Jaspers' Warp
Joel Potter
I heard (from my borther, who's a fanatic) that Marvel intend
reprinting the Jaspers' Warp, by Alan Moore & Alan Davis, which
originally occurred in the Marvel UK titles Marvel Super Heroes
(378-388), Defenders (1-12) & Mighty World of Marvel (5 or 6 to 13).
Can anyone confirm/disprove this? I originally heard it was all tied up
by Alan Moore's copyright over the Fury. If it is reprinted, I will
kill for a copy!
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Marvin Germany
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> I heard (from my borther, who's a fanatic) that Marvel intend
>reprinting the Jaspers' Warp, by Alan Moore & Alan Davis, which
>originally occurred in the Marvel UK titles Marvel Super Heroes
>(378-388), Defenders (1-12) & Mighty World of Marvel (5 or 6 to 13).
>Can anyone confirm/disprove this? I originally heard it was all tied up
>by Alan Moore's copyright over the Fury. If it is reprinted, I will
>kill for a copy!
What's Jaspers Warp?
Waiting in suspense....
Marvin Germany
mg...@andrew.cmu.edu
m...@sei.cmu.edu
Cisco's Buddy
} I heard (from my borther, who's a fanatic) that Marvel intend reprinting
} the Jaspers' Warp, by Alan Moore & Alan Davis, which originally occurred
} in the Marvel UK titles Marvel Super Heroes (378-388), Defenders (1-12)
} & Mighty World of Marvel (5 or 6 to 13).
The original appearances were:
MARVEL SUPER-HEROES MONTHLY #377-389 (Sep 1981 - Sep 1982)
THE DAREDEVILS #1-11 (Jan 1983 - Nov 1983)
THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL #7-16 (Dec 1983 - Sep 1984)
MSHM #377-384,386 were written by Dave Thorpe. #385 was a fill-in by Paul
Neary. Moore started with #387. If Marvel did reprint them, the Thorpe-
written installments would be desirable, as they set up the scenario.
Moore left after MIGHTY WORLD #13. #14-16 were reprinted in the CAPTAIN
BRITAIN collection.
} Can anyone confirm/disprove this? I originally heard it was all tied
} up by Alan Moore's copyright over the Fury. If it is reprinted, I will
} kill for a copy!
I can't confirm or disprove it, though I would be very surprised if Moore
relented. Maybe he's getting soft in his old age. It wasn't Moore's
copyright over the Fury that held it up, it was his copyright on the
stories themselves. Due to the peculiarities of British copyright law,
while Marvel owns the characters, Moore owns the stories (the plot and
dialogue), and Davis the artwork). None of the three can reprint any of
the stories without the other two's permission.
In article <64...@ac.sei.cmu.edu>, m...@sei.cmu.edu (Marvin Germany) writes...
} What's Jaspers Warp?
It's along story (literally). I suppose it's time for another offer. I've
written up fairly detailed synopses of each installment of the Captain
Britain feature from the above-mentioned British comics (plus an overview
of his previous appearances, as well as a full bibliography of his
appearances prior to EXCALIBUR). Anyone who sends me a request via mail
will receive the whole kit'n'kaboodle. (Marv, you won't have to send a
request -- I'll send the files on to you anyways).
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Joel Potter
>
>What's Jaspers Warp?
>
>
>Waiting in suspense....
>
aware of Marvel UK? Well, it's the UK branch of Marvel (what a
surprise). You MUST have heard of Alan Moore - I understand he's become
rather famous. Less well-known is Alan Davis, but if you want to see
some of his work check out Excalibur up to the cross-time caper. From
then the comic turns garbage, and I wouldn't want to force that on you.
Now, Captain Britain had several series to start off. If you
want to read some of the best, buy the Captain Britain (I don't want to
start another argument) Big Book of Pictures and Words - this is full of
the stories just AFTER the Warp.
Captain Britain had a series in the UK comic "Marvel Super
Heroes". Yikes! Spoilers warning!
He starts off in "Otherworld", with Merlin the magician (yeh, I
know - corny), who tells him something about "great peril", and sends
him off to Earth. It transpires, though, that this is not the Earth
that Captain Briatin comes from - it even has it's own incarnation of
Captain Britain: Linda McQuillan, Captain UK. Anyway. There's a
politician, Sir James Jaspers, who's very anti-superheroes. He turns
out to be insane, as well as being a mutant himself with the unlimited
ability to alter reality! He makes the world go mad... Captain Britain
fights against this, but Alan Moore takes over scripting and invents the
Fury - a creation of James Jaspers which is 'programmed' to KILL ALL
SUPERHEROES! It, of course, is virtually indestructible. The very next
issue the Fury has cleared out the world of all SuperHeroes, including
Captain Britain. That was MSH #378-388.
Then Alan Moore wrote a followup story, which starts with
Captain Britain being resurrected by Merlin. Needless to say, on the
Mainstream Marvel Reality, there's another Sir James Jaspers, who also
goes insane and has super powers. He doesn't make a Fury - the one from
the original dimension follows Captain Britain over.
That's Daredevils 1-12.
The story then moves to Mighty World of Marvel #5-13.
I hope that's helped!
Joe!
Lord Mephron of Ghormenghast
prosecutor at Magneto's trial in X-Men 200.
Joel Potter
>DOn't forget that Jaspers is still alive, somehow, and showed up as the
>prosecutor at Magneto's trial in X-Men 200.
What? In the Jaspers Warp storyline he is definitely dead!