Inside the Comic-Con International San Diego, the master of the House of Ideas, Joe Quesada, Marvel Comics announced it has bought the rights to the character of British origin Marvelman, which for several years was in limbo due to legal problems between those who claimed to have the publishing rights to the character (the problem is old and it has been mixed up names like Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane).
Marvelman owes its fame largely to Alan Moore, who in the early 80's gave the character the treatment "darker" in those days was a novelty (and eventually give way to birth rate graphic novels Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns). At the time, the publication in America Marvelman stories saw the name change of the Miracleman character, because the same Marvel Comics opposed to using the original name.
More than 20 years ago Marvel Marvelman's rights, which were purchased the creator of the character Mick Anglo.
I think is excellent news that we can see the character back stories, more so on the understanding that are already handling some creative team names for the new stories, names with a heavy historical character (No. Alan Moore has not been mentioned yet ....). The news will be fantastic if:
a) The editorial circumvents any legal problem to reprint previously published material (from Histri classic stage through to Moore and Neil Gaiman) and
b) The editorial exploit the license in a dignified manner, with creative teams to help to magnify the character's mythology. Otherwise, there will soon be served to Marvelman has managed to escape from legal limbo.
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