Re: Marvelman: Yesterday Gambit & other rarities

Will Dockery

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Nov 12, 2009, 4:57:30 PM11/12/09

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"Does it include 'The Yesterday Gambit'? I hope Marvel's reprint/
redraw includes it..."

Yes... I've just been looking at "The Yesterday Gambit", available
(for now) here:

http://miraclemen.info/comics/W04.html

"For a while there was talk of having the Moore stories retold as a
different character ... I was rooting for Captain Miracle myself."

"Fascinating convolutions Anglo put the character through, Captain
Miracle is covered fairly well here, who supposedly fought the...
KKK?"

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/capmir.htm

And then Anglo's Super Hombre, Marvelman stories redrawn for the
Spanish market, which were then translated back to English, as...
Miracle Man!... Read More

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/mircman.htm

This is all pretty hilarious, Marvelman's history has got to be the
most complicated & convoluted of all time...

I just came across this, pretty interesting description of Marvelman
#255, July 5 1958:

"This issue’s 8-page cover-story, “Marvelman And The Prehistoric Men”,
starts as Mickey Moran -- Marvelman’s civilian alter ego -- reads a
book that contains photos of petroglyphs drawn by prehistoric cavemen.
Somehow, the cave-wall ...pictures include a depiction of what looks
like a sleek spaceship! Deciding to investigate, Mickey utters the
magic keyword “Kimota” and (accompanied by the somewhat inappropriate
sound effect “Woof”) is transformed into Marvelman!"

Cover scan of the issue is included, as well:

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2002-01-21

Cool stuff, hope some of y'all enjoy it...

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"Red Lipped Stranger & other stories" by Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

Will Dockery

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Jan 5, 2010, 10:55:32 AM1/5/10

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Interesting stuff on the Marvelman copyright:

Will Dockery

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Jan 6, 2010, 9:02:16 AM1/6/10

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Nice new thread on Marvelman at Marvel.com, including a quote from
Bendis stating that Marvelman will not be part of the main Marvel
Universe:

http://marvel.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=172732&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=f01b246963d25a0f37240b988f136f0f

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