Marvelman отбасының жас супербатыры: Kid Marvelman тарихы

Comic book character

would later speculate that the comic's audience was primarily prepubescent boys who would not react well to a female character. Kid Marvelman debuted in the secondary strip of Marvelman #101, as the superhero identity of young boy Johnny Bates. The appearance was written by Anglo and drawn by Don Lawrence, who would illustrate the majority of the character's 1950s appearances. After a stint as a supporting feature in Marvelman, the character was span off into the new monthly title Marvelman Family, where the lead strip saw Kid Marvelman team up with Marvelman and Young Marvelman against various threats. Like his stablemates, Kid Marvelman's adventures began with the character already having his powers; unlike them, his origin was never related to readers. Instead a text box in his first appearance noting that Bates had been "appointed by Marvelman himself" was the only explanation given for how the character has been empowered. While his co stars would appear in their own weekly comics until 1963, Kid Marvelman was rarely glimpsed within. The Marvelman Family name was briefly revived in 1963 for an annual with Kid Marvelman on the cover along with his allies but the contents featured only a single reprint appearance for the character.

When Marvelman was revived as a revisionist superhero strip in Quality Communications anthology Warrior, Kid Marvelman was part of the story's main cast. Writer Alan Moore reinvented the character as a villain, both of Marvelman and in the early stages the mooted shared 'Warrior universe'. The latter posited that another of Moore's strips for the magazine V for Vendetta took place in an alternate universe where Marvelman was never reborn;
The series was continued from 1985 as Miracleman by Eclipse Comics in order to avoid legal action by Marvel Comics, with the character renamed Kid Miracleman as a result. spy rings, thieves' and squabbling yokels. He also frequently joined Marvelman and Young Marvelman as the super team known as the Marvelman Family; among the threats they faced were Garrer and his army of time travelling renegades, a combined alliance of Marvelman's arch enemy Doctor Gargunza and his nephew, Young Marvelman rogue Young Gargunza, the King of Vegetableland
invaders from the planet Vardica, would be dictator Professor Batts and his speech scramber, a crime boss intent on sinking Pacific City below the ocean, the cruel, slave driving King Snop of Atlantis (which the story revealed would eventually become Australia), an attempt by Gargunza to declare himself King of the Universe, cruel 14th century knight Simon de Carton (and clearing the name of Amadis of Gaul in the process), a monster accidentally collected from the planet Droon and Professor Wosmine's shrinking ray.

Being orphaned and related to RAF staff, Jonathan "Johnny" Bates' name found its way onto a list of potential candidates for Spookshow's Project Zarathustra. He was selected at random and abducted in 1956 (aged between 6 and 7) to be the third member of the Miracleman Family, a superhuman British Cold War weapons project. As with the previous recruits Michael Moran and Richard Dauntless he was kept unconscious while captured Qys technology was used to grow a superpowered clone version that was placed in infraspace. In the same publication, following the events of Miracleman #15 Mike Maddox described the character as "perhaps the nastiest ever super human". In 2006, Wizard Magazine ranked Kid Marvelman 52nd in their "Top 100 Greatest Villains Ever" list. Three years later IGN placed the character 26th in their "Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time" list. Mark Ginocchio of ComicBook. com rated Kid Miracleman turning against Miracleman as #6 on a list of 10 Great Comic Book Heel Turns in 2014, saying "Kid Miracleman's heel turn is notable for just how extreme of a character shift it ended up being". In a 2016 essay on the so called 'Dark Age of Comic Books' for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jackson Ayres noted the "extreme and appalling" destruction of London by Kid Miracleman. The character has been cited as an influence on wider superhero media Christian Holub of Entertainment Weekly noted the influence of Miracleman in general and Kid Miracleman's arc in particular on the 2019 superhero film Brightburn. while Timothy Donohoo of Comic Book Resources drew a number of comparisons between the comics and Superman film Man of Steel.