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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1133511664">.mw-parser-output .ib-comics .infobox-above,.mw-parser-output .ib-comics .infobox-title,.mw-parser-output .ib-comics .infobox-header{background-color:#99c2ff}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ib-comics{width:24em}.mw-parser-output .ib-comics .infobox-label{width:40%}}</style><table class="infobox ib-comics-character ib-comics"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Gideon Stargrave</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Publication information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/First_appearance" title="First appearance">First appearance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Near_Myths" title="Near Myths">Near Myths</a></i> #3 (<a href="/wiki/1978_in_comics" title="1978 in comics">1978</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">In-story information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alter ego</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/King_Mob_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Mob (comics)">King Mob</a><br />Gideon Starorzewski<br />Kirk Morrison</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Team affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Invisibles" title="The Invisibles">The Invisibles</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gideon Stargrave</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Comics" title="Comics">comics</a> character created by <a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a> in <a href="/wiki/1978_in_comics" title="1978 in comics">1978</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Comics_anthology" title="Comics anthology">anthology comic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Near_Myths" title="Near Myths">Near Myths</a></i>, and later incorporated into their series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisibles" title="The Invisibles">The Invisibles</a></i>. The character is based on <a href="/wiki/J._G._Ballard" title="J. G. Ballard">J. G. Ballard</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Day_of_Forever_(short_story)" title="The Day of Forever (short story)">The Day of Forever</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Moorcock" title="Michael Moorcock">Michael Moorcock</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Cornelius" title="Jerry Cornelius">Jerry Cornelius</a>, which led to accusations of plagiarism from Moorcock.<sup id="cite_ref-afterimage_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-afterimage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gideon_Stargrave&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first published Stargrave story appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Near_Myths" title="Near Myths">Near Myths</a></i> #3 (December 1978), as part one of "Gideon Stargrave in The Vatican Conspiracy", written and drawn by Morrison. Parts two and three were included back to back at the start of <i>Near Myths</i> #4 (1979), and ended with a teaser panel for "Gideon Stargrave in The Entropy Concerto". <i>Near Myths</i> was cancelled after issue five, before any more Stargrave stories were published, but according to Morrison there were "dozens of unpublished comics and prose stories"<sup id="cite_ref-ink17_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ink17-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which they "wrote obsessively when [he] was 17"<sup id="cite_ref-ness_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ness-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which they subsequently found very embarrassing to read, calling it "pretty embarrassing stuff – the work of a seventeen-year-old who doesn't get out of the house".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though unpublished, "Entropy Concerto" featured a second version of Stargrave, with a "<a href="/wiki/Beatles" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatles">Beatles</a> '65 haircut and Swinging London vibe" which Morrison says "was much better, in that I can still read the stuff without cringing".<sup id="cite_ref-ink17_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ink17-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early 1980s, Morrison and Tony O'Donnell went to London for a meeting with the publishers of <i><a href="/wiki/Pssst!" title="Pssst!">Pssst!</a></i> magazine, who said they wanted to publish Morrison's Gideon Stargrave stories as well as some of their other work.<sup id="cite_ref-Tony_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tony-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Morrison said "I'd done a new Gideon Stargrave story... it's my favourite one I've ever done in my life and it's never been seen anywhere." Like <i>Near Myths</i> though, <i>Pssst!</i> was cancelled before it was published, leading Morrison to "feel that [he] was some kind of albatross".<sup id="cite_ref-afterimage_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-afterimage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stargrave's next appearance was in "Gideon Stargrave in Famine", a two-page comic strip in <i>Food for Thought</i> (a British benefit comic to aid <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopian</a> famine relief) in 1985. </p><p>The character next made an appearance in Morrison's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisibles" title="The Invisibles">The Invisibles</a></i> (Vol. 1, #17–19, 1995) as an alter-ego of <a href="/wiki/King_Mob_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Mob (comics)">King Mob</a>, one of that title's main characters, who in literary terms is reported to have been based on Stargrave.<sup id="cite_ref-SFX_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this incarnation, Stargrave is used by <a href="/wiki/King_Mob_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Mob (comics)">King Mob</a> to confuse his enemies during interrogation. Gideon is a '70s spy modelled after <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jason_King_(television)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jason King (television)">Jason King</a> who spends every scene he appears in seducing his partner, and is supposedly the main character of King Mob's works as an author. In these sequences, we see not only the actual Stargrave story (quoting their earlier unpublished Stargrave stories directly)<sup id="cite_ref-ness_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ness-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but King Mob's cover identity (or probable real world identity) as Gideon Starorzewski, who produces his work under the <a href="/wiki/Pen_name" title="Pen name">pen name</a> Kirk Morrison. </p><p>This ties the real creator (Grant Morrison) in with their various fictional creations (Gideon Stargrave and King Mob/Gideon Starorzewski/Kirk Morrison) and bringing together the various creations in a metafictional conceit. Much of the premise of <i>The Invisibles</i> involves the philosophy that language is a perfectly acceptable method of creation so the notion that Gideon Stargrave is a fictional character does not preclude him from being also a real person. Morrison has also said that they wrote "that Gideon Stargrave story which is kinda the last word on <i>The Invisibles</i>, where he just dissolves into the flashbulbs and that's Gideon's entry into the Supercontext, his death experience".