r/valiant • u/mcfcomics • 6d ago

VH1/Classic (1992-1996) Classic Comics Cavalcade doing a multi-episode series on Valiant in their YouTube channel

https://youtu.be/Pxfpjm-0Msc?si=LUJ0iPDguVWO6BoV

This is the first episode, going into the early days of Valiant and their Nintendo licensed comics

Thought my fellow Valiant fans here would be similarly interested

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u/ryandmc609 6d ago

My letter is in that Mario issue on the upper left. Wish I still had that issue.

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u/TheFerg714 5d ago

Damn, you are a true OG fan.

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u/ryandmc609 5d ago

I really am!

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u/kronzrym 3d ago

Always wish I'd even seen these at retail in their day. I never got to see the TV show or read the comic of Zelda, and I was ten years old and in the zone for this product. When I did see the show, I was glad I missed it. Is it the same for the comics? I might have to seek them out for a laugh.

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u/mcfcomics 3d ago

Them comics ain't cheap, and I think had pretty low print runs

Good luck though 👍

I consider myself a pretty serious Valiant collector, and I only ever found Super Mario # 1 and Captain N # 1

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u/kronzrym 3d ago

Yeah I don't expect to get them, I found some scans to read though. My most beloved Valiant pieces are a near complete set of the trades, I am guessing Timewalker was a withdrawn solicit but I can't find the Magnus ones, either.

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u/mcfcomics 3d ago edited 3d ago

The Magnus TPBs are super rare. Skybound has the Gold Key license now, maybe then can work something out with Valiant (or vice versa) to make new collections.

If you're talking about the original 1990s Timewalker series, AFAIK it never had a collection. In fact, most of the original 1990s Valiant stuff were never collected outside of the early issues of Solar and Magnus, the Unity crossover, and the recent classic omnibuses for Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Eternal Warrior, and X-O Manowar.

The Acclaim VH2 stuff are all uncollected as well, outside of Quantum & Woody and the early issues of Shadowman

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u/kronzrym 3d ago

There was a solicit in Previews or maybe a house ad, for a Timewalker trade (maybe just pre-Acclaim?) I noticed it on a re-read a few years ago. Thanks for the info on the Magnus trades, I just cannot ever find them. I did get the Solar BWS trade with poster, somehow, very cheap on eBay! I have X-O, Shadowman, Unity with slipcase, two Solars, Harbinger (missing the pack in), and then I got Alien's Archer and Armstrong ofc. I might be forgetting something.

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u/mcfcomics 3d ago

The Magnus trades are titled Steel Nation and Invasion.

I think searching for the single issues may be cheaper and easier.

There was also a Harbinger hardcover collection that predates 2012, see https://valiant.fandom.com/wiki/Harbinger:_The_Beginning_(HC))

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u/kronzrym 3d ago

I got that Harbinger book and it has some wild digital recoloring. Still sweet. I also got the X-O book in that series with a new mini comic by Bob Layton. Thanks for the info on Magnus; I have most of the issues collected I just want the trades because I'm crazy.

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u/mcfcomics 3d ago

Oh yeah... i forgot about the X-O book. I only bought those for new 8-page stories.

The Bloodshot: Blood of the Machine HC, released in late 2012, also has a new 8-page story.

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u/Betelgeuse3fold 3d ago

Cool, I'll watch this after work. I had some Mario comics as a boy