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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING MARTIAN #1 COMIC BOOK.
RARE and OUT OF PRINT FIRST COLLECTORS ITEM.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE's Detective Returns in all new adventures! Facing off against the Martians of HG WELLS' WAR OF THE WORLDS. And what does JACK THE RIPPER have to do with all of this?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant, eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times in books, plays, movies, television, and comic books.
Sherlock Holmes and Martians! According to the history laid down by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he and Doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, so they would have likely been in London during the invasion of 1900. This is not even the first time the great detective has gone up against the Martian foe, (Manly and Wade Wellman wrote a story in 1969) but it's the only time such a story has been immortalised in illustrated form.
Set in May 1908, after the Martian invasion as told by H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Missing Martian is a story about the theft of a Martian Fighting Machine from that invasion, and the attempts of Sherlock Holmes to track it down. The depictions of the aliens are quite true to the Wells vision.
England has recovered from the Martian attack and at the British Museum the board of trustees are arriving for a preview of a major new exhibition about the invasion. But something has gone terribly wrong. A glass display case containing a seemingly dead Martian has been smashed open. Mysterious tracks move away from the case, and the terrified guard will only say that the thing inside went for a walk. Naturally the police are baffled, so Watson is dispatched to the Sussex Downs where Holmes is engaged in mysterious and secret experiments. Speeding back to London with Watson, Holmes is soon on the trail of the missing Martian, but did it really wake from the dead, or are other forces at work?
Author Doug Murray is clearly having great fun messing with two icons of British literature, but he keeps his feet firmly on the ground and delivers a well-paced story that never skimps on the action, but equally takes time out to be cleverly introspective with the character of Holmes.
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Published in 1990 by Eternity Comics.