Tag Archive | "Marvelman"

Marvelman taking a while to sort out. Tom Brevoort surprised.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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(From the published Marvelman Family’s Finest #1, July 2010 – variant cover by Dougie Braithwaite, posted on his Facebook. Still with the old, Marvel owned MM logo, nearly one year on, still no movement.) Okay, some latest on the attempts by marvel to get Marvelman back in print and finished. There’s a little background here, and [...]

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Doug Braithwaite’s Marvelman Variant cover

Friday, June 4, 2010

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From the upcoming Marvelman Family’s Finest #1 – variant cover by Dougie Braithwaite, posted on his Facebook. Due in July.

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Gaiman vs McFarlane, the cabaret that just keeps on giving….

Sunday, May 30, 2010

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This tickled me. Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane are in court again over the long standing fight about who created various characters featured in McFarlane’s Spawn comics. It’s a long and winding tale, but essentially Gaiman created characters for McFarlane and was awarded a copyright interest in three of them; Medieval Spawn, Angela and Cogliostro. [...]

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Marvel’s first shot at Marvelman….

Sunday, March 28, 2010

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(Mick Anglo’s variant cover to the Marvelman Classic Primer #1) Press releases this week from Marvel announced their plans to begin reprinting the Mick Anglo Marvelman comics they aquired the rights to in 2009. They’re starting rather unimpressively in June with a prose comic primer; Marvelman Classic Primer #1; “…a commemorative one-shot featuring interviews with [...]

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Marvelman/Captain Marvel mashup

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Wim points us in the direction of Jeremy Eaton’s Flickr, where he’s posted up this fab mashup of Marvelman and Captain Marvel (sorry, I can never really think of the Big Red Cheese as Shazam, he’s always going to be Captain Marvel to me): (Marvelman (c) – ah well, as we know, there hangs a [...]

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So who does own the copyright on Marvelman?

Monday, November 23, 2009

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Pádraig Ó Méalóid, a regular contributor to the blog, has, as most of us who know him can atest, been working for several years on untangling the quite convoluted history of just who exactly has had a legitimate claim to copyright on the Marvelman character, a quest which has grown from an essay to a [...]

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Alan Moore says yes to Miracleman…

Friday, September 4, 2009

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(On the left; old style Marvelman – which Marvel owns. On the right; modern Marvelman/Miracleman, which Marvel are getting closer and closer to owning or at least reprinting.) The story so far: Marvel announced last month that it had secured the rights to reprint Mick Anglo’s Marvelman. Much speculation and gossiping ensued over what exactly [...]

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Marvelman’s back …… (updated)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

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Originally posted 25th July, Updated 26th July… Rich Johnston, over at the Bleeding Cool site has news from San Diego that Marvel has sorted out a deal with Emotiv, the company representing Mick Anglo’s interests in the Marvelman character and will begin republication of Marvelman stories from the 1950s and 1960s. No news yet over [...]

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