Young Miracleman
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| character_name = Young Miracleman
| image = MiraclemanSilverAge_3.jpg
| caption = Young Miracleman on the cover of Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age #3, by David Aja
| debut = Young Marvelman #25
| alter_ego = Richard "Dicky" Dauntless
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| species = Human
| alliances = Miracleman Family (1954–1963)
| partners = Miracleman
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| powers = Flight, strength, & durability via forcefield
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| startyr = 1954
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| creators = Mick Anglo
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Young Miracleman (originally Young Marvelman) is a fictional British Golden Age comic book superhero, originally created by Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son in 1954, and debuting in Young Marvelman #25, dated 3 February of that year as a replacement for Fawcett Publications' Captain Marvel Jr., whose civilian name is Richard "Dicky" Dauntless. A comic based on his adventures ran for 345 issues until 1963.
The character was subsequently revived in 1982 by Alan Moore as a supporting character in Marvelman. The series was continued from 1985 as Miracleman, with the character renamed Young Miracleman as a result.
Creation
Young Marvelman was created by Mick Anglo in 1954 on request from Len Miller of L. Miller & Son, Ltd. The publisher had been producing comics starring Captain Marvel Jr., but the supply of material was cut short when Fawcett Publications cancelled the title in response to legal action from DC Comics. Anglo thus converted the character into Young Marvelman as a junior counterpart to Marvelman, the similarly reinvented Captain Marvel.{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |date=2010 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=The Man Behind Miracleman}} Freddie Freeman became the similarly alliterative Dicky Dauntless; however Dauntless did not retain Freeman's injuries and was instead a messenger boy. For the character's costume Anglo effectively exchanged Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr's colour schemes and made both blond, eliminating the character's cloaks to simplify drawing the heroes. Young Marvelman did however retain Junior's distinctive kiss curl, and still changed form by calling the name of his mentor, now Marvelman. While both characters debuted at the same time, Young Marvelman's origin (revealed in Young Marvelman #64) established that Marvelman was already active in their fictional shared universe before Dauntless gained his powers.{{Cite comic|writer=Wilson, Derek|title=Marvelman Classic|issue= Volume 1|date=19 January 2017| publisher=Marvel Comics|story=The Marvelman Story}}
The new character first appeared in Young Marvelman #25, and would continue to star in the series until it ended with #370. Along the way the character also starred in annuals, albums and a third series named Marvelman Family that featured solo adventures for both Young Marvelman and Marvelman, alongside a feature strip where they would both team up with a third character, Kid Marvelman.{{cite book |last=Murray |first=Chris |date=2017 |title=The British Superhero |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781496807380}} A Young Marvelman fan club was also run from the pages of the magazine.
Due to Anglo twice revisiting the Captain Marvel template for other works, two later versions of the character as a younger sidekick exist – Miracle Jr, based on redrawn Young Marvelman material, was an ally of Captain Miracle., while Miracle Man would gain the juvenile partner Miracle Boy, later known as Supercoat{{cite book|last=Morris|first=Jon |date=2015|title=The League of Regrettable Superheroes| publisher=Quirk Books |isbn=9781594747830}}
In the revival, the character is killed before the events of the main narrative and throughout Moore's run only appears in dream sequences, flashbacks and occasionally post-mortem. This did include a 6-page solo strip by Moore and artist John Ridgway, set in 1957.{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Ridgway, John|story=Young Marvelman 1957|title=Warrior|issue=#12|date=August 1983| publisher=Quality Communications}} In his proposal for the strip, Moore toyed with renaming Dauntless as Richard Dawson but instead retained the original name.