BREAKING NEWS (04/27/2005)... VALIANT SALE FINALIZED!

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:30 pm

I'm guessing they threatened to tie him up in legal court too long with this. Taddeo wieghed the consequnces & let them buy the rights.

Boda

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:36 pm

BodaZoffa wrote:I'm guessing they threatened to tie him up in legal court too long with this. Taddeo wieghed the consequnces & let them buy the rights.

Boda

That's too bad, if that is the case I imagine it was a very tough decision for him. I know he seemed to have a real appreciation for what Valiant used to be.

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:37 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Wellllllllll....I hate to say this publically, cause I like John, but...his vision of only publishing one book a year wasn't going to fly.

We'll see.

Wow a voice of reason....I actually agree with Zeph on this. I loved his passion of everything but a mini-series ...... one or two a year isn't enough to me. If this new group will come foreward in there plans I wonder how long we might be waiting

-Brian

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:01 am

greg wrote:VALIANT SALE FINALIZED

Sorry to say this John, but this sounds good. Actually sounds like all three involved parties would have been good buyers and it was a pity someone had to loose out. Maybe all together can do something. If it actually is finished this time, then my congratulations to the winners.

/Magnus

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:25 am

The winners should just team up with John and produce the comics together.

At the end of the day they all want the same thing, to see VALIANT comics again and make money off it.

Instead of fighting over how much to pay the court for the characters they should have pulled their resources together to pay as little as possible for them (there was only two of them, so they could have kept the price in the low 200's), and then use the rest of their budget to produce the actual comics.

If they both offered the same ammount of 925,000 each, had they combined their money and paid only 200,000 they could have over a million and a half as production capital.

Well, hopefully this can still be an option and if John really lost he can join the winning group as a finantial backer or something.

sonicdan · Post by **sonicdan** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:02 am

My congrats to the winners as well!
DAN

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:04 am

greg wrote:VALIANT SALE FINALIZED
04/27/2005
According to information that I have received today, the Valiant and Acclaim characters
have been purchased. The winning bidders are Ashok Kothari, Jason Kothari,
and Chandra Shamdasani. Though this group was not the highest bidder in the
auction on April 12, 2005, the sale was not finalized until all terms and conditions
had been agreed upon by the bidding party and the bankruptcy court.
Those terms have been finalized today, and the paperwork has been completed.
This group has expressed an interest in bringing back the Valiant characters
as they were first envisioned during the early years of the comics.

I reserve the right to remain silent for fear I may incriminate myself.

Mr.V · Post by **Mr.V** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:52 am

x-omatic wrote:
greg wrote:VALIANT SALE FINALIZED
04/27/2005
According to information that I have received today, the Valiant and Acclaim characters
have been purchased. The winning bidders are Ashok Kothari, Jason Kothari,
and Chandra Shamdasani. Though this group was not the highest bidder in the
auction on April 12, 2005, the sale was not finalized until all terms and conditions
had been agreed upon by the bidding party and the bankruptcy court.
Those terms have been finalized today, and the paperwork has been completed.
This group has expressed an interest in bringing back the Valiant characters
as they were first envisioned during the early years of the comics.
I reserve the right to remain silent for fear I may incriminate myself.

?

Mr.V

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:29 am

x-omatic wrote:I reserve the right to remain silent for fear I may incriminate myself.

I see. Fifth amendment.

/Magnus

Valiant OCD · Post by **Valiant OCD** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:19 am

Remember back during the CHAT with Mr. Taddeo? Remember Dino's cool, businesslike barrage of intricate questions? Planning to bid against the man sure would explain his demeanor.

Or maybe, Dino's wife finnally figured out a way to get his mind of those DAMN Valiants!!!!!

DINO,..........

What do you have to say for yourself son? Are you our daddy now?

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:10 am

WTF is going on

I also saw the 'dino' connection on the bidders list too. DINO is there a connection?

Wow, John got bumped

Like I said on the other thread, I just wonder how long it will be before Valiant characters will be published again

I think things just got more complicated; for better or worse, I have no idea

redskindavyd · Post by **redskindavyd** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:34 am

Wow, that kinda came out of the blue, I thought it was pretty much a done deal b4. Can't wait to hear more about it.

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:39 am

This is very interesting. I'd thought that everything was locked up since Newsarama announced that the sale had been finalized to Mr. Taddeo on the 22nd. I'd be very interested in hearing what happened to cause things to fall apart at the 11th hour.

