Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American character Captain Marvel, the series ran until 1963. He was revived in 1982 in a dark, post-modern deconstructionist series by writer Alan Moore, with later contributions by Neil Gaiman.
The character's copyright status is notorious for the long, complex and expensive legal battle over various creative rights attached to it. Unresolved for many years, the litigation had directly involved Gaiman, Todd McFarlane and several other people who also claimed at least partial ownership of the character and the works containing him. This legal-rights conflict had prevented the reprint and distribution of any of the Miracleman stories, making the critically acclaimed work extremely difficult to find. The situation was further complicated when, in 2009, Joe Quesada announced Marvel Comics had purchased the rights to the original Marvelman character.
Read more about Marvelman: Marvelman: The Mick Anglo Years, Miracleman: The Neil Gaiman Years, Alternative Versions, The Ownership of Marvelman and The Character's Future, Collected Editions