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Marvin the Martian was a real hit with me and millions of others from the time of his first Looney Tunes appearance. If you do a search of Marvin you might be surprised at how many web sites are dedicated to the cute little extraterrestrial. And as we anxiously await news of the Phoenix Mars Lander hoping it will be successful it isn’t so much the many SciFi scenarios of life on Mars that come to my mind as the various cartoons with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig dealing with Marvin. For those of us who saw War of the Worlds when it first came out in 1953 the special effects were chillingly awesome at the time and acknowledged by winning an Oscar. And though I’m old enough to recall the Orson Welles 1938 broadcast that panicked so many continuing to be a topic of interest among several of the adults around me back then, it was Walt Kelly who pointed out in Pogo there was no need of worrying about Martians destroying the world, that we earthlings were quite...
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