Talk:Big Ben (comics)

confusing publication history
the publication history as written is confusing and I suspect is missing something.


 * "Big Ben first appeared in 1983 in Warrior when Skinn asked Alan Moore to introduce him as a supporting character in Marvelman, to segue into reprinting the original Ian Gibson drawn material (which later appeared in the 1984 Warrior Summer Special) and then in his own strip (drawn by Will Simpson and David Hine)."

if Big Ben first appeared in the MarvelMan story in Warrior 9 (where he has the Neanderthal appearance and only thinks he looks like John Steed), then what is the original Ian Gibson material Skinn was intending to reprint? Something Skinn worked on earlier in his career, or maybe another historic comic strip appropriated/repurposed like Mick Anglo's MarvelMan? Where and when was this original Ian Gibson material originally printed?

As worded it implies there were previously printed Big Ben stories where the character did resemble John Steed. If that is true then those should be explained clearly first, before discussing the MarvelMan story. If I'm reading that sentence wrong, then it is very strangely worded and I don't know what it is trying to say.

J Edward Malone (talk) 16:58, 2 July 2018 (UTC)