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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 24, 2009 21:56:11 GMT
Joe Q confirmed at his panel that Marvel have now acquired the rights to Marvelman (Miracleman).
Finally we should get to see some affordable reprints of the material.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 24, 2009 22:12:50 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2009 9:11:02 GMT
Good. At last I'll be able to read it.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 25, 2009 13:38:49 GMT
Aha. Well apparently Marvel own the rights to the character / the 50s/60s stories, but not YET the Moore/Gaiman run.
However Gaiman is up for having it reprinted by Marvel, and I think he has Moore's rights too
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Post by Jaymz on Jul 26, 2009 16:20:32 GMT
One current possibility doing the rounds is that they might not be able to reprint the Moore/Gaiman stuff, but can use the scripts and have the series redrawn.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2009 21:02:53 GMT
Balls!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 26, 2009 21:21:31 GMT
Now that I find hard to believe!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 27, 2009 9:47:54 GMT
I hope not, nobody is going to match Totleben's work in the second to last part of Olympus. That being said if they let someone redraw the Chuck Austen drawn issues I wouldn't be too upset.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2009 19:40:54 GMT
I have **** all interest if it's just redrawn stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by jameso on Jul 27, 2009 19:53:13 GMT
Joe Q confirmed at his panel that Marvel have now acquired the rights to Marvelman (Miracleman).
Finally we should get to see some affordable reprints of the material.>>>
Cheaper than the back issues, but in all seriousness trades are getting really, really expensive. I don't know if affordable is the right word.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 27, 2009 20:14:40 GMT
Given that collections of Moore's tenure on MM go for three digits a book I'll say they would be affordable!
Andy
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Post by jameso on Jul 27, 2009 20:22:47 GMT
That's how they are going to trick you into paying $29.99 for five issues or something!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 27, 2009 20:27:39 GMT
Oh I have no doubt I will pay that.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Jul 27, 2009 20:30:08 GMT
SPECIAL DELUXE GOLD HARDCOVER
With CHROMIUM
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2009 20:43:53 GMT
I predict the first release will be in the $100 Omnibus format. They know people will pay it.
-Ralph
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Post by jameso on Jul 27, 2009 21:01:30 GMT
Any Omnibus version might end being the best value for money one though... bound to be some ridiculously small, but expensive, version first.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 23, 2010 15:28:06 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 23, 2010 19:15:41 GMT
I will no doubt give it a whirl.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 28, 2010 23:24:23 GMT
Avoid the Marvelman's Finest pish. Get this - some facts on the character and all the shiny new covers from the Marvelman's Finest mini.
Now bring on the Moore/Leach/Davis stuff!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2010 8:42:56 GMT
I lost interest in reading this after the reprint crap comic.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 14, 2012 18:43:38 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2012 20:09:20 GMT
I've long since lost interest, to be honest. Some things can only be dragged out so long, alas.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 14, 2012 20:32:10 GMT
Still eagerly awaiting collections of the Moore era storylines.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2012 20:36:12 GMT
I did, about 4 years ago. I've moved on!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 17, 2012 18:23:21 GMT
It is one of those thing where when they eventually do them I will have a look then and decide then if I am tempted by them. The long, long legal shenanigans have sapped my patience a bit with the whole thing though.
Karl
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Post by Marc Graham on Sept 18, 2012 21:01:00 GMT
The irony in this is that although Marvelman was a blatant rip of Captain Marvel - that was never the legal issue (even though the original Captain Marvel suffered at the hands of lawyers when compared to Superman!)
The irony that Marvel snapped up the Captain Marvel name when Fawcett's mark expired - so when DC revived the original there was a character in each company with the same name (although Marvel had the mark, so could use the name as a title).
Add your copy becomes MiracleMan to sound different, rights get muddier than a Peppa Pig puddle and eventually Marvel snags all the rights.
Pretty surreal.
Somewhat ironic that Marvel decided to cash in by reprinting some of the early stuff, where its still a fairly close rip of "Captain Marvel", if they ever get to the later critically acclaimed stuff it might be interesting, but for me at present its a case where the story behind the comic is more interesting than the comic.
For the record I loved Jerry Ordways run on Shazam comics and would like to read more of the later MiracleMan stuff if for nothing more than reading it like Watchmen was to the Charlton, that would be to the Fawcett stuff.
Marc.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2014 19:04:08 GMT
So Miracleman Issue 1 came out.
Didn't buy a physical copy as I will get the trade so to Comixology for me. A decent package all in, I understand Garry Leach was signing copies at Orbital so I expect James Wilson had a pretty busy day at work.
Wasn't a fan of Joe Q's cover art, the recolour job on the interiors was pretty well done and yes Alan Moore is credited simply as The Original Writer.
Made me chuckle a bit.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Jan 16, 2014 19:24:46 GMT
Oh wow, they finally sorted out the rights issues did they?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 16, 2014 19:31:51 GMT
Couldn't give a toss. I was interested in 2009 but too much time has passed for me to care. No sale to Burns.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2014 19:31:53 GMT
Yup.
Monthly series, and then we get to see the closure of Gaiman/Buckingham's run.
After that...well...who knows.
Andy
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