{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=Alan Moore's Original Proposal}} Moore's successor Neil Gaiman resurrected Young Miracleman at the conclusion of his first story arc, "The Golden Age". Young Miracleman joined the main cast as one of the lead characters for the second, The Silver Age, with editor Valerie Jones noting to Amazing Heroes that the character allowed "a further exploration of the morality of Miracleman's decisions, embodied in a distraught person from his past, one who cannot adjust to the utopia different from his last memory".{{cite magazine |date=September 1991|title=Coming from Eclipse|magazine=Amazing Heroes |publisher=Fantagraphics|number=194}} However Eclipse went bankrupt two issues into the storyline, and Miracleman went into a long hiatus while legal issues surrounding the characters were resolved. After this was clarified, Mick Anglo-era Young Marvelman strips were printed by Marvel Comics in the Marvelman: Family's Finest limited series in 2010 and the short-lived Young Marvelman Classic archive volumes. Following further legal clarification, Marvel began reprinting the revival material in 2014, using the Young Miracleman name for the character.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/nycc-marvel-reprint-classic-alan-648083 |title=NYCC: Marvel to Reprint Classic Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman 'Miracleman' |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2011-11-17 |access-date=2013-10-15}}
After several delays, Gaiman and Buckingham were finally able to continue the long-awaited Silver Age storyline in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/gaiman-and-buckinghams-the-silver-age-miracleman-story-will-finally-be-completed-at-marvel/|website=GamesRadar+|title=Young Miracleman returns in Gaiman and Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1 preview}} Logan Dalton compared Young Miracleman to "one of the kids from Chronicles of Narnia" due to his dated attitudes while reviewing the first issue of the series.{{cite web|url=https://graphicpolicy.com/2022/10/23/review-miracleman-the-silver-age-1/|website=Graphic Policy|title=Review: Miracleman: The Silver Age #1}} Writing for Bleeding Cool, Rich Johnston expressed excitement that after 30 years the meaning of scenes featuring Young Miracleman from Miracleman #24 might be clarified.{{cite web|url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/weve-waited-30-years-for-miracleman-to-have-the-talk-one-month-left/|title=We've Waited 30 Years For Miracleman To Have The Talk- One Month Left|website=Bleeding Cool}} Boing Boing also noted the high level of anticipation the continuation of the story had received.{{cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2022/12/29/after-nearly-30-years-theres-finally-a-new-issue-of-miracleman-by-neil-gaiman.html|website=Boing Boing|title=After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman}} Both Jamie Lovett of ComicBook.com{{cite web|url=https://comicbook.com/comics/amp/news/miracleman-the-silver-age-3-review-marvel-comics-neil-gaiman-mark-buckingham/|website=ComicBook.com|title=Miracleman: The Silver Age #3 Review: A Potent Metafictional Pilgrimage Through the Superhero Experience}} and Matthew Peterson of Major Spoilers{{cite web|url=https://majorspoilers.com/2023/02/09/miracleman-the-silver-age-4-review/|website=Major Spoilers|title=Miracleman: The Silver Age #4 Review}} noted the metafictional storytelling allowed by the Young Miracleman character.
Fictional character biography
=Original=
Teenager Dicky Dauntless is a Bullaho-based messenger boy working for the Transatlantic Messenger Service. Taking a break at the Indian Springs Wishing Well he comes across his hero Marvelman, who is exhausted from his busy crimefighting career. Eager to help, Dicky offers to deliver a warning to the industrialist Hiram Steele, who has been targeted by the rival Strong Steps Corporation. When he arrives Steele is already under attack from SSC goons but Dauntless is able to keep them busy until Marvelman arrives. Unable to spare the time to protect Steele due to being needed elsewhere and impressed by Dicky's bravery, Marvelman calls up astro-scientist Guntag Borghelm, who gives Dicky a concoction. After drinking it, calling "Marvelman" allows him to transform into the superpowered Young Marvelman.{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#64|date=6 November 1954|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=How Dicky Dauntless Became Young Marvelman|}} Often his delivery work allowed Dicky to stumble across nefarious activities which he would foil after summoning up his alter ego, though sometimes he responded to events reported in the Daily Bugle newspaper (where Marvelman's alter ego Micky Moran worked as a copyboy) or brought to his attention by radio.
