Aleister Crowley drew “Lam” in 1919:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supposed_channeled_entity_by_occultist_crowley.jpg
The same year that First Man On the Moon was released:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1919_film)
Which is based on a HG Wells 1901 book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/52501/pg52501-images.html
But Wells doesn’t IIRC ever describe them as “Gray aliens” we detail today.
From the 1919 film:
https://www.alamy.com/a-scene-from-…845bc785175e7fad967688f2b8f22ecc&searchtype=0
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