Top-quality aliens, fresh-baked!
Unnamed Species:
This unnamed species has that most delightful and implausible of features, an organic wheel that they use to locomote around! Other than that they're your typical underground dwelling species: they live far enough under the surface or have an extensive enough range that one can enter their kingdom in the Himalayas and exit in Iran; they have a captured surface woman named Rina as their queen but the real power lies with "He", who is four or five times bigger than the rest of his species; and they are very sensitive to sound. Regular stuff.
Those wheels though! (Wonderworld Comics 011, 1940)
Earth-Men:
The Earth-Men are the fellows who worship the ancestor-god Sakka, as detailed in a Divine Round-Up a couple of months back. They're little bug-eyed guys with a high incidence of male-pattern baldness and a hostile attitude until adventurer Rocky Ryan kind of accidentally convinces them that he is the reincarnation of Sakka.
In the peaceful times that follow, Ryan's companion Professor Ames is able to explore the Earth-Man city and make some frankly astounding discoveries, including the facts that
1: There used to be a land mass spanning the Pacific between South America and Asia
2. At the time, Earth had 2 moons, one of which then exploded
3. The force of the exploding moon sank the Pacific continent
4. The Earth-Men are the remnants of that Pacific civilization, and their shrunken stature and big ol' eyes are a result of living in a dense jungle, somehow.
It's a real upending of everything that we thought we knew about the history of the Earth, plus now Ames has enough material for a book. Publish or perish, huzzah! (Big Shot Comics 014, 1941)
Mercurians (Three Types):
Space Adventurer Flint Baker and his companion Mimi make their way to the planet Mercury, where he finds a city strewn with humanoid corpses. Eventually, they find a single survivor, who reveals that he is the last of the Western Hemisphere Mercurians, the rest having been wiped out by...
... the Eastern Hemisphere Mercurians, a rowdy bunch of cave-man types who storm in and kidnap Mimi before Flint can do anything to prevent it. Through a series of battles, he recovers Mimi and seemingly wipes out the Eastern Mercurians in turn. Mercury is now an uninhabited planet.
But not for long, because Flint then uses the atomic conversion pistol gifted to him by the last of the Western Mercurians to make a whole new batch of hot Mercurians out of some nearby flowers and install them in the now-deserted city. (Planet Comics 006, 1940)
Erostians:
After space vigilante Cosmic Carson's men shoot down a pirate ship over planetoid Eros, both they and the pirates' victims come under attack by the green, caveman-like Erostians, who carry off as many women as they can get their grubby green mitts on (bonus entry: these women are all Venusians).
Cosmic Carson himself sets out to rescue the captives and ends up a prisoner himself, wherein he learns that the Erostians are not simply a species of humanoid aliens, but the former dominant species of Earth, thrown down and banished to Eros by some ancient scientist. Plus, they eat people, with a preference for pretty women. It's actually a bit of a roller coaster, as the standard alien lust for human (or humanoid) women is explained by the fact that the Erostians are also human or at least homo but then their desire turns out not to be lust but gluttony and thus back in the realm of the inexplicable.
Anyway, Cosmic Carson blasts most of them to smithereens. (Science Comics 005, 1940)
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