What was your first Valiant comic?

inmyblood · Post by **inmyblood** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:44 am

I thought this would be a fun topic for the newbies and the veterans too.

If I can remember that far back I think mine was Magnus Robot Fighter #25, silver foil cover

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ibreakhorses · Post by **ibreakhorses** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:14 am

Shadowman #7...I think?

dantheman · Post by **dantheman** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:18 am

I jumped on board the Valiant band wagon later than a lot of people (I was pretty young when Valiant was starting up) but the first issue I picked up was Turok #12 I think.

myron · Post by **myron** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:30 am

seem to remember picking up Magnus 2...

...and everything after that until just after chaos effect...

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:12 am

I can't recall the precise issue, but I do know it was Shadowman very close after Unity. Maybe #6 or #7?

D_N_G · Post by **D_N_G** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:17 pm

Bought Magnus 1 off the shelf. Had a bunch of Gold Keys I got from KayBee in 3 packs when I was little and liked the character.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:49 pm

Mine was Magnus #1. I just couldn't believe how well written the stories were compared to the crud that DC and Marvel were spewing out at the time.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:22 pm

Solar #11... *sigh* I was JUST a little late.....

-slym (paid $65 for his first Rai #3)

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:24 pm

slym2none wrote:
-slym (paid $65 for his first Rai #3)

Ouch.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:47 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
slym2none wrote:
-slym (paid $65 for his first Rai #3)
Ouch.

I'm not worried... it's at least a 9.6, well-centered, and if I can't get $65 back out of it at any time, it won't be sold.

-slym (bought it right after Unity ended!)

96Valiantfan · Post by **96Valiantfan** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:50 pm

Turok #1,Thought the cover was cool and good story.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:19 pm

Archer and Armstrong #9.

A friend of mine had been collecting Valiant since just before Unity and had let me read A&A 0-6 and I was hooked.

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:51 pm

Bought Magnus #1 off the shelf...

-Brian (spent $75 for Magnus #12 in 1993 wonder-con

)

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:02 am

I can't remember the exact one. Some guy in a LCS talked me into buying a short stack ... early X-Os and Harbingers. I was hooked by that afternoon.

putz · Post by **putz** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:43 pm

Harby 1 when it came out.
I liked the Mustang on the cover also.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:33 pm

putz wrote:Harby 1 when it came out.
I liked the Mustang on the cover also.

I do too, it's a classic. The license plate is pretty funny also.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:17 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:
putz wrote:Harby 1 when it came out.
I liked the Mustang on the cover also.
I do too, it's a classic. The license plate is pretty funny also.

'65-'66 Mustangs are my all-time fave cars... and guess what? "L8 AGAIN" is taken in North Carolina for a tag. *snaps fingers* I'm gonna get something else, though, that should help cement my love of VALIANT.

-slym (currently has "N'ASTIRH" for his tag - an X-Men reference)

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:50 pm

slym2none wrote:-slym (currently has "N'ASTIRH" for his tag - an X-Men reference)

The first X-Men I purchased was #240...I jumped on because of an ad I saw in an Avengers comic I was reading at the time for Inferno. Damn in hindsight N'Astirh was one of the lamest villians...not lamer than Eclipse of course...of course there was S'ym too...he was pretty lame.

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:37 pm

Solar 1 of the rack at the LCS. Magnus had been around for a while but I really was not attracted to it.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:05 pm

MProyas wrote:
slym2none wrote:-slym (currently has "N'ASTIRH" for his tag - an X-Men reference)
The first X-Men I purchased was #240...I jumped on because of an ad I saw in an Avengers comic I was reading at the time for Inferno. Damn in hindsight N'Astirh was one of the lamest villians...not lamer than Eclipse of course...of course there was S'ym too...he was pretty lame.

Ah, I agree... but N'astirh is as obscure as he is lame. I get lots of questions about my license plate.

-slym

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:59 am

slym2none wrote:Ah, I agree... but N'astirh is as obscure as he is lame. I get lots of questions about my license plate.

-slym

Now I don't want to use the term "attention seeking weirdo" but...

Second_Death · Post by **Second_Death** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:55 am

Solar #1 was my first Valiant. It had been out for a few weeks as the shop had just received the #2 issue the day I received a copy of #1. Has their ever been a better one-year run of a title than Solar had with 1-12+?

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:53 am

slym2none wrote:"L8 AGAIN" is taken in North Carolina for a tag. *snaps fingers* I'm gonna get something else, though, that should help cement my love of VALIANT.

-slym

That's too bad, it would've been a cool choice for a Harby fan (especially if you owned a classic Mustang).

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:13 am

Second_Death wrote:Solar #1 was my first Valiant. It had been out for a few weeks as the shop had just received the #2 issue the day I received a copy of #1. Has their ever been a better one-year run of a title than Solar had with 1-12+?

can you say Secret Wars?

...ouch...

and with that, 100 meandering, mundane posts full of filler and beef bi-products have helped spread the insanity and hopefully made a healthy number of you go: "wtf?"

I'd like to thank Greg, and the academy. My mother couldn't be here tonight, it is her bingo night, I'd like to thank my grade 9 Data Processing teacher, without whom I would still be doing the "hunt and peck" typing format. I'd like to thank God of course...without Mr. Gates us plebians would be stuck communicating via comic book mailbags and local BBS message boards.

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:20 am

slym2none wrote:"L8 AGAIN" is taken in North Carolina for a tag.

How about "L8 AGIN" ? (or "L8-AGIN") Should be Georgia-plates however...

/Magnus