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16 Tuesday Jul 2019

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Just when I’d wrapped up a series of posts about the big box of free comics I got thanks to readers who used my affiliate links to find books at MyComicShop.com, another note from the retailer arrived to say I’d earned an additional $80 in store credit. That same week, I’d found a good deal on eBay to replace one of my favorite (and previously sold) action/crime series, DC/Vertigo’s The Losers, so I was left with very few holes in my collection. The Dark Horse Conan stories I’d like to read again were either too pricey or currently out of stock, so I dug around in my short boxes until it hit me: I still don’t have the complete original Miracleman series!

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Over the years, I’d tracked down affordable copies in respectable condition of issues #1–20, and this quest was aided near the end by Marvel’s reprints of the original series. As Marvel made new, high-quality reprints available, the ridiculous prices for the original books decreased. Issue #15, one of the last gems to enter my collection, used to run from $150 up to several hundred bucks. Now I have a copy in wonderful, though not perfect, condition — and it didn’t cost an arm and a leg.

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I didn’t worry too much about collecting issues #21–24 because Marvel reprinted #21 and 22 in their repackaging of Neil Gaiman’s Golden Age storyline, and it seemed that Gaiman was slated to finish the Silver Age story that ended with a cliffhanger and was never completed due to Eclipse Comics’ demise. But here we are, years later, and we still haven’t seen the end of that story. I’m glad for Gaiman’s recent success with American Gods, but it isn’t a project that interests me. The gods I want to read about have “Miracle” in their names!

So, armed with some store credit, I picked up issues #21-23 of the original series, leaving me with only the rare (and still a bit pricey) #24 on my wish list. I’ve read them all before, thanks to scans posted online, but it’s just a different and more satisfying experience to read the physical copies.

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Those three books ate up most of my store credit, but I had just enough left over to pick up another story I’ve read before but was partially incomplete in my collection: The Price by Jim Starlin. Sure, I have the color “remastered” version that was the Dreadstar Annual, but I have never seen nor owned the original magazine-sized black-and-white edition, and I just love the black-and-white painted art of the original Metamorphosis Odyssey that appeared in Epic Illustrated and started the whole Dreadstar saga.

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The original art reveals just how much the coloring/painting process enhanced the artwork’s mood and the story’s vibrancy. The original feels cold compared to the color version. It lacks the brilliant reds of the robes worn by members of the Church of the Instrumentality, the eye-popping colors that bring various cosmic and mystical energies to life on the page, and the powerful emotions suggested by the reprint’s color artwork.

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However, the front and back-cover paintings are rendered in their original full-color and full-size glory, unlike in the reprint where they are shrunk and surrounded by additional cover elements that distract from their beauty—a complaint that at least one reader expressed in the original letters column of Dreadstar when the Annual was discussed.

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I’m pleased to now have both versions of The Price in my Dreadstar collection, and the original was the one piece I’ve felt was missing over the years. How I assembled, lost, and re-assembled the entire original series four times is a saga of collector triumph and tragedy, but I’m happy to now have every issue I ever wanted from one of my all-time favorite stories in any medium.

Now if we could just see the end of Miracleman, all would be right with the universe.

Thank you, readers and fans of sequential art for visiting this site and using it to find the books you want!

Collectors’ Guide:

Miracleman #1-24 (original 1985 series, Eclipse Comics)

Miracleman (reprint series by Marvel Comics, includes original issues #1-16)

Miracleman Golden Age (reprint series by Marvel, includes original issues #17-22 )

The Price (original magazine-sized b&w edition, Eclipse Comics)

Dreadstar Annual #1 (full-color reprint of the original, Epic/Marvel comics)

Marvelman in Warrior 21+25+26

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.





Marvelman in Warrior 19+20

17 Tuesday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 18

16 Monday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 17

15 Sunday Sep 2013

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Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.





Marvelman in Warrior 16

14 Saturday Sep 2013

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Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 15

13 Friday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 14

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 13

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 12

09 Monday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 11

08 Sunday Sep 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 10

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 9

30 Friday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 8

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 7

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 6

26 Monday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.




Marvelman in Warrior 5

24 Saturday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis



Marvelman in Warrior 4

23 Friday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.





Marvelman in Warrior 3

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvelman in Warrior 2

20 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.



