Warning: The Golden Age is a direct sequel to Alan Moore's original Miracleman stories and unmarked Late Arrival Spoilers for those comics appear on this page.
Miracleman: The Golden Age is a comic storyline by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham, the first part of their Miracleman trilogy.
The trilogy as a whole is a sequel to Alan Moore's run on Miracleman, which ended with the titular superhuman transforming Earth into a new utopia. The Golden Age is a Rotating Protagonist arc examining the lives of different people within Miracleman's new utopia.
Miracleman and Miraclewoman do appear, but they're largely out of sight while the stories focus on normal people and the radical changes to the wider world. Each of the first five issues is a standalone story, with the sixth bringing many of the characters together to a single event.
The Golden Age was originally published as issues 17-22 of the Eclipse Comics Miracleman series. After the rights eventually moved to Marvel Comics it was republished as a miniseries of its own.
The series is followed by The Silver Age.
Miracleman: The Golden Age provides examples of:
- Back from the Dead: The end of the Olympus arc mentions that Mors is bringing back the dead, including Andy Warhol, who's the protagonist of one of the Golden Age issues. Mors keeps trying to revive Dr. Gargunza, but each attempt ends in some sort of failure due to Gargunza's behaviour. Evelyn Cream is also back and, at the very end of the arc, so is Young Miracleman.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Miracleman warmly agrees to help a woman with her capacity to draw the images in her head, stating everyone has a right to art but coldly turns down a father's plea to help his daughter who's been in a coma since Miracleman's battle with Kid Miracleman in London while refusing to explain why.
- Bowdlerise: Marvel's reprint of of "Notes from the Underground" replaces an instance of the word "faggot" with "fairy".
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good:
- Mors keeps trying this with Dr. Gargunza, tinkering with his mind and memories each time he's revived, but it proves impossible to keep his genius without keeping the dangerous aspects of his personality as well.
- The spies within The City have their memories of the outside world modified. When they start to break free of this conditioning, they're considered for reintroduction to society.
