[6] Moore's successor Neil Gaiman resurrected Young Miracleman at the conclusion of his first story arc, "The Golden Age".

[10] Logan Dalton compared Young Miracleman to "one of the kids from Chronicles of Narnia" due to his dated attitudes while reviewing the first issue of the series.

[13] Both Jamie Lovett of ComicBook.com[14] and Matthew Peterson of Major Spoilers[15] noted the metafictional storytelling allowed by the Young Miracleman character.

Eager to help, Dicky offers to deliver a warning to the industrialist Hiram Steele, who has been targeted by the rival Strong Steps Corporation.

He then embarks on a long and successful crimefighting career of his own, battling both earthly threats such as the mad scientist Young Gargunza, nephew of Marvelman's archenemy Dr. Gargunza[17][18] and alien menaces including the powerful Young Nastyman, a youth named Pontag from the planet Victo who could gain superpowers thanks to an elixir given to him by the curmudgeonly hermit Nastyman,[19] and later returning on further occasions.

[22] Other adventures saw The Mightiest Boy in the Universe prevent millionaire Hiram Z. Batz from stealing the world's monuments;[23] save the Sultan of Khazistan from assassination;[24] stop the elven Zugs from poisoning the waters of Luxenheim Health Spa;[25] imprison a ring of criminals fixing baseball and hockey games with drugged hot dogs;[26] liberate Prince Plar of Plax to prevent the Plaxians from invading Earth under the hawkish Zora;[27] recovering a bottomless jug of milk;[28] break up a gang of kidnapping Argentine gauchos;[29] rescue explorers from bandits in Kurdistan;[30] retrieve a stolen magic carpet from Mahrud the Unwashed in Damascus;[31] dispose of a large amount of nuclear bombs when Senor Crepi attempts to steal them from America;[32] aiding the police in capturing on-the-lam gangster Big Spud;[33] deal with the dervish Abu Halfa when he attempted to convince the people of Sudan he was the Mahdi;[34] recapture escaped prisoners for the Foreign Legion in colonial Ligeria;[35] coercing his TMS boss Mr.

Snarl into reinstating Dauntless and his chums by forcing him to run a gang of Mexican bandits and using his subsequent crimes as leverage;[36] free explorer Foster Thorne from slavers;[37] prevent foreign agent Varsoff from kidnapping atomic genius Professor Nuklear;[38] transport a preserved woolly mammoth found near the North Pole;[39] defeating Dr. Nitro's giant ants;[40] track down the Jawal Rifles' missing goat mascot Pogo;[41] defeating the plotting lesser Olympian gods Hiatus and Pathygus;[42] foil attempts by foreign agents to steal the new X1000 rocket;[43] dealing with unscrupulous Canadian loggers];[44] travel back in time to free a sheriff from the Buller Gang[45] and serve in the Pacific theater of World War II;[46][47][48][49][50] return a vast collection of ships accrued by modern-day pirates;[51] dream he was a Chinese boy enslaved by Mongols;[52] locate survivors of a plane crash in the Brazilian jungle;[53] prevent disaster from ruining a sacred city in Tibet;[54] bail out a girl who thought she could be an astronaut;[55] turn back an invasion by subterraneans;[56] recover genetically modified hybrid creatures intended as a response to public outcry over the use of animals in the Sputnik programme;[57] extract United States Secret Service agent Daniela Lanhart from Boromonia;[58] clear up a misunderstanding that nearly led to an attack on Earth by the people of Udos;[59] halt attempts by a faction of Bruto inhabitants to invade Earth;[60] battle the murderous Nuclear Gnomes created by scientist Silas A. Woodkarver;[61] uncover a plot by Nazi holdout Karl Heilig to salvage a German atom bomb from the wreck of the battleship Blitzkrieg;[62] and defeat the huge Mongolian bandit Manola Khan.

;[64] a combined alliance of Marvelman's arch-enemy Doctor Gargunza and his nephew, Young Marvelman rogue Young Gargunza;[65] the King of Vegetableland;[66] invaders from the planet Vardica;[67] would-be dictator Professor Batts and his speech-scramber;[68] a crime boss intent on sinking Pacific City below the ocean;[69] the cruel, slave-driving King Snop of Atlantis (which the story revealed would eventually become Australia);[70] an attempt by Gargunza to declare himself King of the Universe;[71] cruel 14th century knight Simon de Carton (clearing the name of Amadis of Gaul in the process);[72] a monster accidentally collected from the planet Droon;[73] and Professor Wosmine's shrinking ray.

He was thus identified by Emil Gargunza and Sir Dennis Archer as a suitable candidate for Project Zarathustra, intelligence agency Spookshow's plan to create superhumans as a Cold War weapon.

Dauntless was abducted and drugged before being cloned with Qys technology, a process that had recently been used on fellow kidnapped orphan Micky Moran.

[82] In 1963 the trio were released into the world and lured into Earth's atmosphere, with their conditioning making them think they were investigating a device created by a fictional analogue of Gargunza, an archenemy from the artificial reality.

[87] The planet became an advanced utopia and with the aid of Qys technology a probe was able to take cell samples from Dauntless' corpse in infraspace and build new bodies for him.

He is the lover of Linda McQuillan (the superhero Captain UK) and ensures her escape to Earth-616 during the events of when the Fury massacres the heroes of their world.