My Valiant Story

spindustry · Post by **spindustry** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:57 pm

I am 36 years old, so I was in college for what you would call the early 90s big print run period of comics; Death of Superman and all that. I believe I picked up a few of the early Valiant books, but like many became interested when Unity was announced and started scrambling to get a full set of pre-Unity books including the Harbinger issues with coupons. I have a full set of Valiant books, including the, umm, not as good VH2 stuff... even some WindJammer and Armada stuff, which I think fell under the Acclaim banner. I loved the Valiant focus on continuity and story vs. Image's well, focus on image only. I tried to convert many people to Valiant and had hoped for toys, tv shows, movies, etc. and it looked on its way until everything imploded with Acclaim etc. as we all know.

Anyway, I am new to the boards but a big Valiant fan. With all the new activity I have begun to re-read the books, am listening to the Only the Valiant podcast and am ready to go. Maybe I can finally get some new Valiant toys for my basement to go along with all the Star Wars stuff... and my Goat in-action figure!

I am not sure what board to ask this on... but what do you think the odds of Valiant Entertainment re-acquiring Solar and Magnus is to make things complete, so to speak? Also regarding the re-boot, I hope they acknolwedge VH1, largely dismiss VH2, republish these books to catch new fans up and continue with continuity in large part from there.

Go Valiant! Have not been this excited about anything in comics for 10 years!

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:04 pm

Welcome to the board. I think they will eventually re-acquire the rights to Solar, Magnus, and Turok. They have to get Solar since the whole Valiant Universe was created/re-created because of him.

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:18 pm

Welcome !!

Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:27 pm

Welcome, great first post!!

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:36 pm

Welcome back!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:41 pm

Welcome to the border!

(I'm trying something new.)

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:34 pm

Welcome to the boards, great to meet someone listening to the podcast.

Honestly, I am always surprised when someone says they listen to the podcast.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:51 pm

Yay Podcast!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:10 am

spindustry wrote:I am not sure what board to ask this on... but what do you think the odds of Valiant Entertainment re-acquiring Solar and Magnus is to make things complete, so to speak?

No one knows for sure what the status is going to be with Magnus and Solar later on down the road. VEI hasn't said anything either way on the subject. I would like to think that if there were no chance they would have just come out and said so by now.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:17 am

Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:17 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Welcome to the border!

(I'm trying something new.)

I like it....

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:34 am

Welcome

Jrdawg · Post by **Jrdawg** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:42 am

Nice story

Welcome!

JustCallMeAric · Post by **JustCallMeAric** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:14 pm

Welcome to the boards

spindustry · Post by **spindustry** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:23 am

Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.

I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

I have a few Windjammer and Armada that I collected solely thinking they might crossover because there was some link from a Turok book to one of the Windjammer titles... yeah, Acclaim should have focused on keeping one universe in line - not trying to manage 4 - but there were games and cards to sell

96Valiantfan · Post by **96Valiantfan** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:25 am

Welcome

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:47 am

spindustry wrote:
Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.
I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

Did you manage to snag any of the variants?

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:41 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
spindustry wrote:
Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.
I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

Did you manage to snag any of the variants?

Great question...

Welcome to the boards

-Brian

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:42 pm

Welcome to the bored!

I'm glad the podcast helped you find your way here. It's a fun place.

spindustry · Post by **spindustry** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:01 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:
spindustry wrote:
Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.
I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

Did you manage to snag any of the variants?

Sorry to sound like such a noob but give me an example of the variants? I am sure there is a post describing what you mean... I don't think I had any Gold Books, although I did meet Shooter and Lapham and have Harbinger #1 signed by both and Harbinger 1-10 signed by David Lapham (sp?). But give me an example of the variants or where to find a list and I'll check...

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:46 pm

spindustry wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
spindustry wrote:
Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.
I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

Did you manage to snag any of the variants?

Sorry to sound like such a noob but give me an example of the variants? I am sure there is a post describing what you mean... I don't think I had any Gold Books, although I did meet Shooter and Lapham and have Harbinger #1 signed by both and Harbinger 1-10 signed by David Lapham (sp?). But give me an example of the variants or where to find a list and I'll check...

No problem, I'll list a few links to the pics on the site.

Unity 2000 #1 Variant
VH2 Shadowman Special Edition
VH2 Shadowman #1 variant
VH2 Shadowman#16 Glow in the Dark variant
VH3 Shadowman #1 variant (there is also a no price variant)
VH3 Shadowman #2 GBU variant
VH3 Turok Evolution EB games variant

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:26 pm

welcome

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:42 pm

Welcome

spindustry · Post by **spindustry** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:36 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
spindustry wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
spindustry wrote:
Elveen wrote:Hola compadre!

Welcome, you have found the right place.

Do you have a complete Acclaim run of the books? If so, you are in an elite club.
I do have a complete run on Acclaim Valiant Heroes as well, through and including Unity #3.

Did you manage to snag any of the variants?

Sorry to sound like such a noob but give me an example of the variants? I am sure there is a post describing what you mean... I don't think I had any Gold Books, although I did meet Shooter and Lapham and have Harbinger #1 signed by both and Harbinger 1-10 signed by David Lapham (sp?). But give me an example of the variants or where to find a list and I'll check...
No problem, I'll list a few links to the pics on the site.

Unity 2000 #1 Variant
VH2 Shadowman Special Edition
VH2 Shadowman #1 variant
VH2 Shadowman#16 Glow in the Dark variant
VH3 Shadowman #1 variant (there is also a no price variant)
VH3 Shadowman #2 GBU variant
VH3 Turok Evolution EB games variant

I need to review some other boxes for some of the Turoks, but I think my only variant is the Shadowman Vol 3 # 2 VARIANT which I have, and I don't have the original.

Eternalwarrior68 · Post by **Eternalwarrior68** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:17 pm

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