Amazing Adventures (1970 series) #19

Outside of Grand Central station, Killraven faces a trio of Sirens; they attempt to take him under their mental control but he is immune to their powers. But their distraction leads to a band of mutants emerging from the train station. Killraven fights them all then tells the women to run and hide as he intends to punish the Martians and their human servants for what they have done to Earth. Killraven is joined by two members of his band of Freemen, Hawk and M’Shulla, in fighting the mutants. Then a Martian tripod appears among them firing at them. They escape to the abandoned church where they recover their horses and ride off. A giant mutated dragon suddenly appears before them; Killraven sends it into a rage by hitting it with silver throwing stars. He causes it to chase him between the Tripod’s legs, toppling the machine to its destruction….

At the docks, their compatriot Arrow informs them that a ferry transporting human slaves has just docked. So Killraven leads his team to capture the ship, forcing the captain to head for Staten Island, Killraven’s base. But a Martian tripod rises from the river, pursuing and firing on the ferry. Killraven gives the order to reverse engines and the ferry rams the tripod, destroying it. With the situation having quieted down, Killraven explains the world’s recent history and the nature of the enemy….

At a nearby Martian base in New Jersey, traitor Professor Kempleton reports to his Martian Master that Killraven’s rebel gang has destroyed two drone tripods and captured a shipment of slaves. The Master orders a scout flyer sent out to assess the situation. An Air Force scout plane is sent out and it discovers the ferry burning on the Staten Island shore. The scout is ordered to return to base and the Siren has already been summoned….

Killraven and his followers come out of hiding but the men quickly fall into trances, courtesy of Skarlet, Queen of the Sirens. Killraven is immune to her charms but she has brought a robot to entangle the hero in its metal tentacles. And so Killraven is carried off to Madison Square Garden to fight in a gladiator game for the amusement of a Martian Master. Killraven, still held by the robot will battle Slasher, a prosthetic experiment, ten feet tall with a metal arm. But the hero breaks free from the robot and, fighting for his freedom, brutally clobbers the Slasher. Killraven discovers M’Shulla and others prisoner so he frees them, smashing an automated ray gun with a silver star. They rejoin the Freemen on the rooftop where Killraven explains to them all how Earth was invaded and conquered by Martians: “They began—but man will end—the War of the Worlds!”