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<\/a><\/div>\nThis unnamed species has that most delightful and implausible of features, an organic wheel that they use to locomote around! Other than that they’re your typical underground dwelling species: they live far enough under the surface or have an extensive enough range that one can enter their kingdom in the Himalayas and exit in Iran; they have a captured surface woman named Rina as their queen but the real power lies with “He”, who is four or five times bigger than the rest of his species; and they are very sensitive to sound. Regular stuff. <\/p>\n
Those wheels though! (Wonderworld Comics 011, 1940)<\/p>\n
Earth-Men<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Earth-Men are the fellows who worship the ancestor-god Sakka<\/a>, as detailed in a Divine Round-Up a couple of months back. They’re little bug-eyed guys with a high incidence of male-pattern baldness and a hostile attitude until adventurer Rocky Ryan kind of accidentally convinces them that he is the reincarnation of Sakka. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the peaceful times that follow, Ryan’s companion Professor Ames is able to explore the Earth-Man city and make some frankly astounding discoveries, including the facts that <\/p>\n 1: There used to be a land mass spanning the Pacific between South America and Asia <\/p>\n 2. At the time, Earth had 2 moons, one of which then exploded<\/p>\n 3. The force of the exploding moon sank the Pacific continent<\/p>\n 4. The Earth-Men are the remnants of that Pacific civilization, and their shrunken stature and big ol’ eyes are a result of living in a dense jungle, somehow.<\/p>\n It’s a real upending of everything that we thought we knew about the history of the Earth, plus now Ames has enough material for a book. Publish or perish, huzzah! (Big Shot Comics 014, 1941)<\/p>\n Mercurians (Three Types)<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Space Adventurer Flint Baker and his companion Mimi make their way to the planet Mercury, where he finds a city strewn with humanoid corpses. Eventually, they find a single survivor, who reveals that he is the last of the Western Hemisphere Mercurians, the rest having been wiped out by…<\/p>\n … the Eastern Hemisphere Mercurians, a rowdy bunch of cave-man types who storm in and kidnap Mimi before Flint can do anything to prevent it. Through a series of battles, he recovers Mimi and seemingly wipes out the Eastern Mercurians in turn. Mercury is now an uninhabited planet.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n