David B.

myron · Post by **myron** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:57 am

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:08 am

This is probably better off because it would appear that Taddeo had no idea about what he was actually buying...It will be interesting to see what happens with all of this..

Unblessed · Post by **Unblessed** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:11 am

I saw Dino talking with Jim Lee at the Image table between the Marvel and DC table at the latest comic con. He had a cheese burger and fries. He used one of his Unity Reds as toilet paper, to light his Cuban cigar, and gave the rest and told the valet 'use that to wipe her down' in reference to his 1970 Chevy Nova.

I also heard he recently purchased a few bridges over Hudson River. I think the Washington and Brooklyn are no longer for sale.

~The Unblessed Soul

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:23 am

Honestly, if this is the VIP group and they got it because of their going after the trademarks, that's pretty *SQUEE*. As if we need more shady scumbags getting hold of the Valiant properties.

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:26 am

andrew wrote:Honestly, if this is the VIP group and they got it because of their going after the trademarks, that's pretty *SKREE*. As if we need more shady scumbags getting hold of the Valiant properties.

WTF! Everyone I give you the DFPotD..congrats and it is only 9:30 EST...

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:27 am

andrew wrote:Honestly, if this is the VIP group and they got it because of their going after the trademarks, that's pretty *SKREE*. As if we need more shady scumbags getting hold of the Valiant properties.

I don't think this is the VIP group, but time will certainly tell.

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:27 am

Unblessed wrote:I saw Dino talking with Jim Lee at the Image table between the Marvel and DC table at the latest comic con. He had a cheese burger and fries. He used one of his Unity Reds as toilet paper, to light his Cuban cigar, and gave the rest and told the valet 'use that to wipe her down' in reference to his 1970 Chevy Nova.

I also heard he recently purchased a few bridges over Hudson River. I think the Washington and Brooklyn are no longer for sale.

~The Unblessed Soul

Now that's a

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:41 am

If it's not the VIP group, that's awesome.

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:56 am

DawgPhan wrote:
andrew wrote:Honestly, if this is the VIP group and they got it because of their going after the trademarks, that's pretty *SKREE*. As if we need more shady scumbags getting hold of the Valiant properties.
WTF! Everyone I give you the DFPotD..congrats and it is only 9:30 EST...

I don't know what that even means, but I just feel that registering for the trademarks when the auction was coming up was a shady move on VIP's part.

Oh, and also, I thought Taddeo's ideas were bunk from the beginning and it never really sat well with me. If this group is going to print books again, I'm all for it.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:57 am

Needless to say anyone gets ahold of some solid, confirmed information about the mystery trio post it ASAP. Hope they want to do comics

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:12 am

andrew wrote:
DawgPhan wrote:
andrew wrote:Honestly, if this is the VIP group and they got it because of their going after the trademarks, that's pretty *SKREE*. As if we need more shady scumbags getting hold of the Valiant properties.
WTF! Everyone I give you the DFPotD..congrats and it is only 9:30 EST...
I don't know what that even means, but I just feel that registering for the trademarks when the auction was coming up was a shady move on VIP's part.

Oh, and also, I thought Taddeo's ideas were bunk from the beginning and it never really sat well with me. If this group is going to print books again, I'm all for it.

Yeah registering for trademarks is real shady...so devious going down to the clerk's office and filing out paperwork...on no...I hope these people arent loose on the streets...I bet they even had things notarized...those *SQUEE*...Like I said.. DFPotD...

Basically you have no idea about what is going on just deicided that someone was doing something wrong...none of us really have any idea...well greg probably knows more than he is telling us, but that is always the case. You dont know if these people are the folks at VIP or not. You dont know anything, but what those guys did was shady...how can you even say that...Acclaim let the copyrights lapse...we are lucky that 50 different people didnt file a claim for every character...VIP were the ONLY people that were actually on the ball...Acclaim sold something that they may not have any legal right to. Oh and if these 3 people are not VIP then they may still not have the rights to the characters...

This is all a big mess...and I think that it will be a very long time before we see any valiant comics on the racks...

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:15 am

Todd Luck wrote:Needless to say anyone gets ahold of some solid, confirmed information about the mystery trio post it ASAP. Hope they want to do comics

I am almost certain that greg knows more than he is telling us...which is fine by me....I can only find 1 person of the 3 on the internet...and I dont even know if that is him...

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