Kid Miracleman

Kid Miracleman (originally Kid Marvelman) is a fictional British Golden Age comic book superhero, originally created by Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son in 1955, and debuting in Marvelman #102, dated July 10 of that year. The character was subsequently revived in 1982 by Alan Moore as an antagonist in Marvelman, published in the pages of the anthology Warrior. The series was continued from 1985 as Miracleman, with the character renamed Kid Miracleman as a result. Creation By 1955 Mick Anglo had been producing the successful Marvelman and Young Marvelman comics for London publisher L. Miller & Son for around 18 months, inspired by the Fawcett Publications Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr characters. While the third member of Fawcett's Marvel Family was Mary Marvel, Anglo instead opted to make the a new male addition. Alan Moore and Denis Gifford would later speculate that the comic's audience was primarily prepubescent boys who would not react well to a female character. Kid Marvelman debuted in the secondary strip of Marvelman #101, as the superhero identity of young boy Johnny Bates. The appearance was written by Anglo and drawn by Don Lawrence, who would illustrate the majority of the character's 1950s appearances. After a stint as a supporting feature in Marvelman, the character was span off into the new monthly title Marvelman Family, where the lead strip saw Kid Marvelman team up with Marvelman and Young Marvelman against various threats. Like his stablemates, Kid Marvelman's adventures began with the character already having his powers; unlike them, his origin was never related to readers. Instead a text box in his first appearance noting that Bates had been "appointed by Marvelman himself" was the only explanation given for how the character has been empowered.