AMAZING ADVENTURES #25

Cover shows a light diagonal crease/scratch near the center-left figure and some minor edge wear along the top and right border. Corners appear reasonably sharp with only slight blunting, and there's minor spine stress visible but no major color break ticks noted. The book is protected in a plastic sleeve which limits full assessment; interior and back cover were not examined.

Amazing Adventures #25 (July 1974) is a chapter in Marvel's Killraven serial, the post-apocalyptic War of the Worlds continuation that took over the Amazing Adventures anthology title starting with issue #18. Writer Don McGregor steered the strip's dense, literary captions and its ensemble of Free Men – Killraven, M'Shulla, Old Skull, and Carmilla Frost – through a Martian-occupied 21st century America, work that would later be cited as an unusually ambitious example of 1970s Marvel science fiction. This issue is a mid-run entry in that serial rather than a debut, origin, or death issue, and it carries no recognized first appearance.

The market data reflects a low-key back-issue: the CGC census is thin (27 Universal copies across 30 total graded) and sales activity is sparse outside the top end, where a small cluster of 9.6 and 9.8 copies has traded with some regularity over the past year. Pricing rises sharply only in the last two grade steps, a pattern typical of a non-key Bronze Age comic where general collector interest is modest until a copy reaches near-pristine condition, at which point scarcity of high-grade survivors and completist demand for the Killraven run take over.

This is a book for Killraven and Don McGregor completists, Bronze Age science fiction readers building out the full Amazing Adventures run, and collectors assembling War of the Worlds-adjacent Marvel material, rather than a mainstream key-issue investment. Mid- and low-grade raw copies move slowly and cheaply as reading copies or run-fillers, while the CGC 9.8 tier commands a real premium driven almost entirely by census scarcity at the top of the grade scale.