He then embarks on a long and successful crimefighting career of his own, battling both earthly threats such as the mad scientist Young Gargunza, nephew of Marvelman's archenemy Dr. Gargunza{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#100|date=16 July 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and Young Gargunza}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#331|date=19 December 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Mighty Machine}} and alien menaces including the powerful Young Nastyman, a youth named Pontag from the planet Victo who could gain superpowers thanks to an elixir given to him by the curmudgeonly hermit Nastyman,{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#57|date=18 September 1954|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman Meets Young Nastyman}} and later returning on further occasions.{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#72|date=1 January 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Return of Young Nastyman}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#72|date=23 Aptril 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and Young Nastyman again...}} On one occasion both Young Gargunza and Young Nastyman worked together, but Young Marvelman was still able to emerge victorious.{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#200|date=15 June 1957|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Evil Pair}}
Other adventures saw The Mightiest Boy in the Universe prevent millionaire Hiram Z. Batz from stealing the world's monuments;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#44|date=19 June 1954|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Stolen Monuments}}
save the Sultan of Khazistan from assassination;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#44|date=19 June 1954|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Assassins}}
stop the elven Zugs from poisoning the waters of Luxenheim Health Spa;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#93|date=28 May 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Health Resort}}
imprison a ring of criminals fixing baseball and hockey games with drugged hot dogs;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#96|date=18 June 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Racket}}
liberate Prince Plar of Plax to prevent the Plaxians from invading Earth under the hawkish Zora;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#101|date=23 July 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Flying Saucer Mystery}}
recovering a bottomless jug of milk;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#101|date=23 July 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Wonder Jug}}
break up a gang of kidnapping Argentine gauchos;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#102|date=30 July 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman in the Argentine}}
rescue explorers from bandits in Kurdistan;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#102|date=30 July 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Adventurers}}
retrieve a stolen magic carpet from Mahrud the Unwashed in Damascus;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#103|date=6 August 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Magic Carpet}}
dispose of a large amount of nuclear bombs when Senor Crepi attempts to steal them from America;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#103|date=6 August 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Stolen Bombs}}
aiding the police in capturing on-the-lam gangster Big Spud;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#103|date=20 August 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman in Brighton}}
deal with the dervish Abu Halfa when he attempted to convince the people of Sudan he was the Mahdi;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#106|date=27 August 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Madhi}}
recapture escaped prisoners for the Foreign Legion in colonial Ligeria;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#106|date=27 August 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the King of Ligeria}}
coercing his TMS boss Mr. Snarl into reinstating Dauntless and his chums by forcing him to run a gang of Mexican bandits and using his subsequent crimes as leverage;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#107|date=3 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Taming of Mr. Snarl}}
free explorer Foster Thorne from slavers;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#107|date=3 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Cave of Ali Baba}}
prevent foreign agent Varsoff from kidnapping atomic genius Professor Nuklear;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#108|date=10 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman versus ?}}
transport a preserved woolly mammoth found near the North Pole;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#108|date=10 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Polar Expedition}}
defeating Dr. Nitro's giant ants;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#108|date=10 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Mad Doctor}}
track down the Jawal Rifles' missing goat mascot Pogo;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#109|date=17 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Regimental Mascot}}
defeating the plotting lesser Olympian gods Hiatus and Pathygus;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#109|date=17 September 1955|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Trouble in Arcady}}
foil attempts by foreign agents to steal the new X1000 rocket;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#203|date=6 July 1957|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the H-1000}}
dealing with unscrupulous Canadian loggers];{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#275|date=24 November 1958|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=}}
travel back in time to free a sheriff from the Buller Gang{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#275|date=24 November 1958|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Way Out West}} and serve in the Pacific theater of World War II;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#291|date=14 March 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Submarine Mystery}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#300|date=16 May 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Treachery in the Pacific}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#303|date=6 June 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Navy Speedboat}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#328|date=28 November 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Kamikaze!}}{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#331|date=19 December 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Silent Peril}}
return a vast collection of ships accrued by modern-day pirates;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#279|date=20 December 1958|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=}}
dream he was a Chinese boy enslaved by Mongols;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#283|date=17 January 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Mongols}}
