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Miracleman, originally known as Marvelman in his native United Kingdom, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a home-grown substitute for the American character Captain Marvel, the series ran until 1963. He was revived in 1982 in a dark, post-modern deconstructionist series by writer Alan Moore, with later contributions by Neil Gaiman.

The character is notorious for the long, complex and expensive legal battle over various creative rights attached to it. As yet unresolved, the litigation has directly involved Gaiman, Todd McFarlane and several other people who also claim at least partial ownership of the character and the works containing him. This rights conflict has prevented the reprint and distribution of any of the Miracleman stories, making the critically acclaimed work extremely difficult to find.

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