Killraven

Killraven is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Jonathan Raven was a male human born on a version of Earth in the Multiverse. He was noted to had been born in the year 2000 when his world was invaded by the Martians. (Amazing Adventures v2 #18)

The Freemen made their way to Florida, and Killraven discovered his ability to project his consciousness into Martian minds. At Cape Canaveral, Jonathan was reunited with his brother, whom the Martians had transformed into the living psychotronic weapon Deathraven. His purpose: to destroy his brother and the Freemen. Using his psionic mind-control ability for the first time, Killraven took possession of a Martian commander's body and killed Deathraven. Following his success, Jonathan gained conscious access to the storehouse of information implanted years before by Whitman. (Marvel Graphic Novel v1 #7)

Notes

• Killraven was created by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Gerry Conway where he made his first appearance in Amazing Adventures v2 #18 (May, 1973).
• As noted by comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that: "It was writer Don McGregor who transformed the Killraven saga ... into a classic. Of all of Marvel's writers, McGregor has the most romantic view of heroism. Killraven and his warrior band were also a community of friends and lovers motivated by a poetic vision of freedom and of humanity's potential greatness. McGregor's finest artistic collaborator on the series was P. Craig Russell, whose sensitive, elaborate artwork, evocative of Art Nouveau illustration, gave the landscape of Killraven's America a nostalgic, pastoral feel, and the Martian architecture the look of futuristic castles."
• In Comic Book Urban Legends, it was detailed that writers Grant Morrison and Mark Millar once considered tying Killraven's future to [[Marvel 2099], "Our idea was that the Killraven stories had actually happened, but Earth somehow got itself back together. It's now one hundred years later, and the Martians are attacking again, meaning that all the superheroes were going to have to deal with them". Galactus then arrives, and devours Mars along with the Martians."
• In Comics Interview, artist P. Craig Russell described the characters abilities, "Killraven has a sort of extrasensory ability to counterbalance his gladiatorial skills. He is very much the barbarian type, yet at the same time he has this seed planted in his brain that is the history of the human race — a racial memory of everything that has been obliterated by the Martians. It's almost a magical ability.... It was what removed him from being just another sword-wielding gladiator type."

Appearances

• Amazing Adventures v2: (1973)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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