Sorry, Tom, the Sequel Has Already Been Written

After I saw the 1950s version of War of the Worlds, I thought it would be great fodder for a sequel. You know, they fight off the weird aliens, reverse engineer their ships and take the battle back to Mars (maybe cough on them or something). Well, I was late. Ninety years late.
In 1897, Garrett P. Serviss penned a sequel where (to quote CG Publishing): "wove a totally distinct and astonishing tale of humans invading Mars."
This site has scans of all of the pages from the original serialization.

I still wish there were a 1950s update.

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