The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Can science play with nature? Two scientists Bensington and Redwood are investigating the growth process of living beings. Their result is a substance that accelerates and speeds up the growth process. The new invention is tested on an experimental chicken farm that grows to gigantic proportions. Soon the invention is out of control, which leads to terrorization of the area by huge rats, wasps and worms... One of the lesser-known Herbert George Wells novels. Adaptation of the book is the film The Food of the Gods, produced by American International Pictures in 1976, directed by Bert I. Gordon. In 1989, another movie Gnaw: Food of the Gods, part 2 loosely related to the novel. The food of the gods was first adapted in comics in January 1961 by Classics Illustrated 160 with a cover by Gerald McCann and illustrations by Tony Tallarico.