L. Miller & Son, Ltd.

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L. Miller & Son, Ltd. was a British publisher of magazines, comic books and pulp fiction. Founded by Colin Traver and intended primarily to take advantage of the British ban on importing printed matter. Between the 1940s and 1966, the firm published British editions of many American comic books. They are best known for recreating Golden Age Captain Marvel as Marvelman in 1953 in order to avoid cancellation of their "Marvel" titles after America's Fawcett Publications capitulated to National Periodicals (DC Comics). The two companies fought a long legal battle in which National claimed Captain Marvel infringed on Superman's copyright.