Mars Attacks: Kids and Counterculture

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In 1962, a pack of trading cards known as Mars Attacks would release that would coincide with the rise of counterculture, becoming a massive hit with youth at the time! This is the real story behind those cards.

Chapters:

00:00 – Ad Read
01:13 – The Mars Attacks Broadcast Incident
02:49 – Mars Attacks: Kids and Counterculture
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Video Credits:

Intro Music: https://youtu.be/HxfaUtna-oY
Outro Music: https://youtu.be/hpPsS7BS4Z0

Sources:
Mars Attacks
Len Brown & Zina Saunders
https://books.apple.com/us/book/mars-attacks/id564284322
https://www.oldsportscards.com/mars-attacks-cards/

Written By: Sep

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21 thoughts on “Mars Attacks: Kids and Counterculture”

  3. When I was like twelve I found a book from the library that was like a collection of the original run of cards with the descriptions on the opposite page. The art was insanely graphic and I probably shouldn’t have been looking at it at such a young age but I was hooked. I still have the book and will flip through it every now and then. Absolutely nostalgic for me, I love Mars Attacks

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  6. Always liked the cards love the movie I used to draw in a bunch of security and nowadays I do paintings of it and those were always once that's sell very well even though I mainly do portraits instead of the full sized cards but I might start doing something the similar to that

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  16. I didn't know Mars Attack had such a long history (being way too young and from Europe) The movie always stuck with me and it was one of the movies that terrified me as a kid (the other being Jaws XD)

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  17. You, directly or indirectly, touched on my frustrations with the boomer generation. Like so many generations before them, they have these rose tinted views of their childhoods and forget that the things they liked and did weren't exactly as spotless as they like to present it. This was the tail end of the era when comic books and the TV were viewed as developmental hazards and we're proven not to be, and now, 50+ years later those same kids are blaming video games, and ironically enough TV, for the ills of the younger generations. It's a neverending cycle.

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  19. I use to watch this when I was a kid in the early 2000’s (born in 97). Whenever my dad was scrolling through the guide on cable and saw that this movie was playing, he would turn it on, and it would ALWAYS be at the alien invasion part, and then I’d watch it all the way until the end.

    Years later, as a teenager, I wanted to re-watch it. When I re-watched it, I realized that there was more to the movie before the alien invasion, and that really made me feel like I got another little bonus. Just a funny thought.

    Mars Attacks has always been one of my favorites. The cast, the humor, the horror aspects, the weirdness, and the memories while watching it. Such a gem!

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