Editing Miracleman (character) (section)

==Fictional character biography==
===Original===
Having discovered the keyword to the universe through his experiments, [[Mississippi]]-based astro-scientist Guntag Barghelt travels the world searching for a worthy recipient of this power. After young Micky Moran first attempts to return a [[Dime (United States coin)|dime]] Barghelt dropped and then defends the scientist from a trio of hoodlums, the scientist takes the youth to his laboratory. There further tests reveal Micky has absolute integrity and a well-defined discernment of good and evil, and treats him in his atomic machine. Micky is granted the power to turn into the superpowered Marvelman whenever he speaks the keyword "Kimota". After Marvelman thwarts an attempt by the villainous Herman Schwein to capture Barghelt's notes, the scientist withdraws to an [[asteroid]] in outer space, knowing Marvelman will protect good on Earth.<ref name=MM65>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#65|story=The Birth of Marvelman|date=13 November 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> Micky works for the ''Daily Bugle'' newspaper as a copyboy and keeps his superhero identity secret from the world while using his power to protect the innocent. To help him fight evil, Marvelman would later call on the scientist again when impressed by the courage of messenger boy Dicky Dauntless, and calls up Barghelt once again. The scientist gives Dicky an elixir that allows him to transform into Young Marvelman, who would become Marvelman's ally in the fight against evil.<ref name=YM64>{{cite comic|title=Young Marvelman|issue=#64|date=6 November 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|story=How Dicky Dauntless Became Young Marvelman|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|}}</ref> Marvelman later selected another youth, Johnny Bates, who was granted the ability to become Kid Marvelman.<ref name=MM102>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#102|date=30 July 1955|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|story=Introducing Kid Marvelman|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]}}</ref>

Among his many victories, Marvelman prevented Boromanian spy Balco from using the experimental XB999 [[Nuclear weapons delivery|atomic bomber]] aircraft against [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]],<ref name=MM025a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#25|story=Marvelman and the Atomic Bomber|date=3 February 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> prevented crooks from poisoning Oklabama's water supply with [[radium]],<ref name=MM025>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#25|story=Marvelman and the Stolen Radium|date=3 February 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> and foiled an attempt by Professor Gargunza to use memory-loss gas on the world.<ref name=MM026>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#26|story=Marvelman and the Lost-Memory Gas|date=10 February 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> Marvelman also crossed paths with [[mad scientist]] Dr. Gargunza, thwarting his plan to use animated skeletons to intimidate a judge.<ref name=MM027z>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#27|story=Marvelman and the Skeletons in the Cupboard|date=17 February 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> Gargunza would however return with numerous other amoral plans, which Marvelman again defeated.<ref name=MM033>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#33|story=Marvelman and the Super Heat Wave|date=31 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref><ref name=MMGGM>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|story=Marvelman and the Great Gargunza Mystery|issue=#72-77|date=1 January to 5 February 1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref><ref name=MM159>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#159|story=Marvelman and the Stolen Kimota|date=1 September 1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|}}</ref><ref name=MMA56a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Gargunza's All Bad|date=1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MMA5b>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Double Trouble|date=1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MM222>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#222|story=Marvelman and the Acid Vapour|date=16 November 1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|}}</ref><ref name=MMA57>{{cite comic|title=The Marvelman Annual|story=Marvelman and the Space Dustmen|date=1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MMA57a>{{cite comic|title=The Marvelman Annual|story=Gargunza's Voodoo Doll|date=1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MMA57d>{{cite comic|title=The Marvelman Annual|story=Gargunza's Atomic Suit|date=1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MM235>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#235|story=Magnetised Marvelman|date=15 February 1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|}}</ref><ref name=MM252>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#252|story=Coal in Space|date=13 June 1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|}}</ref><ref name=MMA58a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Gargunza Goes Straight|date=1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MMA59c>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Pipe Dream|date=1959|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref><ref name=MMA60>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Marvelman Becomes a Jinx|date=1960|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref>

