Earlier this month, Marvel debuted a collection of variant covers in celebration of Miracleman’s fortieth anniversary in September. Unsurprisingly, that was solely the start of the Miracleman fortieth anniversary plans. In the present day the writer introduced a particular Miracleman #0 one-shot this October.
Sporting a canopy drawn by Alan Davis, the Miracleman fortieth anniversary one-shot will function new tales by famous person creators Jason Aaron and Mike Carey, legendary author/artist Ty Templeton, acclaimed artist Ryan Stegman, and extra! Furthermore, in response to the press launch the giant-sized one-shot will function a narrative by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham that serves as a prelude to their upcoming new chapter of Miracleman.
For these unfamiliar, Miracleman is the American model of Marvelman, a British character created by Mick Anglo within the ’50s as a Captain Marvel alternative after the favored Fawcett Comics collection was discontinued. Saying the magic phrase ‘Kimota’ remodeled odd Michael Moran into Marvelman, who was finally joined by an prolonged Marvelman Household, together with Child Marvelman and Younger Marvelman. The character was revived within the ’80s within the pages of Warrior by Alan Moore and Garry Leach, and the tales finally made their strategy to the U.S. through Eclipse Comics, with the title character rechristened Miracleman to keep away from authorized problems with Marvel. Following six problems with reprints of the Warrior tales, Moore wrote ten extra problems with the collection for Eclipse with artists together with Steve Bissette & John Totleben, and Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham continued the collection following Moore & co.’s departure. Miracleman ran for a complete of 24 points earlier than Eclipse folded.
In 2009, Marvel introduced that they had secured the rights to the character from Anglo, and commenced reprinting the Eclipse Comics collection in 2014. Marvel printed new editions of twenty-one of the previously-published points, together with an annual that includes a ‘misplaced’ story by Grant Morrison illustrated by Joe Quesada, in addition to a brand new story by Peter Milligan and Michael Allred. Past that, there’s been no new standalone Miracleman materials, apart from one web page by Gaiman and Buckingham in 2019’s Marvel Comics #1000 anniversary one-shot.
The latest Timeless #1 one-shot from late final yr was not solely the the primary tease of recent Miracleman materials from Marvel Comics in years however that the character could be formally be integrated into the Marvel Universe. The aforementioned prelude by Gaiman and Buckingham appears to be a secure indication that the conclusion their long-awaited run a long time within the making is lastly on its means.
Keep tuned later this week for extra Miracleman bulletins!
