Martian Earth, but faced a process of devolution as conditions on the planet worsened. "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958–59) is a British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London. The wreck evidences that the human population of Earth resulted from the experiments of a Martian civilisation, now long dead. A film remake was released in 1967. "Ghosts of Mars" (2001) human invaders war with Martians in an attempt to conquer Mars. In the "Invader Zim" episode "Battle of the Planets" (2001), Zim discovers that a Martian race died off after converting Mars into a giant spacecraft. In
Mr. Martian Mr. Martian Mr. Martian (AKA: CH'kk Kk'xx – Chuck Cox) is a fictional character in Big Bang Comics, who first appeared in "Big Bang" #21, but didn't receive his own story until "World Class Comics" #1. CH'kk Kk'xx is a Martian originally sent to investigate planet Earth and see that the Nuclear Age went without disaster. CH'kks' spaceship crashed outside of Roswell after being shot down by the American Air Force, mistaking it for a Communist attack. CH'kk went underground as Chuck Cox, and soon came to like the Earth, and instead decided to defend it from his own planet.