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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Poisoned Chalice Part 7: A Warrior Stumbles
When Dez Skinn had started Warrior, he wanted the creators to own their own creations, which they all did, more or less. Marvelman was...
Poisoned Chalice Part 6: A Warrior is Born
Warrior took nearly a year from its original inception in the spring of 1981 to finally reaching the shelves in March 1982. The contents...
Poisoned Chalice Part 5: Prologue to Warrior
Born in Goole in Yorkshire on the 4th February 1951, by 1982 Derek ‘Dez’ Skinn already had a long and successful history working in...
Poisoned Chalice Part 4: Intermission – 1963 to 1982
In the nineteen-year gap between L Miller and Co Ltd's publication of Marvelman #370 in 1963 and Dez Skinn’s Quality Communications Ltd revitalisation of...
Poisoned Chalice Part 3: Marvelman Falls
Poisoned Chalice Part 3:
Marvelman Falls
The actual work on the Marvelman titles was done by various artists, and Mick Anglo goes into quite a bit...
Poisoned Chalice Part 2: Marvelman Rises
Poisoned Chalice Part 2:
Marvelman - The Miller Years I
If American comics can be said to have begun with the publication of Famous Funnies: A...
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