Trivia / Miracleman

• Alan Smithee: The Marvel reprint series credits Alan Moore as "The Original Writer", stemming from the contracts he signed some years ago, when he signed away his creative rights to Gaiman and his share of the money to Mick Anglo, whom he considers to have been cheated out of his rightful profit from the character.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Eclipse Comics billed Miracleman as "America's #1 Super Hero" despite the characters and setting being British.
• Creator Backlash: Has relatively less of this, since it's not as well-known as Watchmen or The Killing Joke, but the few times it's been brought up in interviews, Alan Moore has had very few kind words about it (once describing the entire franchise "a poisoned chalice").
  • This is more because of the Troubled Production and rights issues and his bad relationships with Dez Skinn. He is generally proud of the work and discussed it in detail in George Khoury's book Kimota!.
  • One thing Moore does genuinely hate: the renaming from Marvelman to Miracleman solely to protect Marvel's brand which he saw as unfair given how One-Mario Limit never really applied before Marvel Comics decided that the world wasn't big enough for more than one marvel. Legally Eclipse Comics didn't want to fight the battle so they adjusted.
• In Memoriam: Miracleman issue 0, printed in 2022, was dedicated to the memory of artist Garry Leach.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For many years, this was one of the most notorious comics examples, with the copyright morass preventing reprints and the widespread interest in a core Alan Moore work ensuring that copies of the Moore and Gaiman serial issues and collections sold for ludicrous prices. It was finally rescued starting from 2014.
• Renamed to Avoid Association: He was initially named "Marvelman" before a dispute with Marvel Comics, by then a major player in the comics industry. There's some black humor in the fact that the Miracleman name was first used for a Captain Ersatz of the character in one of Marvel's own comics (Captain Britain: A Crooked World), a couple of years earlier - which was also written by Alan Moore.
• Schedule Slip: The Silver Age reprints, which were announced for release in 2016, only for the first two issues to be pulled from retailers and unsolicited, with Marvel EIC Axel Alonso explaining this was done to ensure the remaining issues could be released seamlessly without any delays (possibly to avoid a similar situation DC faced when releasing The Sandman: Overture, which took two years to complete) However...
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Neil Gaiman has also stated on his Facebook that the continued delay in re-releasing The Silver Age is due to unspecified legal issues cropping up regarding contractual obligations, and that the writing of the remaining issues will only commence once this has been resolved. It took until late 2022 for the series to finally be solicited for release.

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