin Annual#1 (fb) - BTS) - Eben Stafford was one of the Men on the Wall who had organized to keep humanity safe from (and ignorant of) extraterrestrial threats. They "earned their stripes" against the Martians Masters (see comments) in 1913.

(Original Sin Annual#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Men on the Wall apparently impressed Roosevelt enough to convince him "that big stick of his needed a shield to match" (see comments).

One of the tripods the Men on the Wall encountered was kept in Stafford's trophy room in his mountain base.

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) - BTS) <October, 1917> - Multiple Martian Masters tripods assaulted London. Additionally, at least a quartet of Martian Masters in hover armor traveled to ground level.

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) -BTS) Receiving a report of this assault, Freedom's Five (Crimson Cavalier, Phantom Eagle, Sir Steel, Union Jack; with Orson Randall sitting in for an injured Silver Squire) traveled to London.

    Observing the Martian Masters firing energy blasts that apparently disintegrated those they struck (including a constable). While the Crimson Cavalier and Union Jack engaged the Martians on the ground with blade and gun, Sir Steel and Randall used enchanted sword and the Iron Fist power against the tripod legs.

    When a Martian prepared to blast Cavalier from behind, Union Jack tackled him, knocking him out of the way, but leaving them both at the mercy of the Martians. However, before the Martians could fire, the Phantom Eagle arrived in his biplane and mowed them down with gunfire.

    The Phantom Eagle then fired on one of the tripods to minimal effect and then had to maneuver deftly to avoid return fire from the tripod's blaster weapons. Meanwhile, Randall's repeated punches and kicks shattered one of the tripod's legs, causing the tripod to crash to the ground.

    Although pleased with this victory, the Five appreciated that this was but one of many "walking horrors" and that they barely had the men or the means to overcome this threat.

    Eben Stafford then led the Men on the Wall to join the fight, with Stafford (or another of his men) heavily damaging if not destroying the tripod's main chamber with an energy blast from atop a nearby rooftop, after which  several of the Men rushed forward with their energy blasters.

    Working from the shadows and the rooftops, the Men on the Wall destroyed multiple Martian Masters; as they were active some distance from Freedom's Five, those heroes had no chance to question their mission or standing.

    One of the Men on the Wall (whom Union Jack later described as "some maniacal chap who thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing like it was some grand day out") leapt from the top of a church spire he had scaled onto the top of one of the tripods, which he proceeded to blast repeatedly.

(All-New Invaders#10) - As Martian tripod assaulted London, the Destroyer, Spitfire and Union Jack prepared to engage it, although Spitfire wondered why it was there at all.

(All-New Invaders#10) - Meanwhile, kept in a straitjacket within a padded room in Broadmoor Hospital, Jonathan Raven repeated, "The Martians are coming. They're coming..."

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb)) - As the Destroyer and Union Jack assaulted the top of one of the tripods, Spitfire warned them to get off of it as it was glowing. Both men made it off before the glowing tripod apparently teleported away (presumably to Mars).

(All-New Invaders#10) - As Martian tripod assaulted London, the Destroyer, Spitfire and Union Jack prepared to engage it, although Spitfire wondered why it was there at all.

(All-New Invaders#10) - Meanwhile, kept in a straitjacket within a padded room in Broadmoor Hospital, Jonathan Raven repeated, "The Martians are coming. They're coming..."

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb)) - As the Destroyer and Union Jack assaulted the top of one of the tripods, Spitfire warned them to get off of it as it was glowing. Both men made it off before the glowing tripod apparently teleported away (presumably to Mars).

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) - BTS) - The Winter Soldier (who had recently adopted the role of the Man on the Wall, protecting humanity from extraterrestrial invaders) liberated Jonathan Raven from Broadmoor. "It took a while to talk sense into him -- and to make sense of what Jon had to tell me..."

(All-New Invaders#12 (fb) - BTS) -  As the Destroyer, Spitfire and Union Jack discussed their recent battle after reviewing Montgomery Falsworth's journal, the Winter Solider arrived and introduced them to Jonathan Raven, who told them that the Martians wanted him, or more specifically, the knowledge he had. Jonathan confirmed that he was native to another reality where he had long been fighting the Martians as Killraven.