Lack of valiant at London comic con

Mark Fuller · Post by **Mark Fuller** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:08 am

So I trundled along to the London Super Comic Con on Saturday hoping to pick up a couple of VEI variants (among other goodies.) Had a great time but was genuinely shocked to discover that not a single dealer had any of the recent Valiant comics at all. Can anyone explain this?

BTW – I did have a brief chat with Ron Marz at the Top Cow booth. Never really read any of their books but he was such a nice guy I’m now tempted to check some out!

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:12 am

Mark Fuller wrote:So I trundled along to the London Super Comic Con on Saturday hoping to pick up a couple of VEI variants (among other goodies.) Had a great time but was genuinely shocked to discover that not a single dealer had any of the recent Valiant comics at all. Can anyone explain this?

BTW – I did have a brief chat with Ron Marz at the Top Cow booth. Never really read any of their books but he was such a nice guy I’m now tempted to check some out!

Top Cow - Check out Cyberforce, it's free and a good team book!

Shadowman99 · Post by **Shadowman99** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:14 am

I checked the website and was really surprised to find that Valiant didn't have a booth there at all. I would have thought that now's a critical time for the company to be promoting itself, big-style. Obviously they're not that worried about marketing in the UK :S

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:45 am

Mark Fuller wrote:Had a great time but was genuinely shocked to discover that not a single dealer had any of the recent Valiant comics at all. Can anyone explain this?

Yes. It turns out, not many dealers sell the Valiant books.

Dallow Spicer1 · Post by **Dallow Spicer1** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:37 pm

Mark Fuller wrote:So I trundled along to the London Super Comic Con on Saturday hoping to pick up a couple of VEI variants (among other goodies.) Had a great time but was genuinely shocked to discover that not a single dealer had any of the recent Valiant comics at all. Can anyone explain this?

BTW – I did have a brief chat with Ron Marz at the Top Cow booth. Never really read any of their books but he was such a nice guy I’m now tempted to check some out!

Yes, I know what you mean about the total absence of Valiant books by UK dealers. I was out of comics since the late 90's until last year and have since attended a couple of comic marts in the last few months. My 3 main observations are 1) how small the comic marts are these days (maybe less than a quarter in size compared to the 90's hey day 2) Valiant comics in dealers' boxes are rarer than rocking horse s@!£ 3) many people who attend comic marts are not as keen on taking showers as the rest of the population

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:07 pm

Mark Fuller wrote:So I trundled along to the London Super Comic Con on Saturday hoping to pick up a couple of VEI variants (among other goodies.) Had a great time but was genuinely shocked to discover that not a single dealer had any of the recent Valiant comics at all. Can anyone explain this?

BTW – I did have a brief chat with Ron Marz at the Top Cow booth. Never really read any of their books but he was such a nice guy I’m now tempted to check some out!

Actually, as far as I could see, exactly one single dealer had a few recent Valiant comics

Nice you got to see Ron Marz, I missed him.

Obviously we need to coordinate better. It would have been great to see you.

/Magnus

SJS4 · Post by **SJS4** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:14 pm

Dallow Spicer1 wrote: ...3) many people who attend comic marts are not as keen on taking showers as the rest of the population

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:32 pm

Shadowman99 wrote:I checked the website and was really surprised to find that Valiant didn't have a booth there at all. I would have thought that now's a critical time for the company to be promoting itself, big-style. Obviously they're not that worried about marketing in the UK :S

Putting together a team for an overseas con might be outside their current con budget.

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:16 am

Would have been to met up

next time perhaps.

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 2:48 am

Since this thread is started ~ I will not start another. I will add photos latter.
Not much time now.

Just like to say how fantastic everyoneone was. Bob Layton, Bob Mcleod, Doug Braithwait, Emanuela Lupacchino and her inker (do not recall name but fantastic ~ will get name for you) also David Hine ( great guy). Yes and Rubic aswell ~ great guy. Neal Adams

~ can understand.

Even more fun was everyone at Dead universe comics.
Ian was a Very busy man over the weekend ~ nice to see and chat with ~ went to bar afterwards ( stayed strong

). He has put so much work into his shop and organising publishing events ~ champion effort ian AKA Draco.

Magnus and I must of chatted from 1030 to 1530 then 1700 to 2030 thats just on saturday! So great to see you Magnus ~ always a pleasure. More latter ~ may just edit thread.

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