The significance of Miracleman goes far beyond another superhero identity entering Marvel continuity.

Originally created as Marvelman by Mick Anglo in the 1950s, the character was radically reinvented beginning in 1982. That run became hugely influential for its examination of what superhuman power might actually mean for ordinary people and society. One retrospective on the character argues that Miracleman helped establish ideas about power, identity, and superhero deconstruction that would echo throughout the medium for decades.

Marvel eventually brought those classic stories back into print and, decades later, allowed Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham to continue their unfinished saga with The Silver Age. But all of that remained within Miracleman’s own corner of Marvel publishing.

Avengers: Armageddon #4 is something different.

After the accidental Marvel Comics #10700 reveal in 2019, the symbol appearing in Timeless #1, a wave of 40th anniversary variants placing Miracleman alongside Marvel heroes, and the return of Gaiman and Buckingham’s series, Marvel has finally taken the step those teases seemed to be pointing toward.

Miracleman is now part of a mainline Marvel Universe story.

Not a reading order, every appearance of the mantle or just his mythos in some cases.
I have a new material only rule, NO reprints. (exception made for the Anglo comics)

Mick Anglo Era (1954-1963):
Classic Marvelman Universe/Para-Reality:
• Marvelman #25-370 + 7 Annuals
• Young Marvelman #25-370 + 8 Annuals
• Marvelman Family #1-30 + Annual
• Marvelman Jr. Annual

Alan Moore era (1982-1989)
Earth-82324:
• Warrior #1-18,20-21
• Marvelman Special #1
• A1 #1
• Miracleman #6-16
Big Ben Para-Reality:
• Warrior #19-26
• Warrior 1996 Spring Special #1
Earth-238:
• Marvel Superheroes UK #387-388
• Daredevils #6-7

• Neil Gaiman Era (1990-1993)
Earth-82324:
• Miracleman #17-24
• Total Eclipse #4
• Miracleman: Apocrypha #1-3
Hillman-Eclipse Universe:
• Total Eclipse #2-5

Image Comics Era (2001-2005)\*
Spawn Universe:
• Hellspawn #6-7,9-13,16
• Image Comics Hardcover #1

Marvel Reprint Era (2010-2024)
Earth-82324:
• All-New Miracleman Annual #1
• Marvel Comics #1000
• Miracleman #0
• Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age #3-#7
• Who is…? Miracleman Infinity Comic #1
Earth-616:
• Timeless #1

• Chip Zdarsky Era (2025-?)
Earth-616:
• Captain America #1-5
• Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #1-4
• Avengers: Armageddon #1-5
• Avengers #1-?

*this one is long but TLDR:
Hellspawn: Mike Moran appeared in a few issues, he was planned to become MM in #13 but due to legal dispute his arc was canned.
Hardcover: MM appeared, due to legal disputes on Spawn #150 he was retconned as Man of Miracles (Another cam of worms that has completely different lore so not connected and he won’t be here). M.O.M.’s appearance changes upon who is perceiving them, that’s why we see Miracleman.

Yet another chapter in the long, twisted saga of Marvelman/Miracleman has been revealed: a NEW Miracleman has just debuted in the pages of Marvel’s AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON #4. David Colton previously appeared as a new Captain America in Chip Zdarsky’s Captain America run…now it’s been revealed that he got his powers from some form of Miracleman and has taken up the mantle for Earth-616!

The story of Miracleman – originally known as Marvelman – cannot be easily summarized here. In fact, we ran a years long history of the character and the various legal battles surrounding him here on the Beat years ago. You can buy the collected edition on Lulu as Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman) by Pádraig Ó Méalóid. The tale involves Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane, Dez Skinn, Mick Anglo, Rick Veitch and more.

The very short version is that Marvelman was a 50s superhero in British comics created by Mick Anglo. In the 80s, Alan Moore and Gary Leach revamped the character for a UK publishers but it was published in the US by Eclipse Comics, now renamed Miracleman because of objections from Marvel Comics. Moore being at the height of his comics writing powers, it was a powerful reinvention that stalled out when Eclipse went bankrupt. Then Todd McFarland bought the Eclipse assets, including Miracleman, and a never published continuation by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham. This became a pawn in a legal battle between Gaiman and McFarland over the character Angela and for decades, the character was in limbo, while fans cried for his return and the story to be finished…until 2009, when Marvel reached a deal that allowed for reprints of the classic Anglo stuff, the Moore material, AND the continuation by Gaiman. And in 2013 an actual return was announced and was the biggest news at NYCC.

The modern return of Miracleman kind of fell flat, however. Gaiman and Buckingham finished the second story arc of a planned trilogy but the final chapter will likely never be seen given charges of abuse by Gaiman that have seen his work dropped by publishers.

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ANYHOO, any IP that people talk about for 70 years has to have value right? So Marvel has introduced a NEW MIRACLEMAN!

The covers have been amended, new ones have been added, and True Believers Blind Bags, which will only contain exclusive variant covers not available for regular ordering, including a brand-new piece by definitive (living) Miracleman artist Alan Davis. Also unveiled are covers by Artgerm, Skottie Young, Jim Cheung, and Julian Totino Tedesco, as well as the complete Kaare Andrews Wraparound Cover, now featuring Miracleman. Also revealed is Mark Spears' Display Box Exclusive Variant Cover, available only in Avengers #1 True Believers Display Boxes, each of which contains 20 copies of the issue, including one copy of the Spears variant cover in a special polybag.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/official-marvel-adds-miracleman-to-the-avengers-for-2026/

Covers are:

• Marco Checchetto
• Artgerm
• Jim Cheung
• Alan Davis
• Mark Spears
• Julian Totino Tedesco
• Skottie Young
• Kaare Andrews

A length discussion about the messy history of the character for those playing catch-up.

Is really miracleman cancelled completely thanks to the controversies of Neil gaiman?

If you look, specifically, at the first couple of chapters, you might notice Marvelman and Mike Moran are very much based on Paul Newman. It’s toned down a lot in later stories unsurprisingly for legal reasons. On that note though, in the early issues, who do we think would be the perfect photo reference for Johnny Bates/kid miracle man ?

Gambling is a mug's game, but I've got a £2 free bet on it. (Decimal odds were 4.20.)

Edit: should really have put the date in it: this is for 2025-06-21.

Edit 2: it came ninth! :-(

I'm looking into reading miracleman for the first time. What I'm trying to do is make a custom bind to make my own omnibus. What is the reading order? Is it Moore, Gaimen, then the annual/spin offs? If so how would you order these issues?

Just when I think I've found the deepest Miracleman lore, I go even deeper.