Marvelman himself was conceived in 1954 by writer Mick Anglo and a number of artists, notably Don Lawrence that original Marvelman comic was a hasty relaunch of publisher L. Moore would return to the idea of adding “real-life” logic to fanciful stories again and again, perhaps most successfully in his and Kevin O’Neill’s masterpiece, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a glorious pileup of literary references that recalls Mad’s anarchic heights. This, Moore said, was the seed of his take on Marvelman, a long-dormant character whom Moore revived in the British anthology Warrior in 1982. “It struck me that if you just turn the dial to the same degree in the other direction, by applying real life logic to a superhero, you could make something … that was quite startling, sort of dramatic and powerful,” Moore told interviewer George Khoury in the 2001 book Kimota! The Miracleman Companion. A decade later, when Moore began to write superhero comics of his own, he still liked the idea of injecting a measure of reality into the genre, but he no longer found it quite so funny.
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