The Alan Moore And Neil Gaiman $80 Million Marvelman Movie That Never Was

never heard of this guy

I thought it was marvel man? I'm confused

Im with teabag never heard of him

@ superdog

i could be wrong, but i believe miracle man and marvel man are the same guy. they were around a long time ago, and then disappeared, until now. marvel just recently bought the rights to the character, and are doing new comics with him. its kind of a big deal to die hard comics fans, because he's been gone for so long. anybody know details, because thats all i got, lol.

Alright you got me. You're right and I'm wrong. You are the king and i suck.lol

He's kind of a shazam character. Him and his plucky side kick would have space age influenced superhero adventures against the likes of Young Nastyman. Years after the original golden age comic dropped out of existence, Alan Moore re-envisioned the character in his first true superhero deconstruction. It was kind of an early vision of the more experimental Supreme reboot he penned. Gaiman followed Moore's story with one of his own, but before he finished his 3 part saga the comic company went under, since then, it's been in legal hell. The book was groundbreaking as it is unknown.

The reason no one has heard of it is because the rights have been in limbo since the mid 90's. It's a very convoluted legal issue that was supposedly just solved by Marvel waving it's 10 million dollar D!@# around the room. Until now, no reprints have been issued in almost 25 years.

The graphic novels run for over 200 bucks although there are digital pirate copies floating around and I suggest any fan of Moore's or Gaiman's work check them out. They're really beautiful frightening stories. Marvel has announced the reissue of the golden era stories, but i assume that the legal rights issues are still keeping them from announcing the reprint of the Moore/Gaiman stories. Here's hoping they do.

Also - If Marvel gets Bendis to write the movie instead of Gaiman, I'll regurg bile until i drown in it. I love his writing, but this story is NOT his arena.

This is actually supposed to be one of the greatest series out there. The third Miracleman graphic novel is number ten on Wizard Magazine's 100 Greatest Graphic Novels list. It's just the series never got reprinted because of all the lawsuits, and not many people could read them. The third one goes for at least $500 now. I bought a small graphic novel called Miracleman: Apocrypha for $50 and the parts that were written by Gaiman were incredible. I can't wait to get my hands on all the other originals

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Unless, Marvel is talking about making a movie based on their lame Marvelman character... I think it was the weird alternate dimension son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey

supermike is an asshole. apparently hes beginning to confuse me and teabag as well

thanks for the info guys. i really had never heard of him. but he sounds cool enough to have a good movie

I'm hoping Marvel reprints Moore and Gaiman's runs on Marvelman. This character has a boat load of controversy behind him. At one time Todd McFarlane even tried claiming rights to this superhero.