Other escapades Marvelman was involved in included preventing Boromanian attempts to sabotage Professor Jowik's new mega[[bathysphere]];<ref name=MM027>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#27|story=Marvelman Counters Sabotage|date=24 February 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> stopping the [[ice cream]]-crazed [[Yeti|Abominable Snowman]] and his [[Snowman]] minions;<ref name=MM030>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#30|story=Marvelman and the Abominable Snowman|date=10 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref> defeating super-computer the Electronic Brain,;<ref name=MM029>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#29|story=Marvelman and the Electronic Brain|date=3 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> foiling a Boromanian plot to use scientist Doctor Ramado's miniaturised [[hydrogen bomb]] to blow up a [[table tennis]] tournament;<ref name=MM031>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#31|story=Marvelman and the Miniature Bomb Plot|date=17 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> saving oblivious astronaut Professor Swivelhead from his own oblivious behaviour;<ref name=MM031b>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#31|story=Marvelman and the Absent-Minded Spaceman|date=17 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[James Bleach|Bleach, James]]}}</ref> clearing his name after [[circus]] [[strongman]] the Great Anvello framed him as a criminal;<ref name=MM032a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#32|story=Marvelman and the Flase Marvelman|date=24 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> defeating scientist Cuprini's evil mirror image version of himself;<ref name=MM032>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#32|story=Marvelman and the Stolen Reflections|date=24 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> preventing destruction of a [[United States Navy]] squadron by a two-headed [[kraken]];<ref name=MM033b>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#33|story=Marvelman and the Kraken|date=31 March 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[James Bleach|Bleach, James]]}}</ref> dealing with an epidemic of [[insomnia]] brought on by the King of the Land of Nod sulking;<ref name=MM034b>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#34|story=Marvelman and the Land of Nod|date=7 April 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> using a demonstration of his formidable powers to cause [[Martian]] War Lords to abort a planned invasion of Earth;<ref name=MM034>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#34|story=Marvelman and the Martian Menace|date=7 April 1954|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[James Bleach|Bleach, James]]}}</ref> stopping jealous electrical genius Austin Amps and his attempts to sabotage rival Oswald Ohms' all-electric town Wattingham;<ref name=MM096a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#96|story=Marvelman Combats the Electric Terror|date=18 June 1955|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> 
travelling back to [[1588]] and helping [[Royal Navy]] Captain Farnaby warn [[England]] about the [[Spanish Armada]];<ref name=MM096>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#96|story=Marvelman and the Spanish Armada|date=18 June 1955|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> ending the crime spree of Professor Coisson's Marvelman II, a robot double of the hero;<ref name=MM168>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#168|story=Marvelman and the Robot Double|date=3 November 1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> foiling the attempt of unlicensed [[dentist]] Mr. Nook to use misery gas in revenge for being exposed as a quack by Moran;<ref name=MMA56>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Marvelman and the Misery Gas|date=1956|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref> putting an end to [[Nazi]] Otto Gruber's attempt to create a [[Fourth Reich]];<ref name=MM228>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#228|story=Marvelman and the Shadow of the Swastika|date=28 December 1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Norman Light|Light, Norman]]}}</ref> beating wizard Wizzo the Wizard and his mirror-henchman namlevraM;<ref name=MMA57c>{{cite comic|title=The Marvelman Annual|story=Marvelman Fights Marvelman|date=1957|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref> capturing embezzler Charles Crank despite his attempts to hide out on the [[Moon]]<ref name=MM268-269>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#268-269|story=Marvelman and the Moon Venturer|date=27 September - 4 October 1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref>}; thwarting the attempts of Menzari [[Motorsport|driver]] Heinz Vifter to beat rival Nevady driver Micky Desmond to the Golden Wheel via sabotage;<ref name=MM268a>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#268|story=Marvelman and the Ace Drivers|date=4 October 1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref>
exposing [[pickpocketing]] [[clown]]s from a travelling circus;<ref name=MM268>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman|issue=#268|story=The Circus Comes to Town|date=4 October 1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref> forestalling an invasion from underground hat-wearing giant [[ant]]s;<ref name=MMA58>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Giant Ant Plots to Rule Earth|date=1958|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]}}</ref> undoing disgruntled [[prop]] manager Eddie Gay's attempts to sabotage a [[Documentary film|documentary]] made by Peakpoint Films;<ref name=MMA59b>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Marvelman - Stuntman|date=1959|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref>
uncovering [[cargo cult]]-leading machine Klashna;<ref name=MMA59q>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Evil Monster of a Machine|date=1959|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref>
and halting elderly bad-luck projecting nuisance Irwin M. Trouble<ref name=MMA60c>{{cite comic|title=Marvelman Annual|story=Troublesome Mr. I.M. Trouble|date=1960|publisher=[[L. Miller & Son]]}}</ref>

