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Thursday, 12 November 2026

When? Who? Anglo's original Miracle Man

 


It was during 1958 that Editorial Ferma asked Mick Anglo to produce a sup[er hero comic for the Spanish market. Anglo created El Super Hombre, a character with similar powers but a distinctly different origin to his then existing creation, Marvelman.
The series lasted 68 issues and in 1965, Top Sellers wanting apiece of the super hero craze, asked Anglo to produce a superhero title for them.
There were no flies on Anglo and he took some of El Super Hombre's stories and translated them into English. The character also had a name change to Miracle Man.
Now, as noted previously, there are claims that El Super Hombre's stories were redrawn Marvelman strips. Being an extremely sad person with no real life I have checked and double checked and I can find no "draw overs" (as when The Ghoist Rider Western character became The Bat) .
It is claimed that scripts were by Spanish writer Juan Llarch and art was by Spanish artist Giralt (Emilio Giralt Ferrando).
A couple of points here is that if Anglo created the character and origin story then it was written by him. Sadly, in comics there are too many under-the table deals and "don't tell the t6ax man" schemes. No one could really be bothered with Miracle Man enough to ask Anglo (interest now is only in overpricing copies because "Miracle Man is now in Avengers"!
The art it has to be said has at least two distinct stytles and one thing noticeable is that at one point Miracle Man wears goggles in the next he does not. So no real continuity there. Also, there is a very clear Anglo influence in the art and I have no idea whether he just provided pencils but his style is quite clear.

Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Time For A Break

 


I've decided that, barring any exception, I am going to stop buying old comics.
My family have made it clear that mosty of my archive will probably end up being thrown away or burnt. Reprinting the near impossible comics to keep their memory going has been financially crippling and there have been no sales of any of the books since 2019 ( and those sales were low).
I sent out more free copies of Comic Bits 1-4 than were purchased. It is all a lot of workand financially bad.
My plans for Comic Bits 5 and 6 are cancelled.
I've tried for over 35 years to sustain interest in the old comics and creators and I've reached a point where I realised I am knocking myself out for nothing. Everything is one way and even the blog with over 20K views gets no feed back.

Posts from now on "as and When"

It's taken almost 40 years but....

 


These were the last two GA comics I purchased. I have been looking for the origin of Jungle Lord sinbce the 1980sand a seller sent me The Comet with part 2 as a "sorry" for an error on his part.
Quite by accident I was looking up the sale involved and at the bottom of the page was 12 and 14 ....£5 so £10 and I get the origin account. I have a LOT of Comet issues that I have not listed in my book yet but happy.
THE COMET No. 12, New Series, Feb 21, 1947
THE COMET No. 14, New Series, Mar 21, 1947


Monday, 9 November 2026

Hmmm. Are These Ridiculous Prices So High For A Reason?

 I wondered: Why are Mick Anglo (and other artists) issues of Marvelman suddenly so expensive?

Then I found out. Greed.
Miracleman (aka Marvelman) is now a character (not that well written) in Marvel Comics but it is NOT the original character -not even the likeness of.
Today I saw a copy of the early 1960s Miracle Man (the name they borrowed to avoid legal action by Marvel) going for £54 and others for £60 -one seller even put "Now in Marvel Comics!".
The sheer bloody ignorance of these scalpers is amazing..
In case anyone is interested this was a black and white comic of, I believe, Spanish comics. There were 13 issues starting in 1963 and published by Thorpe and Porter and, yes, I did buy the reprint rights from them but.... that was me being ripped off (I was young!)




Sunday, 8 November 2026

Let Me Take You On A Joyride ( No. 2 1946)


There were 5 issues in total and all published in 1946. Now, Bob Wilkin is only credited with issue number one -I've no idea about 2-5. The first issue is listed as "NN" -"No number". I'm guessing Wilkin must have worked on the others -the proof is here!
Never seen this particular comic before so it's a real find. By the art style I'm guessing this is Wilkin of seaside postcard fame?

I'm hoping to get more info on him as well as, I hope, a photo, for the Golden Age blog and the Archives Yahoo group.

And that's about all I know!!


















An Early UK Time Traveller: Bring 'Em Back Hank! (Gerald Swan Comics)

 William A Ward



Friday, 6 November 2026

Jimmy Jingles Time Machine....Better Than "Jimmy Jingle Bells" I Suppose!

 

Jimmy Jingles Time Machine was another superbly drawn comic strip from Knockout -this sample from the issue dated 22ndAugust, 1942.  The artist is Eric Parker.  Now I know Parker's career spanned almost sixty years! 

I began writing up notes and I found a scribbled URL (normally I bookmark these things on the computer!) but it took me to a wonderful article on the artist by Norman Wright and David Ashford that I recommend!

http://friardale.co.uk/Ephemera/Book%20and%20Magazine%20Collector/218-Eric%20Parker-artist-May%202002.pdf

A question -Jimmy Jingles -a suitable character for "resurrection"?