Alan Moore uses nine-year-old's fan letter on new book's cover

Young fan’s endorsement of ‘the greatest author in human history’ welcomed by the comics legend, who uses it to adorn new novel Jerusalem

He might have a reputation for being cantankerous, but a letter has emerged online that reveals a softer side to comics heavyweight Alan Moore.

The Letters of Note website has published correspondence from 2013 between Moore, now 62, and a primary-school boy, then aged nine, who calls the writer of Watchmen and V for Vendetta “the greatest author in human history”.

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