Captain Britain would instead be resurrected the following month in a new Marvel UK anthology, The Daredevils - so called for the magazine also featuring reprints of Frank Miller's award-winning Daredevil run. In two short episodes Moore introduced the hero-slaying cybiote Fury, killed off Jackdaw and saw the injured superhero executed by the Fury. Moore rewrote the final page of Thorpe's final completed chapter, retconning Crazy Gang leader Mad Jim Jaspers into a powerful reality-warping mutant who turned the world upside down. ![]() Thorpe's replacement was Alan Moore, had contributed short stories to Marvel UK's Doctor Who Weekly and Star Wars Weekly, as well as well-received material for the Tharg's Future Shocks feature in 2000 AD. As an interim measure a fill-in story set before the events of the first chapter, written by Neary and Davis, would follow. The editor sided with the artist and Thorpe left. Davis felt this was crass, and after Thorpe made what he saw as a disingenuous modification to the story took the dispute to Neary. However, the team only lasted nine months before a disagreement broke out when Thorpe planned to have the characters travel to Northern Ireland and resolve the Troubles. Thorpe introduced some concepts that would run in Captain Britain-related titles such as Excalibur for years to come - the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-influenced Crazy Gang and amoral Saturnyne, who was visually modelled on actress Lauren Bacall. The new Captain Britain feature debuted in Marvel Superheroes #379 in September 1981, and initially was only five black-and-white pages per monthly instalment. The latter had begun professional comics work only a short while before, and the work on Captain Britain would be his first regular, ongoing serial. Neary also decided that the character's Star Sceptre needed to go, and instead the character's source of power was internalised in his revised suit, which was designed by Alan Davis. He and Neary devised a story span out of the Black Knight strip, featuring Captain Britain on an alternate world in order to allow Thorpe's ambitious plans without disrupting the main Marvel Universe. Editor Dave Thorpe was given the job of writer - his first and, as it would turn out, last professional comics work. However, budgetary restrictions meant he was only able to afford novices. Neary took over as Marvel UK editor-in-chief and strove to keep new Captain Britain material going. While well received by readers, Hulk Weekly and other parts of Skinn's "Marvel Revolution" were not a sales success, and he left the company after only a year. ![]() The character was resurrected by Dez Skinn in 1979 as a guest star in The Black Knight, a serial in Hulk Comic, with the story now created in-house by Marvel UK, written by Steve Parkhouse with art from John Stokes and Paul Neary. Creation and publication history Ĭaptain Britain had originally been created in 1976 for the British comics market but his original weekly title, created by Marvel's New York staff, was a failure. While it was first used in print by Moore in the episode "Rough Justice" (in The Daredevils #7) it is generally agreed to have been devised by the strip's initial writer, Dave Thorpe. The storyline is also credited with officially coining the designation "Earth-616" in reference to the events of the mainstream shared fictional Marvel Universe. ![]() It has received consistent critical acclaim and been reprinted by Marvel on several occasions. The story is noted as one of the few Marvel Comics works by acclaimed writer Alan Moore, and among the earliest works by artist Alan Davis. Jaspers' Warp, sometimes referred to as Crooked World, is a superhero comic book storyline from the British Captain Britain strip printed across several Marvel UK titles between 19.
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