The doubt on comic rooter ’ lips since Marvel announced their purchase of Marvelman at San Diego Comic - Con has ultimately been answer : Yes , they will be reprintingAlan Moore‘s classic pre - Watchmen run on the character .
Moore ’s revitalisation of the 1950s Captain Marvel rip - off has long been deliberate a mislay part of comic history ; Moore ’s first deconstruction of the superhero literary genre , Marvelman – rename Miracleman for its American publication and termination , ironically after effectual threats fromMarvel Comics – launched in the pages of British anthology Warrior in 1982 , and offered ideas that Moore would later re - savoir-faire ( and , in the pillowcase of Promethea and some of his later America ’s Best Comics line , refute ) in more celebrated book like Watchmen .
The rights to Moore ’s run are separate between Moore himself and the various artists that worked on the series ; it was unknown whether Moore , who has had a hard relationship with Marvel Comics in the past , would allow the newspaper publisher to reprint his work , but a recent audience with Mania.com seemingly settled the issue :
After being initially inform by Neil ’s attorney , I had to call up about it for a mates of solar day . I decided that while I ’m very happy for this book to get published - because that means money will finally go to Marvelman ’s creator , Mick Anglo , and to his married woman . Mick is very , very erstwhile , and his married woman , I trust , is suffering from Alzheimer ’s . The genuine Marvelman floor is such a grim and ugly one that I would plausibly rather that the work was published without my name on it , and that all of the money went to Mick . The determination about my name was largely based upon my history with Marvel - my desire to really have nothing to do with them , and my increasing desire to have nothing to do with the American comics diligence . I entail , they ’re probably are enough Word out there with my name on them to keep the comic strip industry afloat for a little fleck longer . I left a message to that effect with Neil . I ’ve since heard back from the attorney upon another issue , and he said that he was sure that would be the pillowcase - that Marvel would accede to my request . That look like the way it will be come forth .
Moore also hinted that his successor on the serial publication , Neil Gaiman , would be working with Marvel to complete the story he was unable to fetch up due to the former publisher , Eclipse , going belly-up in the early nineties .
Alan Moore Reflects on Marvelman[Mania ]
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