THE MARTIANS (1933)

SOURCES: "Time's Mausoleum" (Amazing Stories, December 1933)

DESCRIPTION: “Zlestrm moved the time bubble to a position which brought their vision within the spacecraft. It contained two creatures of strange build and over-large heads, grotesque caricatures of mankind.” (“Time's Mausoleum” by Neil R. Jones)

NOTES: The Martians rose to a space-traveling civilization while humans were still in caves. Because of their warring behavior they are gone from their planet by the time humans get there 200,000 years later.

HISTORY: Jones seems to be commenting on war but may just be offering a logical reason why the Martians don't appear in human history.