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Miracleman Art By Dave Wachter

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Title:	Miracleman Art By Dave Wachter
Artist:	Dave Wachter (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Sketch Card
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	181
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Added to Site:	8/25/2021
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Miracleman
Art By Dave Wachter

The best place to start with him is the beginning of Alan Moore's run, "A Dream of Flying" it features some great art by Gary Leach and Alan Davis. The character has a really interesting, weird history. Originally created as a blatant replacement for Shazam after the British publisher lost the license.
instead of Shazam, Child Mickey Moran shouts Kimota (atomic spelled backwards) and becomes Miracleman.
Alan Moore tells the story of what happens when Mickey forgets his magic word for 30 years. He is 42 out of shape and barely making ends meet as a freelance reporter. Until during a terrorist attack he finally remembers his magic word.
It is an amazing deconstruction of the superhero. Alan Moore wrote the first 16 issues with art by Gary Leach Alan Davis Rick Veitch and John Totleben. Then Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham took over but unfortunately their story was never completed.
It's brilliant! A bit rougher, a bit more punk, you see Alan Moore perfecting the music he and Dave Gibbons created with "Watchmen."
I learned about "Miracleman� when I was a kid reading interviews in "Wizard Magazine" with some of my favorite creators. It has inspired so many creators and stories. For the longest time it was very difficult to find the issues. "Miracleman" was one if the first books I hunted down as a collector. The first issue I located was issue two. It's still one of my favorite single issues I have ever reads. The book was so difficult to find because published by Eclipse who went bankrupt, and the rights were broken up with some being bought by Todd McFarlane and it became a crazy legal battle. Marvel eventually got the rights, and they will hopefully complete Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's story.
The influence of "Miracleman" can't be understated as this and "Watchmen" set the tone for the next age of comics publishing.

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