What was your first Valiant comic?

GJB · Post by **GJB** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:09 pm

Solar #1. Then #3 because the only shop within 100 miles didn't get #2. Forgot about them and rediscovered them a year later during Unity. I'll never forget the "wow, this is different" feeling I got when I picked up Solar #1. Valiant nostalgia, you gotta love it.

mnc93 · Post by **mnc93** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:40 pm

Here is my first valiant purchase that just came back yesterday from CGC. I bought it over two years ago for $5. (Click to enlarge)

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:49 pm

mnc93 wrote:Here is my first VALIANT purchase that just came back yesterday from CGC. I bought it over two years ago for $5. (Click to enlarge)

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:11 am

I think my first Valiant comic was X-O Manowar 1. I asked my comic shop if there was anything new and interesting that I wasn't reading, and they pointed me toward that. I picked up the back issue for about $3, then forgot about Valiant until Unity.

Archer and Armstrong 1/Unity 0 were really my first Valiant comics, in the sense that that is when I became a big fan.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:27 pm

mnc93 wrote:Here is my first VALIANT purchase that just came back yesterday from CGC. I bought it over two years ago for $5. (Click to enlarge)

This is the one that keeps eluding me for some reason. Oh well, the hunt continues...

Bloodshot67 · Post by **Bloodshot67** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:08 pm

Turok Issue 1.

h-comics · Post by **h-comics** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:44 pm

It was my very first comic convention in 93 when I pick up my first valiant comic which was Rai 0.Some of the best times were reading Valiants,I could not get enough of them,I could not wait every month to pick up the new issue.Wonderful memories

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:48 pm

h-comics wrote:It was my very first comic convention in 93 when I pick up my first VALIANT comic which was Rai 0.Some of the best times were reading Valiants,I could not get enough of them,I could not wait every month to pick up the new issue.Wonderful memories

Welcome to the boards !!

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:48 pm

Bloodshot67 wrote:Turok Issue 1.

I'm sorry . . .

1st Among Equals · Post by **1st Among Equals** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:26 pm

my first valiant comic was the shadowman tpb from my dad

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:02 pm

Nice item. You still have it? If so, keep it forever.

1st Among Equals · Post by **1st Among Equals** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:38 pm

yes i still i have it i would never sell that

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:09 pm

Unity #0

J-Scott-R · Post by **J-Scott-R** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:57 pm

I missed most of the first couple of years, my first book was Bloodshot #1, but it was my second book, X-O #14 that hooked me, been a Valiant fan ever since.

worldsbestcomics · Post by **worldsbestcomics** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:11 pm

My first book was the first Magnus/Rai flipbook. A friend of mine at the LCS convinced me to give Magnus and Solar a read and I was on board from there. I thought Rai was killer. I was buying five copies of every issue before Unity hit. I kept planning on selling them during the speculation boom but never got around to it.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:26 pm

My first Valiant book was Solar #13.

I lived in a very rural town and the lone comics store (half an hour away) ALWAYS sold out of Valiants. I read about them in Wizard and thought they looked so cool and I was dying to get some, but for all intents and purposes they were absolutely unattainable.

Then one day I was sleeping over at a friends house and the next day we went to his local store in Danville.

I saw the Solar #13 (last copy) and snatched it up. I still have the worn and beat-down thing.

I think that's what really adds to the mystique of Valiants for me. When I was a kid they were simply not-to-be-found.

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:07 am

It is hard for me to think what was my actual first Valiant book. The memory insists it is both Unity 0 and Bloodshot one.

Maybe I need to be hypnotized.

Fanboy375 · Post by **Fanboy375** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:18 am

Solar 10 because of the unique cover. Imagine my surprise when the story didn't suck!!!

schi0249 · Post by **schi0249** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:33 am

My first one was X-O #16. Strange, but I still remember it. I was bored w/ Spiderman and Marvel in general. I asked my LCS what he would recommend. He told me to check out Valiant. He said start with an issue of X-O or Bloodshot. I went with X-O and was hooked. I immediately collected all issues back to Unity (man did that cost a bunch). However, do to prices, I couldn't afford most pre-unity so I went the TPB route.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:39 am

schi0249 wrote:My first one was X-O #16. Strange, but I still remember it. I was bored w/ Spiderman and Marvel in general.

Hmm...that was pretty close to horrendous clone saga. There were a lot of people disenchanted with Spidey around that time.

fury143 · Post by **fury143** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:51 am

I think my first was when the lcs owner had me try Archer and Armstrong #1 or 0. I don't remember. At first though this is going to suck, imagine my surprise when it didn't. I had been getting Spawn and a few Marvel titles to that point and had never heard of Valiant.

I never read Wizard either so never heard of them before.

BUDSHAD · Post by **BUDSHAD** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:34 am

Eternal warrior #1. That book caused me to keep purchasing the Valiant line.

fury143 · Post by **fury143** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:55 am

After the A+A issue I saw previews of the other issues and wanted try them as well. The other valiants I read were great as well and I tried to get more. Unfortunately this was just after unity and the prices of the pre-unity issues were taking off. I remembered saving my allowance and birthday ad Christmas money to get harby#1, magnus #12 and solar #10 which wer my grails back then. I probably spent $50-$75 for those issues back then during the speculation craze. I wish I knew what I know now back then.

caxiotis · Post by **caxiotis** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:52 pm

Harbinger #5 was the start of a beautiful beginning with me and the valiant universe. I remember when I bought Harbinger #5 it had a tear in the cover and I was mad, but since it was the only one left on the shelf (and was starting to hear the hype about valiant) I bought it anyway. This comic and #6 brought me into the fold with unity making me buy all of the other titles from valiant at super inflated prices that God knows I did not have the money for as 13 year old kid. It always sucked saving money for a long period of time just to spend $40 on Solar Man of the Atom #10 second print, because the first print was over $100. Those were the days.

fury143 · Post by **fury143** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:30 pm

Caxiotis I remember those days and waiting every week for new valiants to come out. Then getting *SQUEE* off when issues like the intro of screen were sold out because a speculator had bought out all the copies. I stopped collecting when birthquake came around. I thought to myself that these issues and stories sucked. I was going to pick them up when they would come in a 50c bin. I never got around to picking them up. Who would have know the last issues would go up in price.

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