I'm a big fan of this old Marvel property. It grew out of an odd adaptation of the War of the Worlds and just mutated into a crazed post-apocalyptic adventure tale. From the Wiki page-
"Co-creator Neal Adams' early ideas for Killraven involved
the character being the son of a Doc Savage archetype. This
conception had been reworked by the first issue, a multiple-creator goulash in
which the two originators and co-plotters turned the scripting over to another
writer, and in which artist co-creator Adams penciled only
the first 11 pages and Howard
Chaykin the remaining nine. The second issue was fully written by the
debut's scripter, Gerry Conway, followed in the third by Marv
Wolfman.
After this, the book became the province of writer Don
McGregor for an acclaimed run from #21
(Nov. 1973) to the final issue, #39 (Nov. 1976). Pencillers were Herb Trimpe, Rich
Buckler, Gene Colan, and, most prominently, P.
Craig Russell from issue #27 on.
Two of its characters, Carmilla
Frost and the African
American M'Shulla Scott, shared color comic books' earliest
known dramatic interracial kiss, in issue #31 (July 1975), page nine, final
panel."
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