In 1985 Eclipse began reprinting the Marvelman stories in color, they changed his name to Miracleman. Marvel did not like the use of Marvel being used in the name so Marvleman ended in issue 21. In the ’80s, the UK revitalized Marvelman in a Black and White comic magazine called Warrior, Alan Moore gave the character a darker feel. I did not realize that there were 346 issues of Marvelman and Young Marvelman. Similar back story as Captain Marvel but instead of Magic Powers, his are atomic and instead of saying Shazam, he says Kitoma (Phonetically atomic backward). asked comic packager Mick Anglo to find a solution. Lawsuit over another DC Captain Marvel/Shazam, so UK Publisher, L. The character has been around since the ’50s in the UK. The history of Miracleman is fascinating to read if you want to check out more follow the Wikipedia link above, but here is a quick synopsis. Įclipse Comics sold the rights to all their properties to Todd McFarlane in 1996 for $25,000. Eclipse moved several times: from 81 Delaware Street, Staten Island, New York to 295 Austin Street, Columbia, Missouri and then to the small towns of Guerneville and later Forestville in Sonoma County, California. I also think it is cool that d uring the early 1980s, the publisher based its operations in a few places but many were smaller towns.
These are some of the great none DC/Marvel heroes of the ’80s.
When I see the list of creators associated with Eclipse it is not as impressive as Pacific, but Eclipse published superhero titles including Miracleman by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, The Rocketeer (started at Pacific Comics) by Dave Stevens, and Zot! by Scott McCloud. Published in August 1978, it led to a 14-issue spin-off series for Eclipse. Eclipse published one of the first original graphic novels, and the first to be sold through the new “direct market” of comic-book stories, Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species by Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy. The company was founded as Eclipse Enterprises by brothers Jan and Dean Mullaney in 1977. I could not find a good side article about Eclipse comics but I still went back to Wikipedia for some info. So this week let’s look at Eclipse, there is only one big series Eclipse had that are not in Dollar bins. You can’t dig through a dollar box without coming across some Eclipse comics. In fact, many of the Pacific Comic series were picked up by Eclipse Comics. After a great response last week to Pacific Comics, I kept seeing another comic publisher mentioned with the same breath as Pacific Comics.
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