locate survivors of a plane crash in the Brazilian jungle;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#284|date=24 January 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Down in the Jungle}}
prevent disaster from ruining a sacred city in Tibet;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#284|date=24 January 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Forbidden City}}
bail out a girl who thought she could be an astronaut;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#300|date=16 May 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Moon Rocket Stowaway}}
turn back an invasion by subterraneans;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#303|date=6 June 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Invasion from Under}}
recover genetically modified hybrid creatures intended as a response to public outcry over the use of animals in the Sputnik programme;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#309|date=18 July 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Nuclearsaurus}}
extract United States Secret Service agent Daniela Lanhart from Boromonia;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#312|date=8 August 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Missing Agent}}
clear up a misunderstanding that nearly led to an attack on Earth by the people of Udos;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#312|date=8 August 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Young Marvelman and the Moon of Doom|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Roy Parker}}
halt attempts by a faction of Bruto inhabitants to invade Earth;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#318|date=19 September 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Magnetic Storm}}
battle the murderous Nuclear Gnomes created by scientist Silas A. Woodkarver;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#318|date=19 September 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman Proudly Presents Pinheaddio featuring Silas A. Woodkarver & the Nuclear Gnomes}}
uncover a plot by Nazi holdout Karl Heilig to salvage a German atom bomb from the wreck of the battleship Blitzkrieg;{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#332|date=26 December 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=The Blitzkrieg Mystery}}
and defeat the huge Mongolian bandit Manola Khan.{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#332|date=26 December 1959|publisher=L. Miller & Son|story=Young Marvelman and the Mad Mongol}}
At times he would work with both Marvelman and new ally Kid Marvelman to stop evils such as Garrer and his army of time-travelling renegades.;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|story=Marvelman Family and the Invaders from the Future|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#1|date=October 1956| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.}} a combined alliance of Marvelman's arch-enemy Doctor Gargunza and his nephew, Young Marvelman rogue Young Gargunza;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#2|date=November 1956| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the Shadow Stealers}} the King of Vegetableland;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#4|date=February 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the Giant Marrow}} invaders from the planet Vardica;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#4|date=March 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the Hollow Planet}} would-be dictator Professor Batts and his speech-scramber;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#8|date=July 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the Speech Scrambler}} a crime boss intent on sinking Pacific City below the ocean;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#9|date=August 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the City Under the Sea}} the cruel, slave-driving King Snop of Atlantis (which the story revealed would eventually become Australia);{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#10|date=September 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and the Atlantis Fable}} an attempt by Gargunza to declare himself King of the Universe;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#14|date=March 1958| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Marvelman Family and King Gargunza}} cruel 14th century knight Simon de Carton (clearing the name of Amadis of Gaul in the process);{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#18|date=July 1958| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=Amadis of Gaul}} a monster accidentally collected from the planet Droon;{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Light, Norman|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#29|date=August 1959| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=The Mighty Marvelman Family and the Dragons of Great Droon}} and Professor Wosmine's shrinking ray.{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick|artist=Lawrence, Don|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#30|date=August 1957| publisher=L. Miller & Son, Ltd.|story=The Mighty Marvelman Family and 'Jungle Fury'}}
=Revival=
Richard "Dicky" Dauntless was the orphaned son of an RAF major. He was thus identified by Emil Gargunza and Sir Dennis Archer as a suitable candidate for Project Zarathustra, intelligence agency Spookshow's plan to create superhumans as a Cold War weapon. Dauntless was abducted and drugged before being cloned with Qys technology, a process that had recently been used on fellow kidnapped orphan Micky Moran. As such Young Miracleman was created as a superpowered duplicate of Dauntless and placed in infra-space, with the two bodies switching places when the change-word "Miracleman" was spoken. Dauntless was kept immersed in a complex series of dreams by Gargunza, which were actually a combination of training exercises and devices to keep the powerful superhumans under control., inspired by reading a Captain Marvel comic Miracleman and Young Miracleman were then joined by a third superhero, Kid Miracleman – actually another abducted orphan, Johnny Bates.
After the program was cancelled and Gargunza absconded with most of the research. Archer decided the Miracleman Family posed too much of a danger. In 1963 the trio were released into the world and lured into Earth's atmosphere, with their conditioning making them think they were investigating a device created by a fictional analogue of Gargunza, an archenemy from the artificial reality. In fact it was a nuclear device, which detonated when the Miracleman Family drew close. Young Miracleman was destroyed by the device and, as he instinctively called out for Miracleman, so was Dauntless. His disfigured human corpse remained in infraspace, where the Qys referred to it as "the exploded thing". When Spookshow recovered Young Nastyman's skeleton from Iceland, they misidentified it as the remains of Young Miracleman and stored it in the Project Zarathrusta bunker.
The next forty years revealed that both Miracleman and Kid Miracleman had survived the incident. With help from his consort Miraclewoman and the alien Qys and Warpsmith races, Miracleman defeats Kid Miracleman in a brutal battle in London and takes benevolent control of Earth. The planet became an advanced utopia and with the aid of Qys technology a probe was able to take cell samples from Dauntless' corpse in infraspace and build new bodies for him.
