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Steranko vintage originals have recently sold for $30-100K, with recreations reselling for $30K, so the investment aspect is significant. The artist can be contacted at supergraphics@prevue.net ValiantWatch: The Indian Times looks at Indians dpoing rather well relaunching Valiant Entertainment. Unlike Marvel and DC, which feature largely Caucasian heroes, Valiant's lineup has a touch of diversity to it, something[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the motherlode of Rian Hughes alternatives for the new logo of Valiant Entertainment's Shadowman You can see them all here, but Rian asked if he could add his own take on the logo treatments He writes; As with the previous Valiant logos, the first stage was to look at the vintage versions[...]

This is the first look at the trade dress of the new Shadowman comic from Valiant Entertainment. What goes into a logo? Bleeding Cool has uncovered a cache of logo designs by Rian Hughes for Valient Entertainment's Shadowman So… which would you have chosen? [...]

X-O Manowar launched in the marketplace in a rather strong way for a license that many had thought was on the back burner, with a creative team that the

Any more for any more? Here's a look at some of the publishers putting out slightly fewer titles, but most with an action advanture bent… from Ape's Hero Of Alexandria to Aspen's Charismagic to Oni's Bad Medicine, to Valiant's Shadowman to Titan's CLiNT to Zenescope's Fly… what's looking good to you? Ape Entertainment DREAMWORKS ADVENTURE MAGAZINE #2 (W)[...]

Unscripted, reality CC. In this Issue of Collectors Cornered we talk with the writer of VALIANT Comics Archer & Armstrong series, Fred Van Lente & Valiant Sales Manager Atom Freeman during our in Store signing for The SUMMER of VALIANT Party! Cake, Comics and good discussion ensued as over 50 Valiant Fans snapped up a Free[...]

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; Though I came of age in the 1990s I was not aware of Valiant comics After all, I was only 10 years old when the first volume of Harbinger debuted and at that stage in my comic book development I only knew two things: that the X-men were awesome and[...]

Archer & Armstrong #1, out in a couple of weeks on August 8th, has already burnt through its 26,000 strong print run and is going to second print – making this Valiant's first sell out of the overprint of a title before the comic actually goes on sale A second print will be solicited next[...]

This is the image teased by Valiant. And here it is brightened up a little You lose some of the details, but it makes the character a little clearer… This is the image teased by Valiant. And here it is brightened up a little You lose some of the details, but it makes the character a little[...]

Comics Publisher Valiant Sees Its Future on Film  Investors have contributed modest amounts (millions but not tens of millions), which is enough to "comfortably" serve Valiant's current needs, Peter Cuneo said The hunt for movie financing — $300 million to $400 million — will soon start, an endeavor that he predicted would be eased by Marvel's[...]

The first issue sold out of its 45,000 print run, the second issue of X-O Manowar from Valiant has now done the same for its 23,000 print run, with a second print out next month (but orderable from Monday). The second print cover is a sketch variation of Arturo Lozzi's variant for the first printing. The[...]

Here's a quick peek at the 1:100 variant cover for Archer & Armstrong by Barry Windsor Smith-contemporary, Neal Adams. It does seem to be kicking off,

But now, it appears, X-O Manowar #1 is to get a third printing from Valiant Entertainment But they aren't doing so well that they can afford a third cover, so they're printing the pencils to the original instead… The second print is out this week Clearly it's not enough… The first print run was 45,000[...]

Boom have a new series, Freelancers, Legendary resolicit The Tower Chronicles and Valiant bring Ninjak into X-O Manowar.. but what will you be buying? FASHION BEAST #1 (W) Alan Moore (A) Facundo Percio (C) Facundo Percio Alan Moore's unearthed screenplay comes to life as an incredible comic book series almost three decades later! The mid-80's were a[...]

Created by Joe Quesada and Mark Moretti in 1993 for Valiant, the first series was about a British millionaire playboy secret agent Colin King who had trained as a super ninja The second series a few years later, reinvented by Kurt Busiek for Acclaim, saw a teenager gain ninja powers from a video console, only[...]

Comic of the week. Do you remember Patrick Stewart in Extras? Wanting to make a film in which he had telepathic powers but was more realistic than the X-Men? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURfntimnlA[/youtube] Welcome to Harbinger from Valiant where we get that, mixed with a little Jumpers And telepaths going wll beyond what Professor X would consider acceptable and into Patrick[...]

And clearly both Boom and Valiant have a lot behind these respective properties and are keen for as many people to see them in this final push as possible, by sending me the first four unlettered, and in Bloodshot's case uncoloured, pages from each comic. Fair enough then Hypernaturals first, then Bloodshot.   You can tell[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Keith Davidsen In the 1990s, Valiant Comics presented comic fans with a shared universe of unique characters that served not as imitators of established superheroes, but rather new concepts altogether It was a decade where we thrilled to the science fiction of X-O Manowar, shivered with fear in the darkness of[...]

In this weekend's Valiant Free Comic Book Day offering there are plenty of teases as to what is to come in the Valiant Universe. But two pieces stand out rather First there's Lee Bermejo's rendition of Eternal Warrior, another previous Valiant character, to be published later this year Though these pieces are just pin-ups/costume designs from[...]

Valiant have announced they are signing up to be distributed excusively by ComiXology This digital distributor is rapidly becoming the one stop shop, at least as far as repicating the monthly comic shop experience online While most major companies have other methods of getting their titles out into the digital marketplace, ComiXology also run Marvel,[...]

This could well be the biggest comic publisher debut in a decade. I understand that X-O Manowar #1, the debut title from the new Valiant Entertainment, has received over 42,000 preorders. But that the variance in comic store stock is rather large In that some stores of similar sizes have ordered 200, while some have ordered 2. If[...]

Today, Valiant Entertainment launches their new logo, designed by Rian Hughes. I like it It's also reminiscent of Rian's most famous logo, for Forbidden Planet. Anyway, this is how it will look like on the cover of the criminally-under-ordered-and-likely-to-hit-$20-by-the-weekend-after-its-released X-O Manowar.   Today, Valiant Entertainment launches their new logo, designed by Rian Hughes. I like it[...]

Consider this a solicitation team up! For Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and Valiant, together, to make as much as an impact as those Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse and IDW solicitations Will it work? Avatar has Zack Penn's new book, Hero Worship, Boom have the new Hypernaturals from Abnett And Lanning, Dynamite have a new Lone Ranger[...]

Cody Walker is tweeting from the Valiant panel at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool He have seperated him from Sam Walker, currently covering the Vertigo panel. Cary Nord is a Valiant exclusive artist "Didn't want to change the core concept of X-O Manowar" "reinventing the aliens so you can relate to them." The main idea is to keep the core[...]

The cover story features the return of Valiant Entertainment, and its regular features will provide ample coverage of all the top publishers, including Dark Horse, DC Comics, Marvel, Image, IDW, Boom, Avatar Press, Top Cow, and more The full-length regular magazine launch will take place in October, featuring over one hundred pages of insightful features,[...]

There are four books for the "Summer of Valiant" We knew the first three were X-O Manowar, Harbinger and Bloodshot.. but the fourth remained a mystery Valiant seemed to tease that it was Shadowman but instead… The fourth book is Archer & Armstrong. Created by Barry Windsor Smith and Jim Shooter, Barry writing and drawing the book[...]

Today, Valiant Entertainment announced a new Harbinger series to join XO Manowar and Bloodshot You can see a preview below, it's by Joshua Dysart and Khari Evans and coming out in June Here's the pitch. Skipping across America in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the authorities, Peter Stanchek is learning that he's much more[...]

Valiant seem to have thought so too. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself.  If you are unable to do so, please return your[...]

This is the Valiant promo for the talking X-O Manowar poster, that uses a QR Code to launch a video on an smartphone, becoming the mouth of the character; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8oHwNeYck[/youtube] Drawn by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, scripted by Robert Venditti and animated by Neal Adams' Continuity Studios This is a video of it in action at the most recent[...]

But the Bloodshot glasses from Valiant are not yet They're probably still filled by peach schnappes in retailers' hotel rooms…   Retailers at the ComicsPRO meet in Dallas this weekend are getting all sorts of cool swag And some of them, specifically the ComicsPro variant edition of Artifacts #13 and Witchblade #151 are already on eBay[...]