This is for Mothrabro's jam Drew's House of Horrors 2024 with the Dynamite Entertainment version of Vampirella being kidnapped by aliens, namely Marvin the Martian and some of his Instant Martians.
Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969). Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in which capacity she remained through issue #8 (Nov. 1970), to a horror-drama leading character. Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
Vampirella was originally presented as an inhabitant of the planet Drakulon, a world where a vampiric race lived on blood and where blood flowed in rivers. Drakulon orbits twin suns that were causing droughts across the planet, marking certain doom for Vampirella and her race. The race of which Vampirella was born, the Vampiri, were able to transform themselves into bats at will, possessed superhuman physical attributes, sprout wings when required to fly, and drink blood. The story begins with the inhabitants of Drakulon dying slowly due to the drying up of its blood. The last few lie dying when a spaceship from Earth crashes on the planet. Vampirella, sent to investigate, is attacked; retaliating, she discovers that the astronauts have blood in their veins. In order for her race to survive, she manages to pilot the ship back to Earth where her adventures begin. Vampirella becomes a "good" vampire, and devotes her energy to ridding our world of the evil kind. Evil vampires owe their existence to Dracula, who came from Drakulon but was corrupted by Chaos.
Marvin the Martian is a fictional character that appears as one of Bugs Bunny's primary enemies in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
Since Elmer Fudd was considered too clueless and affable to be a threat, and Yosemite Sam was quickly becoming just as hopeless, Chuck Jones felt the time would come for Bugs Bunny to meet a new kind of villain altogether, a villain who is both very shrewd and who posed a true threat.
So the alien menace that would be known as Marvin the Martian was created for the 1948 short Haredevil Hare, being a more calculating, courteous, relaxed and destructive opponent than those that came before him he nonetheless found himself defeated in the end by Bugs Bunny - although he only appeared in five golden-age shorts, due to his popularity he returned and has stayed on as one of the Looney Tunes' most popular villains, appearing in many cartoons and films as well as countless merchandise, Marvin has even been adopted as the mascot of a few NASA vehicles among other things.
Many of his villainous acts involve intending to destroy the Earth with a deadly weapon called the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" (sometimes pronounced "Illudium Pu-36" or "Uranium Pu-36") which looks like an ordinary stick of dynamite. However, this plan is always foiled and the modulator ends up exploding near him instead.
Instant Martians are the names given to Martians that Marvin the Martian grew from seeds in Hare-Way to the Stars". He sent them after Bugs Bunny, but they were outsmarted by him.
Prior to this short, they appeared in Jumpin' Jupiter as Jovians, but their "instant" nature is not depicted. Younger versions of them appear in Duck Dodgers. One of them also made a very brief cameo appearance in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, sleeping on the job of guarding the ship and failing to notice Bugs and Daffy got it. They re-appear in The Looney Tunes Show during Marvin's music video "I'm a Martian." In this short video, in addition to one being a DJ and one a hippie guitarist, there are also very attractive female Martians seen dancing. They next appeared in another music video "Be Polite." They later appear living in Marvin's house on Mars in The Looney Tunes Show. They also appear in Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run disguised as Cecil Turtle's goons.
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