Magician from Mars: Difference between revisions

== Biography ==

[[File:Cathode ray bath.png|thumb|left|210px|A newborn Jane is hit by rays from a [[cathode tube]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')]]Born to the interspecies couple of [[Jane Faro]] and [[Jarl 6em35]], Jane 6em35 received her first name at her mother's request. On the day she was born, the hospital nurse carrying her accidentally exposed her to rays from a [[cathode tube]] without realising it. The ray bath interacted with baby Jane's biology, awakening powers which only began to manifest when she reached the age of six.  

[[File:Jane and ice cream cone.png|thumb|right|210px|A young Jane experiments with her powers by wishing an ice cream cone into existence. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')]]One day, the young Jane, home alone, accidentally broke a vase belonging to her mother. Wishing for all the world that it would come back together, she saw, to her amazement, that it did. Realising her mind held power over matter, she experimented further, creating an ice cream cone out of nothing, and then a wide array of toys which she levitated in her bedroom in a mad jig. Jane's mother came home to this spectacle and, realising the magnitude of this revelation, told her daughter to keep her powers a secret. In subsequent years, Jane suffered from being ostracised by other children her age, who thought her unusual intelligence and abnormal strength too weird and off-putting to let her join in their games. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')

[[File:Jane free again.png|thumb|left|220px|Jane runs away from her abusive home. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')]]After her parents died, Jane went to live with her [[Martian]] aunt [[The Hood|Kanza]], who lived in the Martian countryside. Kanza harboured no love for Jane, but was determined to raise her as though she were a full-blooded Martian, forbidding her from visiting [[Earth]] as well as discouraging her from exercising her magical powers — which she continued to do in secret, notably learning how to harness her magical abilities to increase her physical strength. Though Jane blindly loved Kanza as a relative, she was not blind to the stifling influence the old woman exerted over her, leading Jane to decide to run away on her own.  

Kanza, somehow foreseeing this development, became more coercive than ever, locking Jane in a windowless [[supersteel]] room, but this only inspired Jane to push her powers further than ever before, allowing her to tear through the supersteel room bare-handed. Speeding through the countryside, Jane made her way to the nearest airport, where she snuck aboard a liner headed for Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')

[[File:Jane declares herself the Magician from Mars.png|thumb|right|225px|After acquiring a new outfit, Jane first declares herself “the Magician from Mars” — albeit in jest! ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'')]]On the way to [[Earth]], Jane changed out of her Martian gown and into more practical Earth clothes; she reflected on how odd it was that she now looked just like an Earth-woman despite being a “Magician from Mars”, her first use of a phrase she would come to adopt as her name. When the ship she'd boarded was hit by a meteor, she used the commotion to her advantage to use her powers to steal a three-million-dollar shipment of gold from the ship's vault before repairing the damage to the hull with her mind, leaving the [[Captain (Magician From Mars…)|Captain]] and crew to assume they had simply imagined the entire incident.

Arriving on Earth, she donated half of the stolen fortune to [[Doctor Clinton]], a scientist studying cures for infant paralysis, giving to the [[Nurse (Magician From Mars…)|nurse]] who served as his assistant. On a whim, she referred to herself as simply “the Magician from Mars” when speaking to the nurse; after she relayed this to Clinton, he surprised Jane by putting out an open letter in the newspapers thanking the mysterious “Magician from Mars” for the service she had done to mankind. Inspired, Jane decided to use the rest of the money to properly outfit “the Magician from Mars” as an actual superhero. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Magician From Mars… (comic story)|Magician From Mars…]]'') She adopted the civilian identity of “Jane Q-X3”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[On Earth (comic story)|On Earth]]'')

[[File:The Magician from Mars in On Earth.png|thumb|left|245px|The Magician contemplates her handiwork after saving an [[air train]] whose [[magnetic induction coil]]s had been sabotaged. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[On Earth (comic story)|On Earth]]'')]]After taking a tour of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], the Magician returned to [[New York City]]. Her liner passed under the [[Manhattan Bridge]] just in time for her to use her powers to save a [[Builder (On Earth)|would-be suicide]]; after saving him, she got him to tell her his story. He helped him build a great monument in a few seconds based on his blueprints, freeing him from the control of a [[Politician (On Earth)|crooked businessman]]; after the latter insulted her, she smacked him around briefly using her inhuman strength to teach him a lesson.