Miracleman

, originally Marvelman in the UK, but named as such for US trademark purposes in American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Initially intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American character Captain Marvel, the series ran until 1963. He was revived in 1982 in a dark, post-modern deconstructionist series by writer Alan Moore, with later contributions by Neil Gaiman.The character is notorious for the long, complex and expensive legal battle over various creative rights attached to it. Many have heard of, and have discussed, Miracleman; though I daresay few have actually read the series (I'm referring to the one I'm posting here) in its entirety. Over-all, an excellent and enduring deconstruction of the idea of the superhero. One of the finest comics stories ever written, and one that changed the comics industry, creating a paradigm for all future comic book writers to follow.

Descripción de la editorial: El tomo en que la etapa clásica de Miracleman llega a su majestuoso final. Dioses y monstruos caminan sobre la Tierra, mientras los alienígenas cuya tecnología dio lugar a Miracleman tratan de eliminar a los supervivientes del Proyecto Zarathustra.

Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Age of Miracles begins! Two years have passed since the decimation of London. Miracleman presides over mankind's Golden Age from atop Olympus. Pilgrims climb its miles-high peak to petition their new god. Each carries hopes that are pure. The motives they conceal, however. Miracleman explores Infraspace in the opening chapter of "Retrieval," but just what, or who, is he looking for? Including material originally presented in Miracleman (1985) #17, plus bonus content.

When Eclipse gathered together some of the top talents in the comics industry to work on their own versions of Miracleman, whom Alan Moore so masterfully resurrected, this title somehow seemed appropriate. In Apocrypha, eleven creative teams were given a shot at telling a story that featured what they thought would be the perfect Miracleman scenario. The list of creators included Alex Ross (Marvels) Neil Gaiman (Sandman) Norm Breyfogle (Prime) Stefan Petrucha (The X-Files), and many more. These stories were printed in this three-issue anthology series. A framing story by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham shows Miracleman-a man become like God-reading them as comic books in order to discover the nature of human aspiration.

Descripción de la editorial: ¡Kimota! Al pronunciar una palabra mágica, una leyenda largo tiempo olvidada vive de nuevo. El periodista Michael Moran siempre supo que estaba destinado a la grandeza. Ahora, una serie de acontecimientos inesperados le lleva a reclamar su destino como Miracleman. El cómic que encabezó una revolución literaria comienza aquí, con "El sueño de volar". Después de cerca de dos décadas desaparecido, Miracleman descubre sus verdaderos orígenes y su conexión con el llamado Proyecto Zarathustra, mientras su alter ego, Michael Moran, debe conciliar su vida como un simple humano con la existencia de un dios.

1991,1992 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Continuing Series
Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American character Captain Marvel, the series ran until 1963. He was revived in 1982 in a dark, post-modern deconstructionist series by writer Alan Moore, with later contributions by Neil Gaiman.

Alan Moore’s Miracleman predated Watchmen and Dark Knight as the first of the grim, ultra-realistic strips that changed super-hero comics forever. But whatever happened to Miracleman? For the first time, this trade paperback tells all the behind-the-scenes secrets, from the character’s start as the British strip Marvelman, to the legal and creative hurdles during its 24-issue run at Eclipse Comics, and why you never saw the final Neil Gaiman-scripted issue! Sporting a Mark Buckingham cover and an introduction and back cover by Alex Ross, this book features in-depth interviews with Alan Moore, John Totleben, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Barry Windsor-Smith, Beau Smith, Cat Yronwode, Rick Veitch, and others! Plus there’s an amazing assortment of unpublished art, uninked pencils, sketches, and concept drawings (including unseen art from the never-published issue #25) by Totleben, Windsor-Smith, Buckingham, Mike Deodato, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, and more! Special Bonus: a never-published 8-page Moore/Totleben story, "Lux Brevis", and an unused Moore script!