Marvel Man in Warrior 1

19 Monday Aug 2013

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Alan Moore, Marvelman, MiracleMan, Warrior

Marvelman appeared in Warrior #1-21; Quality Communications, 1982-4. #25-6 contained the letters from Marvel demanding Quality cease publishing Marvelman. The series would start from the beginning as Miracleman, reprinted in color by Eclipse Comics, continuing the story once the first six or seven issues wrapped up the revised reprints. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach, Alan Davis, etc.





Alan Moore’s WarpSmith: Cold War, Cold Warrior!

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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Alan Moore, Aza Chorn, Cold War Cold Warrior, Gary Leach, Indie Comics, MiracleMan, Quality, Warpsmith, Warrior

Miracleman fans recognize Aza Chorn, the Warpsmith. He gave Miracleman a hand more than once, especially during the devastation of London. But if you never read the original issues of Warrior published in the UK by Quality, you missed this little gem: a two-part Warpsmith story by Miracleman team Alan Moore and Gary Leach.

Yes, this story hit the streets in 1983 when Miracleman was still Marvelman. He adventured in black and white. Marvel Comics had not yet sent Quality a nasty-gram to cease and desist. At the same time, Warrior’s brief 26 issues also serialized the beginning of Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta. Along with several other interesting and artistic stories, Warrior packed a lot of heavy comics!

But for now, let’s can the exposition and warp right into our gallery. Enjoy!

Collector’s Guide: From Warrior #9-#10; Quality Communications, 1983. Script: Alan Moore; Art: Gary Leach.




Miracleman 15: Nemesis!

01 Sunday Jan 2012

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Alan Moore, destruction of london, Indie Comics, John Totleben, Johnny Bates, Kid Miracleman, MiracleMan, Miracleman 15, Nemesis

What can we say about Miracleman #15 that hasn’t been said before? Probably nothing. But it totally rules! Someday the comic book industry will remove its head from its butt and reprint this series. What a bunch of babies! Don’t they know everyone needs their own copy of Miracleman #15?

Well, Martians, Happy Bloody New Year! Help yourself to these scans of Miracleman #15 by the illustrious team of Alan Moore and John Totleben. Don’t say we never did nothin’ for you! Peace out and be nice to Johnny Bates. Never refer to him as “Master” Bates — unless you want to risk the destruction of London!

Collector’s Guide: From Miracleman 15; Eclipse, 1988. Reprinted in MiracleMan TPB #3; Eclipse, 1990.

You might also enjoy seeing the rest of our Miracleman Gallery.

Behold! The First Issue of Miracleman!

19 Saturday Nov 2011

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Miracleman #1. Here’s where the most celebrated comic book story of all time got its start. Witness the humble beginning where Miracleman tells his wife about his “secret origin”. She asks how she’s supposed to believe such a “bloody stupid story!” HA! Lady, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

This first issue should keep you Martians busy while Marvel decides whether or not they can reprint the issues of ‘Marvelman’ anyone actually gives a damn about. “Behold! I teach you the superman! He is this lightning! He is this madness!” KIMOTA!

Collector’s Guide:
-From MiracleMan #1; Eclipse, 1985. Story by Alan Moore, Art by Gary Leach.
– Originally printed in Warrior Magazine #1-3 (black and white); Quality, 1982.
– Reprinted in MiracleMan TPB #1; Eclipse, 1988.

You might also enjoy the controversial birth scene from Miracleman #9, the destruction of London in Miracleman #15, or our other Alan Moore goodies.









This Pure Act of Creation!

14 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in educational, indie, superhero

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Alan Moore, birth, birth scene, Eclipse Comics, Indie Comics, MiracleMan, MiracleMan 9, Rick Veitch

The birth scene in Miracleman #9 made it one of the most controversial issues of arguably the greatest superhero story of the twentieth century. Isn’t it strange that a candid depiction of birth, an event all of us experience at least once, often draws harsher criticisms than graphic depictions of violence? Hats off to Alan Moore and Rick Veitch for this one.

Collector’s Guide: From Miracleman #9; Eclipse. Reprinted in MiracleMan TPB #2.




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