Miracle Man (superhero)
comics character
Miracle Man is a fictional British Silver Age comic book superhero. The character was originally created by Mick Anglo for Barcelona-based Spanish publisher Editorial Ferma in 1958 as Superhombre, running for 68 issues. In 1965 Anglo repurposed the character as Miracle Man for Thorpe & Porter, who released the monthly Miracle Man via their Top Sellers imprint between 1965 and 1966, running for 13 issues. While Miracle Man has a wide number of similarities with Anglo's earlier creation Marvelman (himself inspired by Fawcett's Captain Marvel), the strips were not redrawn versions of that character's adventures, although many covered similar themes.
A variation of the character's name - Miracleman - was used when legal issues saw Alan Moore's 1980s revival of Marvelman renamed, and had already been used by writer as the name for an analogue of Marvelman in his Captain Britain stories.
Publication history
During his employment with L. Miller & Son, Ltd., Mick Anglo was engaged by Spanish publisher Editorial Ferma to create a superhero and devised Superhombre, heavily based on the Captain Marvel template. While Anglo created the character, the work on the strips themselves was largely by writer Juan Llarch and artist Emilio Giralt Ferrando. Like Marvelman only the covers were in colour, with the interiors being in black and white. Following the end of the Marvelman titles and an unsuccessful attempt to set up his own Anglo Comics label, Anglo subsequently adapted the Superhombre material into English and sold it to Thorpe & Porter as Miracle Man. The name had previously been considered for Marvelman during that character's creation in 1954.
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