"Doctor Solar" and "Magnus, Robot Fighter" take place thousands of years apart, but Shooter said that they do occupy a "shared universe," of sorts, "in the sense that they're both set in the real world, our world. It's a shared universe in the same way that you and I live in a shared universe with Alexander the Great," he said.
"If you're familiar with the wonderful, classic versions of these heroes, you'll be glad to see that everything you loved about them is still there, and more; if you aren't familiar, you'll quickly see why they became icons."
Calero got his start with Doctor Solar and the onetime-Valiant characters as Jim Shooter's intern during his college years. "Working with him and Bob Layton and Jade [Moede] and all those guys made me want to do comics as a profession,"
