Dieser Autor ist vor allem für seine Beiträge zu Comic-Erzählungen und insbesondere als Schöpfer des Superhelden, der später als Miracleman bekannt wurde, anerkannt. Sein Einfluss liegt in der Entwicklung von Charakteren und Geschichten, die die britische Comicszene prägten. Er erforscht tiefere Themen innerhalb des Superhelden-Genres und verschiebt damit die Grenzen des traditionellen Geschichtenerzählens. Sein Stil zeichnet sich durch starkes visuelles Erzählen und komplexe Charakterisierungen aus.
By shouting the famous name of his hero, Marvelman, the orphan Dicky Dauntless, assumes the form of the redoubtable Young Marvelman! Watch as the Mightiest Boy in the Universe metes out atomic-powered justice to robot bandits, underwater pirates, foreign revolutionaries and more in his earliest adventures!
"Michael Moran has a secret. A secret hidden so deep inside that even he didn't know it -- until the fateful day a single word tumbled from his lips: Kimota! It came from the deepest recesses of his memory, from a past life repressed, and with it came unbelievable abilities. The consequences of this single world would transform not only the life of Michael Moran and those closest to him, it would also pull an unsuspecting world into coexistence with something marvelous. Something that not even our mythologies, folklore, films or comic boooks could have prepared us for. Kimota! And Mike Moran was no longer just a mortal man. He was a miracle of godhood. A Miracleman."--Front jacket flap.
KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael Moran always knew he was meant for something more-now, an unexpected series of events leads him to reclaim his destiny as Miracleman! The groundbreaking graphic novel that heralded a literary revolution begins here in A Dream of Flying. After nearly two decades away, Miracleman uncovers his origins and their connection to the British military's Project Zarathustra'. Collects Miracleman #1-4.'
Who is the mysterious Marvelman? If you only know him from his dark, deconstructionist eighties revival, then you don't know Marvelman! Now, experience the saga of one of the most storied characters ever to emerge from the British comics market! Go back to the very beginning - 1954's MARVELMAN #25 - and witness firsthand the earliest atomic-powered adventures of the mightiest man in the universe...the fearless fighter of evil known as Marvelman! PLUS: REPRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE! SO RARE IT WAS ONCE THOUGHT MYTHICAL, THE FAMOUS "LOST ISSUE" #26! COLLECTING: MARVELMAN 25-35