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TITLE:
The Money That Came to Life
WRITER:
Jack Miller
ARTIST:
Ruben Moreira
INKER:
Ruben Moreira
CHARACTERS:
Roy Raymond
PLOT:
N/A
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TITLE:
The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel
WRITER:
Joe Samachson
ARTIST:
Joe Certa
INKER:
Joe Certa
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Martian Manhunter; Lt. Saunders; Professor Mark Erdel
PLOT:
Professor Mark Erdel has designs a robot brain that can probe other dimensions. The first time he uses the machine to probe space and time, the machine teleports a green-skinned alien to Earth.
Using telepathy the alien communicates to Dr. Erdel. After both introduce themselves to each other, J’onzz asks Erdel to return him to Mars. Erdel replies that he cannot do that, since it might take years to reverse his computer’s program. The Martian, knowing he must adapt his appearance to that of humans, uses his chameleon-like powers to make himself look like a brown-haired Caucasian human male. Seconds afterward, the shock of the preceding events takes its toll on Erdel’s weak heart. With his last breaths, Erdel asks J’onzz to forgive him for making him a prisoner of Earth. Then he dies.
J’onzz muses that the Martians are working on a “Project Star-Ride” for interplanetary travel. But until that project is completed--however long that may take--he is bound to Earth. He Americanizes his name to John Jones. Then, going to the seaside, he uses his Martian mind-over-matter power to extract gold from seawater to give him working capital. John Jones then takes a tour of the Earth, sometimes using his powers of invisibility and immateriality to conceal his presence.
One aspect of Terran life disturbs J’onn J’onzz: crime. Since Earth is a younger planet than Mars, and since Mars underwent the “Great Evolution” centuries ago that virtually wiped out crime, its rate of wrongdoing is much less than that of Earth. J’onzz decides to help the Earthmen by fighting crime. In his John Jones identity, he takes and passes a detective exam at the Midtown police department. But he realizes he must avoid a Martian’s one weakness--fire, which can sap his powers and take his life.
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