Man of Miracles

The Man of Miracles (also known as Mother of Existence or M.O.M. for short) is a fictional, ageless, mysterious, genderless, super-being, featured in the Spawn comic book series. Creation Spawn creator Todd McFarlane purchased the assets of the defunct Eclipse Comics at a 1996 liquidation auction, believing it included the rights to the character Miracleman. Miracleman writer Neil Gaiman began legal action while McFarlane remained sure he owned the character, and produced Miracleman merchandise. A reimagined Mike Moran, now a principled journalist at the New York Daily Times, was added to the supporting cast of Hellspawn, a dark spin-off title of Spawn, in February 2001. Artist Ashley Wood released teaser images of Miracleman ahead of his planned debut in Hellspawn #12. However, Wood left the book after Hellspawn #11 and the storyline was abandoned when Gaiman sued McFarlane in 2002. In-universe, the appearances were subsequently ascribed to the character Man of Miracles, whose aspect is shaped by the perceptions of others. The two characters of the pre-existing Mother of Existence and Man of Miracles were then combined into one. According to a retcon, they were supposed to always have been the same being. Due to Resurrection and #250 the character and the arcs that feature him were retconned from the series. Spawn #297 confirmed that Man of Miracles still exists. In the King Spawn series Man of Miracles is retconned into being simply Gaia. Fictional character biography