He awakens in 2003, where Miracleman tells him of his true origin and of Kid Miracleman's rampage, which Dauntless – who has retained the attitudes of 1950s British society – attempts to take on the chin but is devastated by. Young Miracleman is hailed as a legend, treatment he reacts to with polite bemusement. He keeps a schedule of appearances which largely involve flying down streets of major cities and making speeches to rapturous crowds. Meanwhile Miraclewoman, having long believed Young Miracleman has homosexual feelings for Miracleman, persuades the latter to make the newcomer feel loved by attempting to seduce him. However, when Miracleman attempts to kiss him, Young Miracleman reacts with distress, punches him and flees Olympus. He travels to the Himalayas, where he meets Jason Oakey and others making a pilgrimage to meet augmented hermit Caxton.
Powers and abilities
Young Miracleman can fly, has super-strength and is invulnerable thanks to the Qys technology used to create him. While he is destroyed by the Operation Dragonslayer payload this is partially due to being nearer than Miracleman and Kid Miracleman while also instinctively calling out to Miracleman, triggering his change. Despite his relative lack of experience upon his resurrection he is still capable of punching Miracleman through a wall.
Other versions
An alternate version of Young Marvelman, referred to only as Rick, is one of the heroes of Earth-238 that appears in the Captain Britain stories written by Moore and Alan Davis around the time of their work together on Marvelman. He is the lover of Linda McQuillan (the superhero Captain UK) and ensures her escape to Earth-616 during the events of when the Fury massacres the heroes of their world. Rick is seemingly killed himself after Captain UK escapes.{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan|story=Rough Justice|title=The Daredevils|issue=#7|date=July 1983| publisher=Marvel UK}} However he is later resurrected by the sorceress Roma as a gesture of gratitude for Linda's heroism.{{Cite comic|writer=Davis, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan|story=Should Auld Acquaintance...|title=Captain Britain |volume=2|issue=#14|date=February 1986| publisher=Marvel UK}}
Notes
References
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{{Cite comic|writer=Anglo, Mick; Moore, Alan|artist=Lawrence, Don|story=Prologue – 1956|title=Miracleman|issue=#1|date= August 1985| publisher=Eclipse Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Leach, Garry|story=...a Dream of Flying|title=Warrior |issue=#1|date=March 1982| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Leach, Garry|story=(Untitled)|title=Warrior |issue=#2|date=April 1982| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Leach, Garry|story=When Johnny Comes Marching Home...|title=Warrior |issue=#3|date=July 1982| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan; Leach, Garry|story=Fallen Angels, Forgotten Thunder|title=Warrior |issue=#6|date=October 1982| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan|story=Zarathustra|title=Warrior |issue=#11|date=July 1983| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan|story=Saturday Morning Pictures|title=Marvelman Special|issue=#1|date=Summer 1984| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Davis, Alan|story=A Little Piece of Heaven|title=Warrior|issue=#20|date=July 1984| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Veitch, Rick|story=Mindgames|title=Miracleman|issue=#10|date=December 1986| publisher=Eclipse Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Ridgway, John|story=The Red King Syndrome|title=Warrior|issue=#17|date=January 1984| publisher=Quality Communications}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Totleben, John|story=Aphrodite|title=Miracleman|issue=#12|date=September 1987| publisher=Eclipse Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Moore, Alan|artist=Totleben, John|story=Olympus|title=Miracleman|issue=#16|date=December 1989| publisher=Eclipse Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil|artist=Buckingham, Mark|story=Retrieval|title=Miracleman|issue=#17–22|date=June 1990 – August 1991| publisher=Eclipse Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil|artist=Buckingham, Mark|story=The Secret Origin of Young Miracleman|title=Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age|issue=#1|date=December 2022| publisher=Marvel Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil|artist=Buckingham, Mark|story=When Titans Clash!|title=Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age|issue=#2|date=January 2023| publisher=Marvel Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil|artist=Buckingham, Mark|story=Trapped... in a World He Never Made!|title=Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age|issue=#3|date=February 2023| publisher=Marvel Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil|artist=Buckingham, Mark|story=An Alien Walks Among Us|title=Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age|issue=#4|date=March 2023| publisher=Marvel Comics}}
{{Cite comic|writer=Gaiman, Neil; Buckingham, Mark; Anglo, Mick|artist=Buckingham, Mark; Partlett, George|story=Why? Part One|title=Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age|issue=#4|date=March 2023| publisher=Marvel Comics}}
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Category:Eclipse Comics superheroes
Category:Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Category:Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength