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Doctor Dobson · Post by **Doctor Dobson** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:26 pm

My VALIANT story is probably actually quite standard, I'd imagine. I started collecting comics in 1984 (when I was 7) with the 2nd issue of Who's Who and have been collecting ever since. On a trip to Colorado in 1992, I was fortunate enough to pick up copies of Shadowman #1 and Solar #10 for cover price (right before things started blowing up for VH1), and was hooked. I made sure to get all the issues of Unity and loved it (what my puny 15 year-old mind could comprehend).

I decided it was silly to spend my allowance on pre-Unity Valiants (I remember my friend Steve spent $140 on Magnus #12, which to me was absolutely absurd), so I stuck with new issues of every series and the reprint TPBs. My favorite post-Unity books were and still are Archer and Armstrong 1-12 and Eternal Warrior. I started my first year of college in the Fall of 1994 and began to lose interest in the books . . . . . mainly because they started sucking (someone convince me why Psi-Lords was a good idea). I feel kind of responsible for putting one of my LCS's out of business because I simply stopped buying all Valiant books on my pull list after the Chaos Effect. Valiant folded soon after, and I really didn't have much interest in the Akklaim stuff.

Fast forward to 2003 . . . . I'm at a Half-Price Book store in Olathe, KS and am thumbing through the $0.25 bin. In it I find Harbinger #1-7, Magnus #1-12, Solar #1-9, X-O #1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, and Rai #1, 2, and 3. I bought them immediatly and had what was basically a complete pre-Unity collection for less than $10. Then I read them. Amazing.

I trolled this board for awhile then, but never registered, and am now back as a full member, who is very happy to be here and hoping that the return of Valiant is as brilliant and successful as those pre-Unity Valiants were. Thanks for letting me rant.

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:38 pm

Welcome to the bored!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:38 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:Fast forward to 2003 . . . . I'm at a Half-Price Book store in Olathe, KS and am thumbing through the $0.25 bin. In it I find Harbinger #1-7, Magnus #1-12, Solar #1-9, X-O #1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, and Rai #1, 2, and 3. I bought them immediatly and had what was basically a complete pre-Unity collection for less than $10. Then I read them. Amazing.

Wow, nice score. Did the Harby and Magnus books have all the coupons?

Btw, Welcome to the board.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:15 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:Fast forward to 2003 . . . . I'm at a Half-Price Book store in Olathe, KS and am thumbing through the $0.25 bin. In it I find Harbinger #1-7, Magnus #1-12, Solar #1-9, X-O #1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, and Rai #1, 2, and 3. I bought them immediatly and had what was basically a complete pre-Unity collection for less than $10. Then I read them. Amazing.

Good golly, that's a great deal! You won't find one like that again. Welcome to the board!

The Harbinger · Post by **The Harbinger** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:28 pm

welcome

Doctor Dobson · Post by **Doctor Dobson** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:05 pm

All of the Harbys were "couponed." The Magnuses were intact with the exception of #5. It was an amazing deal and a surprising one. Like I said, it's wonderful to be here.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:09 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:All of the Harbys were "couponed." The Magnuses were intact with the exception of #5. It was an amazing deal and a surprising one. Like I said, it's wonderful to be here.

In all honesty, I think this is one of the two best message boards on the net. And this one is the most friendly. Kudos to Greg and the members of this board for a great community.

The Harbinger · Post by **The Harbinger** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:29 pm

In all honesty, I think this is one of the two best message boards on the net. And this one is the most friendly. Kudos to Greg and the members of this board for a great community.

i think there's a simple reason this board is made of some world class people, cause they're smart. I don't know about everyone else, but the smart people at my high school were always the nicest. Fart jokes and the like aside, everyone on this board has above average intelligence. You couldn't enjoy Valiant's in-depth writing if you were dumb.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:36 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:Like I said, it's wonderful to be here.

Welcome!

mobstirr · Post by **mobstirr** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:33 pm

Welcome!

Doctor Dobson · Post by **Doctor Dobson** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:33 pm

Absolutely true. Perhaps it helps that it's not populated by middle-schoolers. I was a regular on a board called niketalk, which became exceedingly unbearable as the number of insecure middle and high-school aged young people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really quite refreshing.

Lightning Strike, in your opinion, what's the other board you reference?

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:41 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
Doctor Dobson wrote:Fast forward to 2003 . . . . I'm at a Half-Price Book store in Olathe, KS and am thumbing through the $0.25 bin. In it I find Harbinger #1-7, Magnus #1-12, Solar #1-9, X-O #1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, and Rai #1, 2, and 3. I bought them immediatly and had what was basically a complete pre-Unity collection for less than $10. Then I read them. Amazing.

Wow, nice score. Did the Harby and Magnus books have all the coupons?

Btw, Welcome to the board.

Great deal. Are you related to the Dobson's of Colorado? Welcome to the VF community.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:46 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:...people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really quite refreshing.

That's because we ban those guys.

(...and by "we", I mean "I".)

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:56 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:
Lightning Strike, in your opinion, what's the other board you reference?

Comicboards

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:57 pm

greg wrote:
Doctor Dobson wrote:...people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really quite refreshing.
That's because we ban those guys.

(...and by "we", I mean "I".)

Doctor Dobson · Post by **Doctor Dobson** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:21 pm

tarheelmarine wrote:Great deal. Are you related to the Dobson's of Colorado? Welcome to the VF community.

No . . . . . Doctor Dobson's from Muskogee. I'm from Illinois.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:29 pm

Hola compadre......

Glad you have come to where we are some of the times.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:32 pm

Doctor Dobson wrote:
tarheelmarine wrote:Great deal. Are you related to the Dobson's of Colorado? Welcome to the VF community.
No . . . . . Doctor Dobson's from Muskogee. I'm from Illinois.

Here ya go...

Dobson's first appearance in Alpha & Omega...

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:44 pm

childres · Post by **childres** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:28 pm

Hi! Hope you enjoy this place as much as I do.

-Joe

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:19 am

Doctor Dobson wrote:Absolutely true. Perhaps it helps that it's not populated by middle-schoolers. I was a regular on a board called niketalk, which became exceedingly unbearable as the number of insecure middle and high-school aged young people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really quite refreshing.

We're grown men acting like we know everything about everything.

Except women. We are smart enough to not even pretend knowing that.

steverino · Post by **steverino** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:24 am

Welcome to the boards!

TKWill · Post by **TKWill** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:44 am

Wow, guys reading through this thread made me all warm and fuzzy inside. I hung around on the periphery for awhile before joining the board here, I had this belief that boards consist of hormone-frenzied teens and guys that live in their parents' basement but from what I had read everyone was "good people" so I finally took the plunge. Stick around and speak your mind. BTW, welcome to the boards Doc Dobson.

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:30 am

Welcome

muzzsucker · Post by **muzzsucker** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:14 pm

greg wrote:
Doctor Dobson wrote:...people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really quite refreshing.
That's because we ban those guys.

(...and by "we", I mean "I".)

But who watches the greg?

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