H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (comics) H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (comics) H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a comic adaptation of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli. The same team earlier created the comic "Scarlet Traces", and several characters from it can be seen in this series, as well as this series reusing the designs of the Martians and their machines. In July 2006, Pendragon Pictures announced in a press release that the comic possessed visual similarities to Pendragon's film "H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds". Pendragon set up a website
Orson Welles 28, 1941 – January 22, 1942. Throughout the shooting of the film Welles was also producing a weekly half-hour radio series, "The Orson Welles Show". Many of the "Ambersons" cast participated in the CBS Radio series, which ran September 15, 1941 – February 2, 1942. At RKO's request, Welles worked on an adaptation of Eric Ambler's spy thriller, "Journey into Fear", co-written with Joseph Cotten. In addition to acting in the film, Welles was the producer. Direction was credited to Norman Foster. Welles later said that they were in such a rush that the director of each scene was determined