{"product_id":"2026100008916-secondhand-amazing-adventures-war-of-the-worlds-vol-1-no-27","title":"Amazing Adventures: War of The Worlds Vol. 1, No. 27","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a post-apocalyptic Earth conquered by Martian invaders, humanity's last hope rides on the shoulders of one rebel warrior — Killraven. Amazing Adventures Featuring War of the Worlds transplants H.G. Wells' foundational science fiction premise into a savage future landscape, where the alien tripods have long since won, and the survivors are either slaves or fugitives. This Marvel Comics issue, headlined by the explosive story Day of the Death Breeders!, chronicles Killraven's desperate stand against the alien overlords who now breed humanity like livestock, blending pulse-pounding action with a strikingly dystopian vision that pushes the boundaries of the Bronze Age comic book format.\n\nDrawing on concepts created in Wells' seminal 1898 novel, Marvel's War of the Worlds saga — as serialised in Amazing Adventures — stands as one of the most ambitious science fiction comic runs of the 1970s, written by Don McGregor with bold, kinetic artwork that gives the series its raw, visceral energy. McGregor's scripts are dense with social allegory and literary ambition, transforming a monthly superhero comic into something closer to speculative fiction, complete with themes of resistance, identity, and the cost of survival. For collectors and readers alike, this is a rare artefact of a moment when mainstream comics dared to ask what it truly means to be human — and whether that's worth fighting for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336804638939,"sku":"2026100008916-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/250a5397-17b8-4497-9a10-fa8eefe56509.png?v=1789958061","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008916-secondhand-amazing-adventures-war-of-the-worlds-vol-1-no-27","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}