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stargrave appeared in <a href="/wiki/Vertigo_(DC_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertigo (DC Comics)">Vertigo</a>'s <i>Winter's Edge</i> #1 (January 1998) in "And We're All Policemen" with piercings and a shaven head like King Mob, but wearing the trademark purple coat of his first incarnation from "Entropy in the U.K.". His fictional writer, Gideon Starorzewski, starred in its companion short story "I'm a Policeman" in <i><a href="/wiki/Disco_2000_(anthology)" title="Disco 2000 (anthology)">Disco 2000</a></i> (1998). <i>Winter's Edge</i> #2 (January 1999) included "Dress to Kill" – cut out cardboard figures of Lord Fanny and King Mob, with alternative costumes, including the purple outfit for King Mob of "his teen fictional counterpart, GIDEON STARGRAVE, King of the Mods". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inspiration">Inspiration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gideon_Stargrave&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Inspiration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In interviews before the publication of Stargrave stories in <i>The Invisibles</i>, Morrison said the main influence on Gideon Stargrave was <a href="/wiki/J._G._Ballard" title="J. G. Ballard">J. G. Ballard</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Day_of_Forever_(short_story)" title="The Day of Forever (short story)">The Day of Forever</a>": </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Stargrave was originally based on the lead character in J. G. Ballard's 'The Day Of Forever'; everyone thought he was ripped off from Jerry Cornelius, but it was Ballard. The Stargrave stories were completely off the wall... we were given the freedom to do anything we wanted and everyone had ambitions to raise comics up out of the gutter and into the realms of High Art. In the end, though, the lack of discipline resulted in self-indulgent and impenetrable stories that made no attempt to communicate to the average reader. Having said that, there is a lot of real personal stuff in there and it's probably closer to 'Art', with a capital 'A', than anything I've done since.<sup id="cite_ref-afterimage_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-afterimage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The style gave rise to comparisons with <a href="/wiki/William_S._Burroughs" title="William S. Burroughs">William S. Burroughs</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>the background [was] a thermodynamically unstable universe of engrams and entropy. The storytelling technique may have lost a number of readers, with quick cuts from scene to scene, laterally inserted information which at the time doesn't seem to be relevant, more akin to William Burroughs than Michael Moorcock, who at first sight many thought to be the main influence.<sup id="cite_ref-afterimage_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-afterimage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Morrison, however, denied the influence of Burroughs, saying: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I was doing the unreadable Gideon Stargrave stories which used cut-ups and non-sequiturs before I'd even read a Burroughs book.<sup id="cite_ref-mm_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mm-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>On the publication of Gideon Stargrave in <i>The Invisibles</i>, the letters section at the end of "Gideon Stargrave in Entropy in the U.K." in <i>The Invisibles</i> (Vol. 1 #17) included an explanation of the character by Morrison, which gave much more credit to Moorcock: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I feel that I must explain a little about Gideon Stargrave. ... The character ... was inspired by my enthusiasm for the work of J.G. Ballard and Michael Moorcock. As a thinly veiled rip-off of Moorcock's "Jerry Cornelius" character, Stargrave was a ruthless yet likable dandy assassin<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Despite Morrison's statement, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Moorcock" title="Michael Moorcock">Michael Moorcock</a> was so outraged that he reportedly wrote a letter to Vertigo, to be printed in all their magazines, "publicly voicing his disgust".<sup id="cite_ref-SFX_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Moorcock has encouraged other authors to use Jerry Cornelius, in a way that borders on <a href="/wiki/Open-source_license" title="Open-source license">open source</a>, he has posted a number of comments about a couple of authors who, he believes, have directly lifted the character.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Gemmell" title="David Gemmell">David Gemmell</a> is one author, but Moorcock reserves most of his scorn for Morrison: </p><p>On June 12, 2003: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Grant Morrison pinched chunks of Jerry Cornelius whole. Apparently he admits that he does this from others. So that's why I say he's a thief. I don't mind my stuff being taken up and run with, as it were, as <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, who say that's what they do. But I don't think much of people who just pinch stuff.</p></blockquote> <p>On March 14, 2003: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I find a difference between an <a href="/wiki/Homage_(arts)" title="Homage (arts)">homage</a>, an amplification and a straight lift. Lifting is usually done by artists in comics. <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Talbot" title="Bryan Talbot">Bryan Talbot</a> and others have done riffs on Cornelius which have added to the method – extended what can be done with the character and technique, if you like. Morrison doesn't have the talent to do that, though he's probably seen the others doing it and thinks that he's doing the same thing. In my view he isn't. I wasn't ready to sue Morrison but I was extremely pissed off with <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC</a> for running it. Only after his most blatant rips had appeared did someone at DC read the originals and realise to what degree he had stolen the material</p></blockquote> <p>Other earlier statements include: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I've read the work of Grant Morrison twice. Once when I wrote it. Once when he wrote it. As far as I'm concerned my image of Grant Morrison is of someone wearing a mask, a flat hat and a striped jersey and carrying a bag marked SWAG. As far as I'm concerned, by and large, <a href="/wiki/The_Final_Programme_(film)" title="The Final Programme (film)">The Final Programme</a> was a catastrophe saved from an incompetent director by some intelligent actors. In both cases, you can allow for a certain amount of subjectivity in my response.