Poisoned Chalice’s Half-Holiday
Although I’m very nearly at the end of it, I’m temporarily putting Poisoned Chalice on hold. Let me explain...
Soon after I seriously began writing Poisoned Chalice as an actual book, which was at some...
Poisoned Chalice Part 16: Who Own Marvelman? Part II
At this point I want to re-examine Mick Anglo’s part in the creation of Marvelman. To quite an extent Anglo’s involvement in this has become mythologised, and I want to try to find a...
Poisoned Chalice Part 15: Who Owns Marvelman? Part I
So, who owns Marvelman? This is a question I’ve been looking for the answer to for quite a few years now, and I’m still not sure if I actually know that answer. I have...
Poisoned Chalice Part 14.1: Updates and Clarifications on Marvelman
Before I get around to doing a round-up of all the previous posts, and attempt to squeeze meaning out of it all, I just want to update a few things, and clarify a few...
Poisoned Chalice Part 14: Back to Marvelman
In Prince of Stories, towards the end of the chapter on Neil Gaiman’s involvement with Miracleman, there are two paragraphs that say,
According to Gaiman, ‘Actually, it looks as if the rights to Marvelman were...
Poisoned Chalice Part 13: More Angela, More Courtrooms, and Much More Todd
Despite having lost both the original Angela court case with Neil Gaiman in 2002 and then the appeal in 2004, Todd McFarlane (that's him on the right) still seemed to believe that he at...
Poisoned Chalice Part 12: All About Angela
In February 1992 Todd McFarlane, along with six others, announced the founding of Image Comics, after having failed to negotiate more favourable terms for themselves at Marvel Comics. Whilce Portacio left right at the...
Poisoned Chalice Part 11: The Twilight of Eclipse
Although Alan Moore had finished with Miracleman, it wasn’t the end of the character, or the comic. Knowing he was nearing the end of his story, Moore had rung up Neil Gaiman and asked...
Poisoned Chalice Part 10: Alan Moore at Eclipse
The original contract between Quality Communications Ltd and Eclipse Comics called for Quality to provide enough material for twelve issues, but this ran into trouble, as Dez Skinn explained in Speakeasy #57:
According to our...
Poisoned Chalice Part 9: The Dawn of Eclipse
Although Marvelman last appeared in Warrior #21 in August 1984, and the last issue of the magazine, #26, appeared in February 1985, this wasn’t the end of the Marvelman strip.
From the beginning Dez Skinn...
Poison Chalice Interlude: 1953 – 1985 Roundup and Some Notes on Copyright
So far, this history of Marvelman - more correctly called Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman - has taken nine chapters - well, eight chapters plus an introduction -...
Poisoned Chalice Part 8: A Warrior Falls
By 1984, things were starting to fall apart at Warrior.
Alan Moore's Marvelman is threatened by Dez Skinn's Big BenNot only were Alan Moore and Dez Skinn finding it more and more difficult to work...
