Gold Valiants Personally Received

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:32 pm

Who here received Gold Valiants back in the day personally from VALIANT, and which one(s) did you receive from them? Also, what led to your getting it? (them)
I received one gold from VALIANT, an Eternal Warrior 1 embossed. I was talking to Mr. Steve Massarsky at a con and he gave it to me.

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:44 pm

I got a gold Ninjak #1 via mail unexpectedly. I turned in the cards from the comics to get the set of chromium cards from Valiant. It took a while and they enclosed the gold comic as a freebie. Below is the apology letter, James Perham's business card, and an extra chromium card that came along with the gold Ninjak #1.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:47 pm

Very cool, Iggy.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:04 pm

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:11 pm

very cool to have a letter from them

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:39 pm

Here's a story I posted a few years ago about how I ended up getting a whole run of gold books, even though I didn't really want them.........

Blood of Heroes wrote:The worst day of my life happened at the San Diego Comic Con about 1994(or some time before the Chaos Effect). Valiant was in it's prime, and had a huge booth at which they held signings and all sorts of crap. The main thing they were doing was holding trivia contests every twenty minutes or so, and for each correct answer they gave you a pack of promotional trading cards. These packs were to be used as currency at an auction that was to be held on Sunday. Having a four day pass, I never strayed too far from the booth, amassing as many packs of cards as I could. They had posted a list of what was to be auctioned off. The list included rare books, original artwork, paraphernalia, etc. But what I wanted most, was to win the auction to be drawn into an upcoming comic book as some background character. I would live forever in the pages of Harbinger, or dare I say, Bloodshot! Well, the day came and I had quite a few packs of these cards. The auction number came about and I found myself in a bidding war with several other people. Then there was two- me and one other. When the smoke cleared, I found myself short about five packs of cards. I had lost. In my despair, I settled on the next auction for a complete set of Gold Books. Not too shabby, right? At least I wasn't walking away empty handed. As I started to leave the room, Gold Books in hand, I heard them announce that since the 'get drawn into a book auction' was such a big hit they were going to do another. The second one didn't come close to what the first one had gone for, but since I had spent all my 'money' on the Gold Books, I didn't have a chance. Aint life a b!tch?

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myron · Post by **myron** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:44 pm

I got an X-O manowar 0 gold...for a bulletin board that I had up in my classroom...

bgilmore15 · Post by **bgilmore15** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:00 pm

I got a Magnus Robot Fighter # 21 for a harbinger flag I made and an add I put in a local paper with the harbinger spiel with the LCS phone number on it.
Billy

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:43 pm

Blood of Heroes wrote:Here's a story I posted a few years ago about how I ended up getting a whole run of gold books, even though I didn't really want them.........

Blood of Heroes wrote:The worst day of my life happened at the San Diego Comic Con about 1994(or some time before the Chaos Effect). Valiant was in it's prime, and had a huge booth at which they held signings and all sorts of crap. The main thing they were doing was holding trivia contests every twenty minutes or so, and for each correct answer they gave you a pack of promotional trading cards. These packs were to be used as currency at an auction that was to be held on Sunday. Having a four day pass, I never strayed too far from the booth, amassing as many packs of cards as I could. They had posted a list of what was to be auctioned off. The list included rare books, original artwork, paraphernalia, etc. But what I wanted most, was to win the auction to be drawn into an upcoming comic book as some background character. I would live forever in the pages of Harbinger, or dare I say, Bloodshot! Well, the day came and I had quite a few packs of these cards. The auction number came about and I found myself in a bidding war with several other people. Then there was two- me and one other. When the smoke cleared, I found myself short about five packs of cards. I had lost. In my despair, I settled on the next auction for a complete set of Gold Books. Not too shabby, right? At least I wasn't walking away empty handed. As I started to leave the room, Gold Books in hand, I heard them announce that since the 'get drawn into a book auction' was such a big hit they were going to do another. The second one didn't come close to what the first one had gone for, but since I had spent all my 'money' on the Gold Books, I didn't have a chance. Aint life a b!tch?

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Wow. What a bittersweet way to win a run of Valiant Golds.

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:18 pm

StarBrand wrote:
Wow. What a bittersweet way to win a run of Valiant Golds.

Yeah, but what can you do?

I still have them too. Valiant monogrammed mylar and all!

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:19 pm

bgilmore15 wrote:I got a Magnus Robot Fighter # 21 for a harbinger flag I made and an add I put in a local paper with the harbinger spiel with the LCS phone number on it.
Billy

Now that's funny!

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:43 pm

I had a Fraternity brother that had a friend that worked for Valiant. He gave me a gold A&A. I then traded in to a place for store credit.

