629 – Martian Dad Hunter

A panel from Detective Comics #236, August 1956
A panel from Detective Comics #236, August 1956

The early Martian Manhunter stories relied a bit more on J’onn J’onnz interacting with Mars, like earlier in the year when he encountered a Martian criminal on Earth. In Detective Comics #236 (August 1956), he finds a way to contact his parents on Mars through “recent solar explosions… they must have created space energy that carried my radio wave to Mars!”.