He would also team up with Young Marvelman and Kid Marvelman as the Marvelman Family to face threats such as Garrer and his army of time-travelling renegades;<ref name=MF01>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Invaders from the Future|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#1|date=October 1956| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]}}</ref> a combined alliance of Marvelman's arch-enemy Doctor Gargunza and his nephew, Young Marvelman rogue Young Gargunza;<ref name=MF02>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#2|date=November 1956| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Shadow Stealers}}</ref> the King of Vegetableland;<ref name=MF03>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#4|date=February 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Giant Marrow}}</ref> invaders from the planet Vardica;<ref name=MF04>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#4|date=March 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Hollow Planet}}</ref> would-be dictator Professor Batts and his speech-scramber;<ref name=MF08>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#8|date=July 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Speech Scrambler}}</ref> a crime boss intent on sinking Pacific City below the ocean;<ref name=MF09>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#9|date=August 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the City Under the Sea}}</ref> the cruel, slave-driving King Snop of [[Atlantis]] (which the story revealed would eventually become [[Australia]]);<ref name=MF10>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#10|date=September 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and the Atlantis Fable}}</ref> an attempt by Gargunza to declare himself King of the Universe;<ref name=MF14>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#14|date=March 1958| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Marvelman Family and King Gargunza}}</ref> cruel 14th century knight Simon de Carton (clearing the name of [[Amadís de Gaula|Amadis of Gaul]] in the process);<ref name=MF18>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#18|date=July 1958| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=Amadis of Gaul}}</ref> a monster accidentally collected from the planet Droon;<ref name=MF29>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Norman Light|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}}</ref> and Professor Wosmine's shrinking ray<ref name=MF30>{{Cite comic|writer=[[Mick Anglo|Anglo, Mick]]|artist=[[Don Lawrence|Lawrence, Don]]|title=Marvelman Family|issue=#30|date=August 1957| publisher=[[L. Miller & Son, Ltd.]]|story=The Mighty Marvelman Family and 'Jungle Fury'}}</ref>

===Revival===

==== Book One: 'A Dream Of Flying' - written by Alan Moore ====
Two decades later, Mike Moran is a middle-aged man working as a freelance journalist and happily married to Liz, but he is suffering from mid-life crisis and is plagued by headaches. He remembers nothing of his adventures as Miracleman, but has recurring dreams of flying and of the terrible fate that apparently befell the Miracleman family when they were caught in a nuclear explosion.

When a peaceful protest at an atomic power station is overtaken by terrorists, Moran is present and is taken hostage. In the throes of a migraine - he sees the ‘magic word’ (that has eluded him for decades but haunts his dreams) written on a glass door: ‘Kimota’. When he speaks this aloud he transforms into Miracleman, incapacitates the terrorists and flies away.

Miracleman returns home to a startled Liz and attempts to explain his newly-remembered backstory. Liz is initially skeptical but eventually convinced, and they spend the night together.

Miracleman’s appearance is noticed by Johnny Bates, who has become a very successful international businessman in the intervening decades. Bates invites Mike and Liz to his offices, and though they are initially convinced by his story Mike confronts Bates with his suspicions that he has become corrupted by his powers. These suspicions are confirmed when Kid Miracleman attacks. Transforming into Miracleman, Moran attempts to fight Kid Miracleman but is overpowered and only spared by Bates mistakenly speaking his ‘magic word’ and transforming back into a young boy. Miracleman and Liz escape, leaving the young Johnny Bates in the hands of the authorities.

As a result of their single night together, Liz becomes pregnant with Miracleman’s child, an event that fuels Mike Moran’s feelings of inadequacy in comparison to his superhuman alter-ego.

The ‘Spookshow’, a government agency, recruits Evelyn Cream to kill Moran. Cream instead kidnaps Moran and they agree to work together to discover Miracleman’s real origins. This leads them to a hidden bunker in the countryside where Miracleman encounters various ineffectual traps and a deranged superhuman called Big Ben, who he subdues effortlessly.

Once inside the bunker, Miracleman is confronted with the true nature of his past: he is the result of an experimental program by the British government to create superhumans as an escalation of the Cold War arms race. The program is derived from alien technology discovered in the 1950s and adapted and overseen by Dr Emil Gargunza, an ex-Nazi scientist given shelter by the British government. It is revealed that his entire past has been a virtual reality fiction created to subdue him and the rest of the Miracleman Family and make them pliable as super-weapons. Enraged by this, Miracleman destroys much of the bunker and, once calmed by Cream, returns home.

==== Book Two: 'The Red King Syndrome' - Written By Alan Moore ====
As the birth of her and Miracleman’s child grows near Liz is kidnapped by Gargunza, now living in Paraguay, where Liz is taken. Whilst she is held captive Gargunza relates to her his life story, telling of how he worked on the Zarathustra Project, adapting the technology of a crashed spaceship and creating the Miracleman Family. He hopes to transfer his consciousness into the body of Miracleman’s child, thus achieving immortality.

Miracleman and Cream travel to Paraguay and confront Gargunza. However, Gargunza has implanted another ‘magic word’ which changes Miracleman back into a defenceless Mike Moran for an hour. He then sets his ‘Miracledog’ - a monstrous, genetically altered super-animal - on Moran and Cream. Cream is killed and Moran is maimed but he remembers the ‘magic word’ Gargunza used on the dog and it reverts back to its harmless original form, whereupon Moran kills it and evades Gargunza’s mercenaries until such time as he can change back to Miracleman. When he does, he slaughters Gargunza’s guards, kills Gargunza and rescues Liz who then gives birth to a daughter, Winter - who can already speak.

