Amazing Adventures (1970 2nd Series) UK Edition comic books
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Issue #14UK
$5.60
View scan- Cover detached. Staple rust. Water damage.
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 6p cover price. Cover pencils by John Buscema, inks by John Verpoorten. Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Jim Mooney. "The Vampire Machine," script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Tom Sutton, inks by Jim Mooney; The Beast has stumbled into the middle of a Stark International munitions test, prompting Iron Man to try to pull the Beast out of danger; The Beast is surprised to find that Iron Man is alive and well, and when they are out of dangers way the two are confronted by the Stark security on the scene; One trigger happy guard instantly shoots at the Beast before Iron Man can order them to stand down; The shot isn't bad due to Beast's healing, and the two heroes make peace; When Iron Man asks if this is helped what's troubled him, the Beast tells Iron Man that it's not even close before hopping away; When the same guard tries to shoot the Beast as he leaves, Iron Man crushes his gun and fires the man on the spot; Beast battles Quasimodo the living computer. 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #28UK
$2.50
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 8p cover price. Cover by Craig Russell. "The Death Merchant!", script by Don McGregor, art by Craig Russell; April 2019; Meig's Airfield, Chicago. M'Shulla fishes through the ice of Lake Michigan; He gets a bite, but the fish is a giant mutant salmon, and it bites him; Volcana Ash blasts it; M'Shulla goes to Carmilla Frost to have his wound dressed; She tells him that Grok is dying from internal bleeding; Meanwhile, Ash tells Killraven about her past; She and her sister, Meloney (or Melonie), were separated when the Martians attacked; Ash became a test subject in a laboratory, where radiation treatments gave her the power to control heat; She used that power to escape; Meloney became a breeder, one of thousands of Eves producing children for the Martians. Killraven tells her, "The Martians have acquired a taste for Earthlings!"; In Death-Birth, Eve 3,031 and Adam 3,031 face giving up their soon-to-be-born child to Atalon the Fear Master. Reprint back-up story: "Escape From Nowhere!" with art by Tony DiPreta. 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #35UK
$2.50
$2.50
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
$2.50
$2.50
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 #38UK
$2.50
UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Cover pencils by Keith Pollard (signed) and Marie Severin (alterations), inks by Keith Pollard and Marie Severin (alterations). "Death's Dark Dreamer!", script by Keith Giffen (Co-Plot) and Bill Mantlo (Co-Plot, Script), pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Al Milgrom; While traveling through the city of Miami on his own, Killraven is drawn into a giant dome which turns out to be the old Miami Museum of Cultural Development; He is lured there by an astronaut who, after a space mission to Mars in the year 1999, found himself bombarded with strange radiation and being put into a coma-like state; Stored in the museum, the dreaming astronaut sought to bring people to the museum in order to rouse him from his long slumber; In order to do so, he uses the building's holographic and virtual reality devices to create constructs from Earth's heroic age, and many of its now deceased heroes, and forcing Killraven to battle them; Killraven is able to battle off and defeat the collection of heroes which have been perverted into almost demonic-looking beings. Brief appearances by Iron Man, Man-Thing, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Daredevil. 36 pgs, full color.
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Issue #39UK
$2.50
$2.50
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.