If I remember correctly, I got $90 store credit. I remember getting my first solar #10 from the deal.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:58 pm

I love these stories and am very jealous that you guys did all these things and had the chance.

being in the UK and about age 22ish i did zilch.
In fact i was such a lazy piece of crap i could barely get up in the morning let alone do something pro active for what i loved.
Oh how times have changed, thank fully.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:36 am

I should have, but...

At the time, I had a black VW Jetta (laugh if you want, I loved that car) and had lined up some art-school help to paint the VALIANT compass on the front hood, but literally the day before I was to get it painted on, I wrecked and totalled the car due to some gravel being out in the road on a curve that caused me to spin and flip the car. I didn't get hurt (luckily) but so much for my sweet idea. No less, a few months down the line (post-Unity) I believe somebody had the same idea as me get in the books.

*sigh*

-slym

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:28 am

Draco wrote:I love these stories and am very jealous that you guys did all these things and had the chance.

being in the UK and about age 22ish i did zilch.
In fact i was such a lazy piece of crap i could barely get up in the morning let alone do something pro active for what i loved.
Oh how times have changed, thank fully.

Sounds like my life man!

dave · Post by **dave** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:54 pm

I got an X-O gold from them. It's signed by Bob Layton and Jorge Gonzalez. I got it for putting some tape across the top of my humvee when we went on a long drive from Ft Carson down to Trinidad CO. (none of us got sex changes btw).

Anyway, I was the X-O's driver, and I was one of the few in the unit who had been in the Gulf war, so to rub their loser noses in it, I taped X-O over the Executive Officer's side and Man-o-war over mine. I took some pix and told them how many people I estimated how many people I thought saw it.

Incidentally the Hummer ended up going off the road (He was driving-not me!) and it got all wrecked. I had before and after pictures now!

Jennifer Maldonado wrote me a note thanking me for the support and told me that Jorge had my photos up on his wall "for inspiration".

It was cool, and definitely worth the broken ribs...(not really, they just felt like it)

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:59 pm

dave wrote:I got an X-O gold from them. It's signed by Bob Layton and Jorge Gonzalez. I got it for putting some tape across the top of my humvee when we went on a long drive from Ft Carson down to Trinidad CO. (none of us got sex changes btw).

Anyway, I was the X-O's driver, and I was one of the few in the unit who had been in the Gulf war, so to rub their loser noses in it, I taped X-O over the Executive Officer's side and Man-o-war over mine. I took some pix and told them how many people I estimated how many people I thought saw it.

Incidentally the Hummer ended up going off the road (He was driving-not me!) and it got all wrecked. I had before and after pictures now!

Jennifer Maldonado wrote me a note thanking me for the support and told me that Jorge had my photos up on his wall "for inspiration".

It was cool, and definitely worth the broken ribs...(not really, they just felt like it)

Cool story.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:02 pm

At the time I marveled at the possibility of earning a Gold Valiant. I had the idea of going into the French Quarter dressed as Shadowman during Mardi Grass and passing out flyers, but for whatever reason I didn’t do it—I even had the mask and the rest of the costume ready to go. Woulda, shoulda, coulda I guess...

It’s cool that so many of you guys earned the free one though.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:12 pm

now thats a great idea

sanman · Post by **sanman** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:23 pm

If I can get one of the board masks I may at least do the Shadowman thing at Mardi Grass—this year or next. I still live near New Orleans but the problem is that I’m about 30 pounds heavier today.

Maybe the leather jacket and the wild black wig will cover a multiple number of sins. I could ask a friend to model and I take the pictures but I’d probably owe someone at least lunch.

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:58 pm

I got a gold at a con when I was telling them about my Valiant Visions newsletter. Got it from Steve Martz. It was relatively early in the run, after the EW golds...maybe a Bloodshot gold? It was about 1994, so that seems right.

In all my dealings with Paul for the Valiant Visions, I never did get another one from them (although I did get some to give away as prizes for contests in the Valiant Visions newsletter). But at one point when I went in to get some interviews and such, Paul took me to the backstage "vault" and loaded me up with almost a lot of pre-Unity stuff, including a Harbinger 0, the Solar hard cover, and some other stuff.

Chris

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:52 pm

dave · Post by **dave** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:18 pm

StarBrand wrote:edit

It's okay, go ahead and say it.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:52 pm

dave wrote:
StarBrand wrote:edit
It's okay, go ahead and say it.

I was just going to point out others have received golds from Valiant and haven't shared their stories, but I decided if they wanted to they would do so...so I edited myself.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:32 am

the only valiant i had in the had day was turok 1 i was too cheep to buy any of the big ones