Valiant Entertainment
Valiant is a leading character-based entertainment company with a library of over 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong and many more. Established in 1989, Valiant has sold over 81 million comic books, and today its characters continue to be forged in publishing, licensing, film, video games, and beyond. Since its summer 2012 relaunch, Valiant has returned to the fore as one of the most highly regarded publishers in comics, winning a 2012 Diamond Gem Award for Comic Book Publisher of the Year. Visit them online at ValiantEntertainment.com. Want to contact Valiant Entertainment? Email us at inquiries@valiantentertainment.com.www.valiantentertainment.com
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Sep 28, 2026
Jeff MayHOST
Now, he leaves Marvel...
Jeff MayHOST
And he ends up founding Valiant Comics.
Jeff MayHOST
Weird.
Jeff MayHOST
He does something that we kind of saw in G.I. Joe or Real American Hero.
Jeff MayHOST
He starts reimplementing because Valiant originally was licensed.
Jeff MayHOST
They got the Nintendo and WWF characters.
Jeff MayHOST
Let me tell you, by the way, those Nintendo comics from Valiant are some of the most valuable comics of the 80s.
Jeff MayHOST
I'm looking those up right now.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
I just started with the comic book thing.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
Once I started putting out my own independent stuff, I got a huge opportunity to write for Valiant Comics, which is for your listeners, they may not know, but Valiant has the third longest running superhero universe next to Marvel and DC.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
They've been around since the 90s.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
And I got to write characters like Ninjak, who is basically kind of like a Batman meets 007 character.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
And then you have the Ninjak versus Roku comics I got to write.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
Okay.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
And yeah, and these are for Valiant Comics, which is, like I said, a mainstream superhero comic book universe.
A.J. AmpaduGUEST
I was reading Valiant Comics back in the 90s.
speaker_0HOST
Last time, Carl Smith and I talked about the rise of Valiant Comics.
speaker_0HOST
We talked about Valiant's work with Nintendo Comics, with the World Wrestling Federation.
speaker_0HOST
It's near bankruptcy.
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Carl SmithHOST
One tangent we forgot to mention is, did Shooter survive this event, even as good as it is?
speaker_0HOST
Yeah, that's the craziest thing about it.
speaker_0HOST
Jim Shooter was pretty much the force behind the creation of Voyager Communications and Valiant Comics.
speaker_0HOST
We worked for two years to put the line together, spent 100 hours a week sitting at his desk.
speaker_0HOST
As he likes to tell the story, never had time for a haircut.
AdamHOST
You end up at Marvel.
AdamHOST
You end up doing some work for Valiant.
AdamHOST
What were some of these early projects? What were you being pulled in to, to work on?
Scott KolinsGUEST
So, um, after my second year of the school, and it was a three-year school at the time, um, uh, several of my, uh, friends at the school, um, got summer work, uh, starting that summer, at Valiant Comics, which was nearly brand new.
Scott KolinsGUEST
They had, I don't know, four issues or something of Magnus out.
Scott KolinsGUEST
I don't think the first issue of Solar had come out, maybe the first or second issue.
Scott KolinsGUEST
Uh, but I didn't get X-O.
Scott KolinsGUEST
That all moved on without me.