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No Miracleman At The End Of Age Of Ultron – Thursday Trending Topics

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Mark Seifert

Of course, no we’ll wonder… anywhere else? But for now there’s this: When we originally said that Age Of Ultron #10 would see a non-Marvel character join the publisher, everyone guessed it was Marvelman. Most-Read Comic Stories Thursday: Is This …

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Marvel Trademarks Kimota!

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Rich Johnston

They already have the Marvelman trademark. Well, possibly aware of how DC published “Shazam!” all those years starring a Captain Marvel, Marvel have now trademarked Marvelman’s copy-cat cry “Kimota!” for use in; Comic books; magazines featuring printed stories in illustrated …

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Is Marvelman Closer Than We Think?

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Three things have happened very recently. One is that Neil Gaiman’s opposition to Todd McFarlane’s trademark registration for Miracleman was withdrawn. Because Todd McFarlane had abandoned his claim on Miracleman. Word Mark MIRACLEMAN Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 016. US …

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An Incredibly Self-Serving Speculator’s Corner

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  In the early nineties, I self published a number of comics with Mike Meyer. Seven issues of a comic called Dirtbag, six issues of a comic called X-Flies. They included a strip written by one Brendon Connelly, a cover …

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Tuesday Runaround – The Secrets Of Marvelman And Miracleman

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on. They say I am a work …

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Gaiman And McFarlane Settle Over Spawn And Angela

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Sorry for that folks. Bleeding Cool went down for around twelve hours – we’re not sure what it was. A DDOS attack from the Chinese because we ran a positive story about Taiwanese comics? Warner Bros exercising their mighty power …

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Mick Anglo, Creator Of Marvelman, Passes

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Mick Anglo died last week, aged 96, Bleeding Cool has confirmed. Novelist and comic book creator in the forties, fifties and sixties, it was his recreation of Captain Marvel as Marvelman for L Miller And Son for which he will …

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And Finally… Apathy In The UK

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Rich Johnston

You know there’s been a lot of fuss in the news (and especially the American news it seems) about riots in England. Truth is, it hasn’t affected 99% of people. Most cities have seen no trouble at all. And even …

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Hot Comics – The Hundred Dollar Club (July 2011)

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Here’s a look at comic books published in the last thirty years that, without variants, signatures or slabbing, actually sell copies for over a hundred dollars in the current climate… and how the values have been changing. We take the …

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Swipe File: Miracleman Vs Being Human (SPOILER)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Here lie spoilers. Massive spoilers. Spoilers not only for the ending of the penultimate episode of Being Human Series 3, but also, I suppose for Marvelman/Miracleman if you’ve never read it. So going forward in this Swipe FIle, I’m going …

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Hasbro To Debut Marvelman Figure At San Diego

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Last year, Joe Quesada announced that Marvel had bought the rights to the Marvelman character from Mick Anglo. Last month we discovered Marvel were publishing a number of classic Marvelman strips from the fifties and sixties. And now it seems …

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Marvelman’s Back… And It’s A History Textbook

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Kimota! Um, yes, Marvelman is back in June in the form of an essay by John Rhett Thomas published by Marvel as a Marvelman Classic Primer. Okay, okay, there’s also interviews with Neil Gaiman, Mick Anglo and the like ( …

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SPOILERS: That’s One Dead Avenger – Siege #2

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Okay that’s the spoiler space over. Now we knew there was a dead Avenger coming. The solicitations have been full of it, dire warnings about an upcoming Avenger death. Something called Fallen, it’s name ready …

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Moving Mouse – Is Marvel On The Streets?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Rich Johnston

New York is the home of the American comics industry. And the Marvel Universe from its inception was based in and around New York proper, with Spider-Man swinging down Broadway and the Fantastic Four engaged in fisticuffs across Times Square. …

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Avatar Plug Of The Week – Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows’ Neonomicon

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Rich Johnston

He is the greatest comic book writer that has ever lived. Watchmen, Swamp Thing, 1963, V For Vendetta, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Big Numbers, Lost Girls, Supreme, Mirror Of Love, Marvelman, The BoJeffries Saga, Halo Jones, Skizz, DR And Quinch, …

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Lying In The Gutters – 11th January

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Well that’s what I thought when I first found out the news. A few hours before DC announced it.I was all ready to ask DC Comics about it when they got in the office… then the Source ran the story …

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So What Is Brian Bendis And Bryan Hitch’s New Comic Project?

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Bryan Hitch, recent new dad, was talking on Twitter on being a bit tired and down. Brian Bendis offered some words of support, from which the following exchange emerged. HITCH: don’t worry, it wasn’t your stuff that was killing me! …

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That Marvelman Copyright Thing Again. Again. Again.

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Comics archaeologist Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been at it again. We previously reported that Padraig claimed to have found a copyright line in a Young Marvelman strip that definitely laid the much-disputed ownership of Marvelman at the door of Mick …

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