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Whatever Happened To The Marvelman of Tomorrow?

January 23rd, 2012
Author Graeme McMillan

Teases aside, the fate of Marvelman remains up in the air; Marvel announced that they’d bought the character two and a half years ago, but aside from a couple of reprint projects, they still haven’t done anything with him – especially not what everyone wants the company to do, which is reprint the Alan Moore run and complete the Neil Gaiman run. With Axel Alonso recently promising an update soon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid takes a look at all of Marvel’s public statements to date on the property, and it makes for particularly frustrating reading. Whatever happened to the publishing plan mentioned by Joe Quesada back in 2010…?

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10 Responses to “Whatever Happened To The Marvelman of Tomorrow?”
  1. ihaveyourshit Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    i was certain way before i saw Iron Fist reading marvelman comic in Defenders that Matt Fraction would be writing this comic for marvel. please let that happen with Gabriel Ba on art. though saying Gabriel leads to me to also think Gabriel Hardmen would be just as good a fit. this and Chris Claremont on Harbingers are my comics predictions for the years 2012.

  2. Sam Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Marvelman #1 in october, along with Marvel’s reboot. Mark my words.

  3. Neil Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    Maybe he’ll be the new Phoenix host!

  4. Aaron Poehler Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    I’m sure the sales figures on the non-Moore/Gaiman reprint series they issued indicated what everyone already knew: no one gives a fuck about Marvelman when not written by Moore/Gaiman.

  5. James Van Hise Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    On his website, Neil Gaiman has an FAQ page filled with information, but there’s nothing about Marvelman, not even what happened in the past with his involvement. I have to think that would rank at the top of .his most FAQs, but there’s nothing, not even an explanation for why there’s nothing. Ordinarily Neil will answer emails sent to him, but when I sent him an email a few months ago asking about Marvelman and why there is nothing about it on his FAQ page, I received no reply.

  6. tralfaz Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    is there a definitive collection that starts from the very beginning to the last issue? One that’s affordable of course

  7. Matt Spatola Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    Well logic would tell us that Marvel bought the property to make money. And they know the real money with it is indeed the Moore reprint and finish off Gaiman. And since they haven’t released anything yet seems to mean that either the legal mess behind the property is a lot messier than then they thought and so is taking this extra time. Or they have already been working on it but because of the star creators involved are waiting until a good portion is done before announcing it. They know announcing it and then not being able to deliver would be a PR nightmare.

  8. Scratchie Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Is this surprising? Did anyone think that by buying the rights to the original Marvelman character, that they would somehow magically acquire the legendarily-tangled rights to the Moore/Gaiman run (most of which was published as “Miracleman” anyway)?

  9. kadın azdırıcı damla Says:
    January 24th, 2012 at 3:12 am

    Maybe he’ll be the new Phoenix host!

  10. Molnek Says:
    January 24th, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    Well the whole thing was for a long time no one knew who legally owned the character. Because it was Mick Anglo all along I think people (myself included) figured anything not written by him shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place thus no one could claim rights seeing as essentially Alan Moore and and Neil Gaiman’s runs were technically bootlegs. Add in the fact that Marvelman himself was originally a bootleg and you have to enjoy it all.

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