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I never take legal action – or almost never. It would be much cheaper to have GM duffed over. He's a sticky-fingered tea-leaf in my view. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot and other comic people all generously acknowledge my influence – yet none of them have ripped me off the way Grant Morrison has in certain issues of <i>The Invisibles</i>, which are virtually word for word taken from work of mine such as <i>The Great Rock and Roll Scandal</i><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (also known as <i>Gold Diggers of 1977</i>) and others. He has grudgingly admitted doing an 'homage' but as I said, when you catch someone on the fire escape with your television in their arms and they say 'great TV man – you have wonderful taste' you still shout 'Stop Thief'.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In response, Morrison said in a 1997 interview: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He said my work was crass and immature and a disgrace, but, as Mark points out, Michael Moorcock branding your work crass and immature is probably a great compliment! I think he read one issue and has no concept. He's made a fool of himself because he seems to think that the whole of <i>The Invisibles</i> is based on the Jerry Cornelius concept without having read the rest of what we've done.<sup id="cite_ref-SFX_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>And in an interview two years later: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Moorcock saw the 'Gideon Stargrave' arc in the first volume of <i>Invisibles</i> and hated it – as far as I'm aware, he assumed the whole series was a rip-off of his character and didn't bother reading any more. I believe I was dismissed as 'crass' by the great man. C'est la vie.<sup id="cite_ref-Barbelith1999_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barbelith1999-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>They also expanded on the influence from Moorcock on parts of the story in a more recent interview in 2008: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>King Mob's 'Gideon Stargrave' stories are direct quotes from the Michael Moorcock-inspired short stories I wrote obsessively when I was 17".<sup id="cite_ref-ness_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ness-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Mark_Millar" title="Mark Millar">Mark Millar</a> jokingly wrote that "Gideon Stargrave is Grant Morrison with a girlfriend, cool clothes and no stammer" in reply to a letter asking what Gideon Stargrave was when filling in for Morrison, who was ill at the time, by writing the letters column for <i>The Invisibles</i> (Vol. 1, #22). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gideon_Stargrave&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-afterimage-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-afterimage_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-afterimage_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-afterimage_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-afterimage_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fish1000/index/lostcontent/gm-afterimage6-jan88.txt">Grant Morrison interview</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311044433/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fish1000/index/lostcontent/gm-afterimage6-jan88.txt">Archived</a> 2007-03-11 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>After-Image</i> #6, January 1988</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ink17-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ink17_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ink17_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Invisible Ink", <i>The Invisibles</i>, Vol. 1 #17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ness-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ness_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ness_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ness_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://de-vagaesemhybrazil.blogspot.com/2008/09/chat-about-craft-with-grant-morrison-by.html">A Chat About Craft with Grant Morrison</a>, de-vagas em hy-brazil, September 8, 2008</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coates, Tom. 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#21 (January 1997)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Interview with an Umpire" (interview with Grant Morrison), <i><a href="/wiki/Barbelith" title="Barbelith">Barbelith</a></i> online magazine (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120719141323/http://www.barbelith.com/old/interviews/interview_10.shtml">Archived</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mm-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mm_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Interview: Grant Morrison talking to Mark Millar" in <i><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Advertiser" title="Fantasy Advertiser">Fantasy Advertiser</a></i> #109 (1989)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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(Sep 16-1999)</a> by Grant Morrison, at <a href="/wiki/Barbelith" title="Barbelith">Barbelith</a>; published October 17, 1999; retrieved September 15, 2021</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gideon_Stargrave&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/2018010101/http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=11349">Gideon Stargrave</a> at the Comic Book DB (archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=11349">the original</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=78475">King Mob, Gideon Starorzewski and Gideon Stargrave entry at Everything2</a>, which looks at the links between the characters</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060827071957/http://barbelith.com/topic/2891">Discussion on the Cornelius/Stargrave links</a> at <a href="/wiki/Barbelith" title="Barbelith">Barbelith</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060826062702/http://barbelith.com/bomb/1_17.htm">The Bomb annontations for <i>The Invisibles</i> volume 1 #17 in which Stargrave appears</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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