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This is a sad day for me personally. I've known Jim since the late 1990s. We became friends. Over the years there were good times, and bad, but we always remained friends. We both understood how things worked. He was a really nice person.
I will miss him. Oh, the stories I could tell. God's speed ...

I'm still around. Going on 20 years.
-W

Just to clarify. I was never hired by Alien. Only Lysa and Dani were brought on board at Alien.

Hope everyone is doing well. It's been a long time since I posted here.

WB

As a member of this board for almost 20 years and as a "Valiant Higher-Up" I can tell you the initial post in this thread is totally false.

And, as I said many, many years ago Time Will Tell.

-W

I never left.

Hello All. I'm still here!

Today I learned of James' passing.
Today I lost a former colleague and neighbor.
More importantly, today I lost a friend.

Although James and I didn't agree on everything during our Acclaim days together, we agreed on most. One thing we never disagreed on was our love for these great characters ...

Bernard Chang and Sean Chen for the splash page.
Awesome
Need I say More?

-TWT

From what I remember...

Concrete Jungle was scheduled to be a four-issue mini series. After the publication of issue #1, the line was cancelled along with all the other Acclaim comics at the time.

Years later (2002?), an individual from Canada sued Acclaim over the comic for copyright and ...

All sixty-two titles were licensed to South Korea.

The initial print runs of these first five titles ran 3,000 copies each.
As of November 2000, these were the only titles printed, however, they hoped at that time to have an additional 25 titles printed by March 2001.

That's about all the ...

Oh... and

Henry IV, Part 1 = 21,950 copies

-TWT

Zero, here's some information I found going through some old documents.

Acclaim's bulk sale of Classics Illustrated inventory contained the following:

Frederick Douglass = 0 copies
Scarlet Pimpernel = 2,500 copies
5-Book Shakespeare Set = 712 sets
5-Book Greatest Authors Collection = 536 sets
5 ...

Yup, they do...

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=951477924&searchurl=kn%3Dclassics%2Billustrated%2Bdouglass%26x%3D0%26y%3

WOW! Like a bad dream!
When I started at Acclaim, I had CARTONS of Frederick Douglass looking back at me as I spent weekends shipping Classic Illustrated ...

You had The Scarlet Pimpernel in bulk larger than the F. Douglass book?

I pretty sure, yes. I'll have to go back and look through some old records to be sure, but I'm pretty confident about that.


-TWT

Zero is correct. There were 62 titles printed if I remember correctly.
The boxed sets would be the most difficult to find these days I would imagine.

I said that the Frederick Douglass title was probably the hardest to find based on my bulk sale of all Acclaim's Classic Illustrated titles back in ...

I would have to say that Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass would be the rarest of Acclaim's Classic Illustrated titles.

I hope they relaunch and that this is not the beginning of the end for Valiant comics.

=TWT

Sorry you feel that way Todd.
-TWT

So TWT, you trying to duck out on telling people about the secret of your avatar

Hahaha!
No!
Was a bit busy today!

My avatar is actually a picture taken from a Sixty Minutes Wednesday interview about the video game business filmed at Acclaim's HQ in Glen Cove.

Evidently, the Sixty Minutes ...

Hey John! You took a pic of me talking with KC. Where's that?

Great to meet you Mr. Woo. Sorry you couldn't stay.
I was cook'n up them there ham hocs!

(Inside joke)

MY AVATAR

Anyone care to elaborate?
If not I'll come clean.... tomorrow or Monday!