Alan Moore Reflects on Marvelman

In an interview with Kurt Amacker at Mania, Alan Moore states that he is okay with Marvel reprinting his Marvelman:

After being initially informed by Neil [Gaiman]’s lawyer, I had to think about it for a couple of days. I decided that while I’m very happy for this book to get published—because that means money will finally go to Marvelman’s creator, Mick Anglo, and to his wife. […] I would probably rather that the work was published without my name on it, and that all of the money went to Mick.

This following up on the news that Marvel had acquired the rights to the book. Robot 6 has background on the whole affair, and Tim Callahan did a three-part series on it in “When Words Collide”: one, two, three.

Marvel To Publish Mick Anglo's Marvelman - And They Own It

Marvel To Publish Mick Anglo’s Marvelman - And They Own It

Rich Johnson:

As I teased yesterday, Marvel are to publish the Marvelman comic book. It’s been an up-to-the-wire deal, but Marvel have signed a contract with Emotiv, who are representing Marvelman creator Mick Anglo and will reprint the silver age comics published during the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties.

Naturally there are questions about the more recent-ish Marvelman/Miracleman run from Warrior Magazine and Eclipse Comic by Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Dez Skinn, Alan Davis, Chuck Austen, Rick Veitch, John Totleben, Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham that has been under extreme legal uncertainties since the series ended, mid-way into the latter creative team’s run.

I understand it is Marvel’s intent to publish that as well, and they are currently trying to contact every party involved to come to an agreement over any outstanding issues.

Here’s Newsarama’s piece on the backstory of Marvelman and the Alan Moore controversy, and Robot 6’s Marvelman 101.