Back in England, domestic tensions between Mike and Liz are exacerbated by Liz’s mood swings - which she suspects are caused by Winter, who is developing at an unusually accelerated rate. Meanwhile two alien agents are tracking Moran, but are themselves being followed by a mystery woman.

==== Book Three: 'Olympus' - Written By Alan Moore ====
The aliens - of the race The Qys - attack Moran, who becomes Miracleman and attempts to fight them off, but the aliens are able to change bodies in a manner similar to Moran / Miracleman himself and easily defeat him. Upon learning of Winter’s existence, they turn their attention to Liz but are thwarted by the mystery woman, who reveals herself to be Avril Lear - Miraclewoman - and tells the story of her past as another of Gargunza’s experiments.

The Qys take Miracleman and Miraclewoman to their homeworld where the future of the Miracleman Family - and Earth itself - is discussed by the ambassadors of the Qys and their mortal enemies the Warpsmiths. Miraclewoman convinces the assembly that Earth should be a neutral world wherein the two cultures can work together and hopefully achieve some form of understanding.

After returning to Earth Miracleman finds himself growing apart from his human ties as Liz leaves him and Winter [who is physically a small child but already beyond even Miracleman himself in terms of mental development] leaves Earth to find and learn from The Qys.

Mike Moran, his life turned upside down, commits a form of suicide by trekking into the wilderness and leaving a small memorial for himself to find when he transforms for a last time into Miracleman. Miracleman understands this gesture and never returns to his human form again.

With the help of Qys and Warpsmith agents including Aza Chorn, the initial alien/superhuman project is to gather together all the remaining superhumans on Earth and work in secret to begin to nudge Earth towards a more enlightened path. This is cut short, however, by the sudden re-emergence of Kid Miracleman. 

Johnny Bates, who has been kept at a children’s home in England, has been attempting to keep his alter-ego at bay; but the brutal abuse he suffers at the hands of fellow inmates forces him to transform into a vengeful Kid Miracleman, who then destroys half of London in Miracleman’s temporary absence and kills forty thousand people. When he is discovered, a battle ensues where Miracleman and his cohorts - with apparently little regard for human life - attempt to subdue him.

Kid Miracleman is only eventually defeated by a dying Aza Chorn and, mortally wounded, transforms back to Johnny Bates. Miracleman then kills Bates to prevent him ever becoming Kid Miracleman again. In the ruins of London, surrounded by thousands of dead and dying, Miracleman now realises the world can never be the same. 

He and Miraclewoman reshape the world into a utopia. All the practical ills of human society are cured, and the offer of superhuman powers and children is gradually taken up by a humanity who regard the Miracleman Family as gods. The pantheon of new gods build Olympus, a huge temple in the ruins of Central London where they are worshipped by human acolytes. Despite having created a utopia, Miracleman is haunted by Liz’s accusation that he has lost touch with his humanity.

==== Books Four and Five: 'The Golden Age' & 'The Silver Age' - Written By Neil Gaiman with Mark Buckingham ====
After a series of short stories detailing the effects of this new society on ordinary humans and supporting characters from the series ['The Golden Age'], the main story picks up again in the year 2001 ['The Silver Age'], where Young Miracleman - Dickie Dauntless - is revived but has a great deal of trouble adjusting to the new world he finds himself in.

Miraclewoman convinces Miracleman that Dauntless is infatuated with him, and Miracleman attempts to kiss him to assuage his frustrations. This shocks and enrages Dauntless, whose attitudes towards sexuality and the world in general are still very much those of the 1950s. He leaves Olympus to discover himself in the changed world of 2001. Landing in the Himalaya mountains, a bewildered Dauntless ends up meeting Bill Caxton (Mister Master), the first superhuman created by Miracleman and also the only to ever give up his powers. Inspired by this experience, and accompanied by the somewhat directionless but enhanced Meta-Maid, Dauntless finds the orphanage where he grew up prior to being abducted by Gargunza. In an extended flashback, Dauntless remembers the physical and mental abuse he experienced before changing back to his Young Miracleman form and vowing to confront Miracleman. 

In the finale of this series, Miracleman meets Young Miracleman who after rebuking his options and criticising this present world states "I'm going to be your adversary. Not now. But One Day. I'm going to be the opposition. If this is Eden, I'm going to be the Serpent.". Ultimately agreeing to these terms, Miracleman lets Young Miracleman leave where he starts meditating for prolonged periods and begins a social movement. Under Miraclewoman's encouragement, Miracleman unofficially cedes Australia for Young Miracleman. In the final panels of the series, Young Miracleman hears the voice from Kid Miracleman from infra-space asking to be let out.

The series is to be concluded in Book 6, The Dark Age.