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Synopsis

100 years after failing to conquer Earth, the Martians from H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds returned in the year 2001 and successfully enslaved humanity. Men not used as breeders or collaborators were trained and forced to battle gladiator-style for the Martians' amusement. Killraven escaped and joined the Freemen, a group of freedom fighters against Martian oppression. An artists impression of the Martians from The War of the Worlds. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine. ... A Martian tripod fighting-machine, from the 1978 Jeff Wayne musical version The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. ...

The story followed Killraven and his friends from 2018 through 2020 as they traveled across the eastern portion of North America, from New York City to Cape Canaveral. Pursued by the cyborg hunter Skar, they encountered various eccentric people (many the victims of Martian transhuman experiments) during their search for Killraven's lost brother. Some story ideas that did not make it into the book before cancelation were explored in the Sabre graphic novel. 2018 (MMXVIII) is a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... Cape Canaveral from space, August 1991 Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral in Spanish) is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ... Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an intellectual and cultural movement analyzing and supporting morphological freedom and the use of new sciences and technologies to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition. ... One of the first graphic novels, Sabre (subtitled Slow Fade of an Endangered Species), was written by Don McGregor and illustrated by Paul Gulacy, and published in October 1978 by the company that would become known as Eclipse Comics. ... A graphic novel (GN) is a long-form comic book, usually with lengthy and complex storylines, and often aimed at more mature audiences. ...

Notable creators who worked on the series included writer Don McGregor, artists Herb Trimpe, Gene Colan and P. Craig Russell. Donald F. McGregor (born June 15, 1945, Rhode Island, United States) is an American comic book writer, and the author of one of the first graphic novels. ... Herb Trimpe (1939- ) is an American comic book artist and occasional writer, best remembered for his work on The Incredible Hulk and credited with the co-creation of X-Mens Wolverine in the early 1970s. ... Gene Colan (born September 1, 1926) is an American comic book illustrator who sometimes worked under the name Adam Austin. ... Philip Craig Russell is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator, best known for his work dealing with mythic themes. ...

Cast

Killraven's Freemen allies included his African-American "mud-brother," M’Shulla Scott, and the feisty scientist Carmilla Frost (who shared possibly comics' earliest interracial kiss); the cynical and bitter Hawk; the slow-witted strongman Old Skull; the Mae West-like Volcana Ash; the human/plant hybrid Mint Julep; and Grok, the severely damaged clone of Carmilla's father. Antagonists, besides the Martians (actually extrasolar aliens using Mars as a staging area), included Skar, Pstun-Rage, the Death-Breeders, Atalon the Fear Master, the Sacrificer and Abraxas. An interracial couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of differing races. ... Infrared Image of a possible extrasolar planet (lower left) in the Constellation Taurus, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Appearances

Killraven's complete adventures, listed here, were collected in 2005 in The Essential Killraven.

• Amazing Adventures #18-39
• Marvel Team-Up #45 (1976)
• Marvel Graphic Novel #7: Killraven, Warrior of the Worlds (1983)
• Killraven #1 (Marvel Knights, 2001)

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Other Killravens

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• There was some controversy over whether the Killraven depicted in Amazing Adventures is the same one shown in the past of the Guardians of the Galaxy. The matter was addressed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005. Killraven and the Guardians were said to share the same timeline, christened "Earth-691", however, the relationship to the Mainstream timeline, Earth-616 is currently unclear. This work also established that the Killraven that appeared in Paradise X was the "real" (Earth-691) Killraven.

• Avengers Forever had Killraven as a member of an alternate future Avengers (Earth-9930) led by the Black Panther.

• Alan Davis' 2002 miniseries Killraven (Earth-2120) was a modern variation on the original series.

Cover to Killraven mini-series of 2002, art by Alan Davis.

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Movie

Hollywood trade stories in 2005 reported plans to adapt Killraven, with Marvel and Sony Pictures in negotations with Robert Schenkkan to write a script. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is the television and film production unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony. ... Robert Schenkkan (born March 19, 1953, is an American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work The Kentucky Cycle. ...

Trivia

• Neal Adams' early ideas for Killraven involved him being the son of a Doc Savage archetype.

• Killraven's story has similarities to Battlefield Earth, with a group of ex-slaves fighting alien oppressors on a conquered Earth, though this is not an uncommon theme in science fiction. In fact Killraven was most likely also partly inspired by the various sequels to Planet of the Apes.

• Fans regarded Steven Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds as a realistic depiction of events in Killraven's world.

• In 2005, Jim Valentino said that his aborted plans for Guardians of the Galaxy involved Killraven, in his 50s, joining the team and forming an attraction to Yellowjacket (II). K.R.'s father would have been revealed as Franklin Richards.

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References & further reading

• Comic Book Artist - Neal Adams comments on Killraven
• Earth-Killraven - Character biographies
• Guardians of the Worlds - The Invasion Day Report - Fan account of a trip to New York the day of the fictional invasion, comparing landmarks and events
• Guardians of the Worlds - Jim Valentino's GOTG Retrospective - Jim Valentino comments on aborted Killraven plans
• Marvel Chronology Project - Killraven Mythos - Character appearance listings