John Martin (Earth-616)

Machine Gun Martin
Name	John Martin
Current Alias	Machine Gun Martin
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Mob Boss
Base of Operations	Kral IV
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
First	Fantastic Four #91 (July, 1969)
First	Fantastic Four #91 (July, 1969)
Death	Fantastic Four #91 (July, 1969) (Mentioned)
Death	Fantastic Four #91 (July, 1969) (Mentioned)

History

John "Machine Gun" Martin was a notorious mobster who earned his nom de guerre for his choice of weapon, the machine gun. Martin was locked away for his crimes in the early 1930s. Breaking out of prison he was on the run from the law, until Martin was abducted by a Skrull Slave-Master from the planet Kral IV. On Kral, the style, mannerisms, and speech of Martin so fascinated the Skrulls there they began adopting the culture, co-opted from footage they took of Earth as well as from Martin himself. Before his death, Machine Gun Martin had influenced the entire planet of Kral to adopt the esthetics of Martin's era. Kral's inhabitants even erected a statue of him in his memory.

Martin's disappearance remained a mystery for years on Earth, although UFO sightings around the time of his disappearance added to the wild speculations of the time. His disappearance was later reported upon in a 1939 edition of the Daily Bugle.

The fate of Machine Gun Martin was not learned until many decades later during the modern age, when the planet Kral was visited by members of the Fantastic Four.

Martin's legacy endures to this very days with the majority of Skrulls on Kral IV still adopting the trappings of Machine Gun's era.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

While on Earth, Machine Gun Martin used the very weapon that was his namesake.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of John Martin (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of John Martin (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of John Martin (Earth-616)