Superhero rights.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - Miracleman - Brief article

Miracleman, a 1980s comic written by Alan Moore, set the tone for the darker and more literary superhero stories to come. Now it's back in print--a victory over lengthy copyright squabbles.

Moore's series, published in America by Eclipse Comics, deconstructed the 1950s hero Marvelman who was himself essentially a renamed Captain Marvel, who D.C. Comics killed in the 1950s for being a Superman ripoff. After Moore left the comic, Sandman scribe Neil Gaiman picked up the story. Butthings got complicated in 1996 when artist-publisher Todd McFarlane bought the rights to...