Pre-Unity VALIANT

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

I just bought a small lot of books, which include the UNITY run and several PRE-UNITY issues. I'm going to flip the VALIANT stuff, since I have no personal interest.

 

I'm doing my research @ valiantfan.com, but I was wondering which ones are the actual good sellers amongst the PRE-UNITY issues, besides the GOLD and SENDAWAY issues. I haven't gone through the entire box yet, but the first HARBINGER issues are there (I think).

 

Thanks for the input!

[Bosco685]

I'm doing my research @ valiantfan.com, but I was wondering which ones are the actual good sellers amongst the PRE-UNITY issues, besides the GOLD and SENDAWAY issues. I haven't gone through the entire box yet, but the first HARBINGER issues are there (I think).

 

Thanks for the input!

Send them to me and I'll tell you.

 

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

Well, the ones that are SUPPOSED to have the coupons, HAVE them (ie) MAGNUS #1-3.

[Bosco685]

That is good, because Magnus 1-4 and then 12 were some fantastic reading. Magnus 0 has a great story as well.

 

Shadowman 1-12 have some good storytelling as well.

 

Solar 1-10 is some over-the-top story content as well.

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

I guess I'll have to read those titles one day. But man, I have such a hard time getting over the "" label associated with VALIANT, simply because of the great volumes printed for the post-UNITY issues.

 

EVERY collection seems to have piles of these....

[Bosco685]

Any Gold variants?

[Schmakt]

I actually liked Shadowman pretty much the whole way through... and the first 12 of A&A when BWS was on the title. Then again, I liked a lot of the VALIANT stuff...

[kimik]

I liked X-O Manowar the most, with Magnus a close second. Harbinger seemed overrated to me, but I missed out on it early and did not snag any copies of #0 pink, #1 - 10 until 1997 - 2000 when they were penny books.

[Escaflown4]

Yup the pre-Unity Valiants are the only books I can read over and over again without ever getting tired or bored. Definitely some of the best stories ever written in the early 90's.

[Hawkman]

archer & armstrong was great it's whole run. magnus was great (mostly) until the late teens, then it went south (some). i still enjoyed the malev war, and a few issues after it ended. the last issue was good too. shadowman i also enjoyed all the way through. x-o manowar was great/good/decent until around #25-30. first 20 issues are really great. most of the other titles were good here and there. bloodshot was enjoyable to me for 10-15 issues, but it was never great. i haven't read much eternal warrior, but what i've read was really good. i still have solar #1 that i bought off the shelves. great book for about 10 issues. rai had beautiful covers for about 6-7 issues. dr. mirage was an interesting concept, in that there wasn't a central white character in it (asian male and hispanic female for leads). i never cared for harbinger. hard corps was okay. the idea was cool. also, unity was fairly enjoyable. i've read most of the issue connected to it.

 

 

my favorite valiant titles:

 

1. shadowman

2. magnus

3. archer & armstrong

4. x-o manowar

5. bloodshot

[thehumantorch]

archer & armstrong was great it's whole run. magnus was great (mostly) until the late teens, then it went south (some). i still enjoyed the malev war, and a few issues after it ended. the last issue was good too. shadowman i also enjoyed all the way through. x-o manowar was great/good/decent until around #25-30. first 20 issues are really great. most of the other titles were good here and there. bloodshot was enjoyable to me for 10-15 issues, but it was never great. i haven't read much eternal warrior, but what i've read was really good. i still have solar #1 that i bought off the shelves. great book for about 10 issues. rai had beautiful covers for about 6-7 issues. dr. mirage was an interesting concept, in that there wasn't a central white character in it (asian male and hispanic female for leads). i never cared for harbinger. hard corps was okay. the idea was cool. also, unity was fairly enjoyable. i've read most of the issue connected to it.

 

 

my favorite valiant titles:

 

1. shadowman

2. magnus

3. archer & armstrong

4. x-o manowar

5. bloodshot

 

I loved Archer and Armstrong. Magnus and Solar were a close second.

 

Valiant had so many great titles; I was very sorry to see them go under.

[Bosco685]

I loved Archer and Armstrong. .

Archer & Armstrong 0 was my very first Valiant that I read, and I was blown away by the hard-hitting story in that issue of how Archer was treated by his parents. Armstrong just had me laughing, so that offset the rough parts of the story.

 

From there, I was hooked.

[thehumantorch]

I loved Archer and Armstrong. .

Archer & Armstrong 0 was my very first Valiant that I read, and I was blown away by the hard-hitting story in that issue of how Archer was treated by his parents. Armstrong just had me laughing, so that offset the rough parts of the story.

 

From there, I was hooked.

 

Archer and Armstrong was far better than the average mindless superhero plot where hero meets villian, bashing ensues and then villian runs away.

[Schmakt]

I loved Archer and Armstrong. .

Archer & Armstrong 0 was my very first Valiant that I read, and I was blown away by the hard-hitting story in that issue of how Archer was treated by his parents. Armstrong just had me laughing, so that offset the rough parts of the story.

 

From there, I was hooked.

 

Archer and Armstrong was far better than the average mindless superhero plot where hero meets villian, bashing ensues and then villian runs away.

 

and it bears repeating... BWS!

[RockMyAmadeus]

There are some dorks who run a Valiant podcast, talking about Valiant, the upcoming Dark Key, and lots of other stuff.

 

I hear it's marginally worth listening to, but hey, what do I know...?

 

www.onlythevaliant.com

 

Might want to check it out, Valiant fans....

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

Any Gold variants?

Nope.

 

I've actually NEVER seen any in 'real life'.....

[Bosco685]

Let me get my two copies back from CGC in the next month. Hopefully, I'll have some good pictures to post.

[kimik]

Have any other copies of the Turok #1 VVSS with the Second Life of Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS coupon turned up aside from the one I found in 2003 or so?

[valiantman]

Have any other copies of the Turok #1 VVSS with the Second Life of Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS coupon turned up aside from the one I found in 2003 or so?

 

There is a Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS certificate that is not cut...

I believe the first one that was found had been almost cut in two, right?

 

There are also 100 fan-created reproductions of that certificate with a copy

of the book signed by Bernard Chang. These 100 certificates have a small

paragraph on the back describing the reproduction and no foil on the front.

[kimik]

Have any other copies of the Turok #1 VVSS with the Second Life of Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS coupon turned up aside from the one I found in 2003 or so?

 

There is a Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS certificate that is not cut...

I believe the first one that was found had been almost cut in two, right?

 

There are also 100 fan-created reproductions of that certificate with a copy

of the book signed by Bernard Chang. These 100 certificates have a small

paragraph on the back describing the reproduction and no foil on the front.

 

My copy had a cut, but not almost all the way through if I recall correctly. I was contacted by another poster on the valiantcomics.com boards a couple of months later that said they had a copy as well. His/her story was that they were planned but later destroyed when the VVSS issue was not released, but some staffers thought it would be fun to insert a couple of COAs with the other VVSS issues. Not sure if they actually did have one or if the story was true since there were no scans to validate it.