(Young) Marvelman paints a picture

Here's a shout-out for that (ebay seller and) finder of wonderful comic things philcomics. These were up for sale recently and I just snagged these images because I'd never seen them before. Each issue sold for £31

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 4

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here)was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 4 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

CI #128 - the Miracleman cover that never was

A recent Facebook chat took me down a Miracleman rabbit-hole recently...Suffice it to say the (first) cover below was used in the Diamond Previews catalogue cover BUT Todd McFarlane saw it and threatened to sue Comics International if it was used. So it wasn't used... 

...instead this was the cover that was used - you may recognise it as the cover (by Mick Austin) from Warrior #7 

The issue contains 5 pages all about Miracleman, including Mark Buckingham's original artwork for issue 25 which at that point was unpublished.

Here's the original chat...

MarvelMan #25 sold!

News reaches me of a recent sale of one of the rarest of British comics...Marvelman volume 1, number 25

This is the the first appearance of Marvelman

Issues 1-24 had (previously) been titled Captain Marvel but the title had to be re-named due to DC suing Fawcett.

Very successfully it ran for 370 issues, with the character relaunched as Alan Moore's Marvelman in Warrior no.1 in 1982, then Miracleman no.1 in 1985 and is now with Marvel.

As you'll see this comic is not in great condition. The seller estimates that there are less than 10 known copies - and some of those are in worse condition than this.

Anyway, keep an eye out for this wherever you see comics because this sold (via a private sale) for $6,200 (£4,700) - a price topped only by the very rarest and earliest pre-war #1's of comic like the Beano.

Check out all other Alan Moore references here