Miracleman

Libraries: Miniature libraries are popping up all over the US and comics are coming along for the wonderful ride. Creators: Mick Anglo, creator of Marvelman (a.k.a. Miracleman), has passed away at the age of 96. Gaming: Gotham City Impostors now has an official release date on Xbox Live, PSN and PC: January 10, 2012...

Design: Tauntr imagines a line of Converse Chuck Taylor Allstars sporting The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Dexter designs. Digital: Graphicly has acquired the Double Feature comics application for iOS. Creators: Artist Susie Cagle, along with other Occupy Oakland activists, journalists and legal observers, was arrested and jailed yesterday on the grounds of unlawful assembly...

Marvel Comics' own tribute to Marvelman hits stores this week in the form of "Marvelman Family's Finest" #1, the first volume in a series of vintage pre-Alan Moore/Neil Gaiman reprints. Legal challenges and ownership questions have kept the hero out of new books for quite some time, but no one has stood in the way of fan art...

In the wake of Marvel Comics' acquisition of Marvelman (better known as Miracleman to American readers), the greater fan discussion has been principally rooted in issues such as the legal and commercial impact the character could have on comics' current landscape...

While a lot of announcements trickling forth from San Diego raised my eyebrow, only one really had the juice to elicit a "Twilight"-esque squeal of glee, like an actor off-camera had playfully poked at my doughy white tummy: the long-overdue return of "Miracleman...

Marvel's got a new hero in town, and he's a real company man. At the publisher's "Cup 'O Joe" panel today, it was revealed that Mick Anglo's 1954 creation Marvelman (a United Kingdom creation printed as "Miracleman" in the United States) has been acquired by the company after years of legal limbo and Marvel is ready to welcome the magic hero into their main universe... Read Mor