Amazing Adventures (1970 2nd Series) UK Edition comic books
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Issue #26UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 7p cover price. Cover by Jim Starlin. "The Death Breeders," script by Don McGregor, pencils by Craig Russell, inks by Jack Abel; March 2019; Killraven and his band of freemen are crossing Lake Michigan on an ice catamaran; Two huge sea lampreys break through the ice and attack; One plants its sucker on Grok's back; Carmilla Frost tries to rescue him; The other lamprey knocks M'Shulla's crossbow out of his hands before he can fire; Hawk pulls Frost away from her useless attack, but she slugs him; Killraven kills the other lamprey with a harpoon gun, then swings above the first one and hits it with a silver star so that Grok won't also be killed; As it stands, Grok barely survived; In Chicago, the Martians have replaced the Loop with Central Command, which is only the hub of Death-Birth, a research center and slave pen; In Indianapolis, the High Overlord interrogates Skar about his encounter with Killraven (in issue #25); Skar gladly accepts a mission to track down Killraven. Reprint back-up story: "The Strangers" with art by Herb Familton. The letters page contains Marvel Value Stamp series A #22 (Man-Thing). 36 pgs, full color. $0.25.
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Issue #32UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Cover by Craig Russell. "Only the Computer Shows Me Any Respect!", script by Don McGregor, pencils by Craig Russell, inks by Dan Green; June 2019, Nashville Tennessee: Killraven and his Freemen have arrived before the Octotympanum-Viewscope building; In the 1990's it was a device which could make your own fantasies a reality; There they find that the device still works and Old Skull particularly enjoys the lucid creations and cute creatures the device can create for them; As the tired Freemen rest, they check on Grok who is still on death's door, and Hawk tells of the rift between him and his father in the days before the Martian invasion caused by his father's addiction to the Octotympanum-Viewscope simulations of Sherlock Holmes adventures; Realizing that Old Skull has once more ventured into the device, Killraven goes after him to find that the device had created a menacing dragon to attack the both of them. 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #33UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Cover pencils by John Romita, inks by Craig Russell. "Sing Out Loudly... Death!", script by Bill Mantlo, pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by D. Bruce Berry; when they realize there are other's tracks in the snow; Returning to the cave they have holed up in, Killraven goes exploring and soon finds himself captured by a band of black men calling themselves the Brothers; Killraven is taken to their leader the Head Man, who tells Killraven about the persecution of his African-American ancestors and how during the Martian invasion, the majority of blacks fled the cities to seek refuge underground and formed their "Brother" nation; Raised on a culture of hatred of those with white skin, Head Man sentences Killraven to be fed to a giant mutant creature which dwells in the cave water. The letters page contains Marvel Value Stamp series A #52 (Quicksilver by John Buscema/Tom Palmer). 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #34UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Killraven stars in "A Death in the Family." Script by Don McGregor, art and cover by Craig Russell. The letters page contains Marvel Value Stamp series B # 10 (the Human Torch).
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Issue #35UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Cover by Craig Russell. "The 24-Hour Man," script by Don McGregor, pencils by Craig Russell (layouts) and Keith Giffen (finished art), inks by Jack Abel; Atlanta, Georgia October 2019: Killraven and his Freemen cross paths with a woman who had been impregnated by a creature she has called G'Rath, a Martian mutate which can impregnate human females; This gets them caught up in a battle with the creature, and its off-spring, Emmanuel; Dubbed the 24-Hour Man because his 24 hour life span, Emmanuel is instantly drawn to Carmilla and kidnaps her to bring her to be G'Rath's next mate, before his time runs out; However, Killraven, M'Shulla and Old Skull work together to stop this from happening, Killraven killing G'Rath, and Emmanuel expiring after his 24-hour lifespan has ended. 36 pgs, full color. $0.25.
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Issue #36UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9p cover price. Cover by Craig Russell. "Red Dust Legacy," script by Don McGregor, pencils by Craig Russell (layouts) and Sonny Trinidad (finished art), inks by Sonny Trinidad; Being given visions of life on Mars, and how the Martian Masters reproduce (asexually), Killraven leads his Freemen to an incubation center for recently spawned Martian children; Meanwhile, learning of Skar's failure and destruction at the hands of Killraven, the High Overlord sends Killraven's own brother Deathraven to destroy his foe once and for all; Arriving at the incubation base, Killraven and the others come at a moral cross-roads over if they should kill the infantile Martians; Killraven wants them dead because they are Martians, however Carmilla believes that they should have a chance to choose between being peaceful beings or invaders like the other Martians. 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #39UK
$2.65
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Final issue of the series. Cover by Craig Russell. "Mourning Prey," script by Don McGregor, art by Craig Russell; Okefenokee Swamp, Florida, January 2020: Killraven and his Freemen have been traveling through the Okefenokee Swamp; When K.R. accidentally kills the cocooned children of a butterfly/human hybrid named Mourning Prey, an altercation occurs between Prey and the Freemen; During the conflict the group splits up; Eventually, K.R. and M'Shulla regroup; They find the others in the company of Ms. Prey, with Old Skull informing her that the death of her children was an accident; With the misunderstanding sorted out, Killraven and his band make peace with the being, and she flies away with the "fliers" that did hatch. 36 pgs, full color.
