That makes sense. Thanks for the info.
It’s a good demonstration that Moore’s distaste for putting up with the big publishing houses takes a backseat to his belief in creative ownership. Contrary to popular belief, he isn’t a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-establishment crank, and maybe some of his more casual readers will have a chance to realize that now.
this comic is my white whale.
I revere it. I refuse to read scans of it. I cannot wait to read it eventually. Hopefully Marvel’s deal includes the Gaiman/Moore stuff, so we can finally end this fiasco.
haha white whale.
thx for the new info guys. This is amazing as shit. Miracleman lives on!
Maybe Marvel will allow it to revert to the original title, since they were the ones who objected to it in the first place.
Good news! I was not expecting Marvel to announce something like that at SDCC since last year most of their major announcements at that con were regarding movies and cartoons due to the big media event SDCC has become.
Anxious to learn more.
You’re kind of talking about different things…
Marvelman by Anglo was a UK character … “similar” to Captain Marvel. That character + name is now owned by Marvel and can be republished cleanly provided DC doesn’t newly object to Marvelman. Especially in light of a Captain Marvel (Shazam) movie coming out soon.
Miracleman is the Moore/Gaiman era of the character. That’s much more tricky, on top of the possible issues with DC.
A lot of the people supposedly just want Mick Anglo (94 years old) to get paid some money before he dies. But the old Marvelman Family (Shazam Family?) stuff may not be extremely interesting.
Gaiman supposedly has a good relationship with Marvel (witness Marvels and Miracles, Eternals).
Moore supposedly has washed his hands of it, but would like to see Anglo get paid. Plus I believe he gave his rights to Gaiman and Buckingham.
Dez Skinn (Big Ben, IIRC) said he hasn’t heard from anyone yet.
Alan Davis is under exclusive contract with Marvel and probably has a great relationship with Marvel. But he probably gave his rights to Leach.
Haven’t heard anything about Leach’s involvement (warpsmiths, Davids’ rights) with this yet.
Buckingham was at the announcement but said he was as surprised as anyone.
McFarlane… ?!? I don’t think he actually owns anything.
I don’t know about any of the other people. Most seem to have been surprised by the news. I’ll hope this happens. :tup:
Gaiman at one point said that during the Angela McFarlane/Gaiman lawsuit that it turned out that all McFarlane had gained from purchasing pieces of Eclipse was an expired copyright notification or too. So hopefully McFarlane sells out cheaply in order for this project to go forward… or just admits failure. 
edit: fixed big ben’s name
When they reprint the Moore/Gaiman stuff, couldn’t they just get Todd Klein or someone to change every “Miracleman” to “Marvelman?”
Absolutely - and in some cases it was lettered originally as Marvelman.
That’s really the easiest part of this whole debacle.
On a tangential note, MacFarlane is hilarious. I remember him doing some interview back around the time the Spawn movie was out, accusing DC and Marvel of not wanting to “crawl off the corporate t-shirt.” He was probably sitting on a giant pile of plastic toys and money at the time.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about some behind-the-scenes stuff:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/08/10/marvelman-the-other-bid/
as soon as it’s re-released in trade, I’m reading it.
I have resisted the temptation to download it up until this point.
if somehow, McFarlane or some other fuckdouche keeps the Moore/Gaiman run from being reprinted, I am gonna torrent it. Hell, I might even print it, and bind it.
When the dust has settled, the odds of the inevitable Miracleman movie flopping miserably are in the realm of 100%.
well, it will be a movie based on Moore’s work.
I don’t think any movie based on Moore’s work has actually been worth a fuck yet.
I wonder if anyone’s actually cared to ask Alan Moore if he would write a movie yet. Besides Malcolm McLaren, that is.
His contempt for Hollywood’s modern output is well known, but he’s also not one to turn down an intriguing challenge.