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ManofTheAtom wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 2:28 pm SCOOP: Valiant's Beyond Preview Edition Ashcan At San Diego Comic-Con

• Valiant Beyond Preview Edition Ashcan is free at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, limited to 2000 copies only

Let's hop in our time machines and go get them.

I changed the title from "Jim Shooter is dead" to "Jim Shooter has died"
It's just a minor change, but it matches the feeling better in my opinion.

I'm happy to say that I did get to meet Jim Shooter several years ago.
I believe it was in 2009 in New York.

greg_and_jim_shooter.jpg

I'm sorry to ...

Ahh, yes. Thanks greg. Very interesting history and thank you for everything.

I was trying to look up some books for signing. I will double-check the books to make sure they are correct.

It looks like Archive.org does have some working code for the artist lists. This is as good as it ever ...

Ahh, yes. Thanks greg. Very interesting history and thank you for everything.

I was trying to look up some books for signing. I will double-check the books to make sure they are correct.

It looks like Archive.org does have some working code for the artist lists. This is as good as it ever was ...

Yes, I googled and that's where I found the info. I still think it used to be on here before.


More than 20 years ago, in the before times. Where the children of tomorrow dream away.

I had to rewrite the Valiant website from Windows-based to Linux-based somewhere after 2004.
That was the same ...

We updated from 3.3.10 to 3.3.14, which might be the first update in two years. Nothing looked different, but I didn't do a lot of testing. When the board came back up with all the current posts, I figured it was good to go.

Sorry to see this --- I definitely remember the Theebaldmoose here on the board, but I don't know if I had the chance to meet him at a convention. 50 is too young.

First and foremost for me is that VALIANT was "the world outside your window" and DEFIANT (Plasm) was "what's a window?"

I want to say 1994, because Valiant celebrated its 3rd anniversary with a VHS video, etc.


(From Sonicdan's archive photos)

So weird. The last two posts are quotes of previous comments but with no new comments by the people that made them.


Sorry, those comments are from me. It was supposed to be one comment which I quickly edited a couple of times to add a little more (as I have done in the past without issues ...

Chiclo wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2024 8:18 pm When did you start hating fun so much, greg?

The admin around here must be getting old and soft.

Has anyone ever heard the fable of the boy who cried "wolf"?
How about the one where the chicken screamed that the sky was falling?

Once again, we're looking at an all-caps scare-topic from a user who can't produce a single wolf hair or sky piece.

It is likely that verified counterfeit Valiants ...

The one I posted came from the publisher according to the VVSS COA picture posted. I never saw another one in all the years I hunted Valiant rarities.

To be 100% sure, look on the back of the VVSS COA. :thumb:
Greg, you were right. I’ve never opened it since buying it probably about 15 years ...

geocarr wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:21 am The one I posted came from the publisher according to the VVSS COA picture posted. I never saw another one in all the years I hunted Valiant rarities.

To be 100% sure, look on the back of the VVSS COA.

Dallow Spicer1 wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:01 pm

greg wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:41 am viewtopic.php?p=1122430#p1122430

So no celebration then?? Ok roll on 25 years

What would a celebration look like?

Bloodshot # 0 platinum MINT 10.0

This book doesn't exist in CGC.
Was this graded by another company?


While almost all of the books are cgc graded, this one is graded by "CGGROUP WORLD" which is apparently an old name for pgx world. I will likely get this one regraded considering their ...

notadragon wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:27 am Bloodshot # 0 platinum MINT 10.0

This book doesn't exist in CGC.
Was this graded by another company?

I'm 99% sure I met Mr. Perlin at a comic convention. Class act, for sure. We'll miss you, Mr. Perlin!

magnusr wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:02 am

greg wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:14 am It's nice to hear that I was right 20 years ago and I'm still right today.

My first instinct is to think we were very young 20 years ago, but...

/Magnus

Some of us drove (and gave driving directions) like we could benefit from more experience.

If it were me I would give him everything through Unity plus Rai #0, some of the early Bob Hall Shadowman (#10 and up), some early Bloodshot, and the BWS Archer & Armstrong. Then like Greg said let him decide if he has any favorite characters he wants to continue, or maybe continue the whole ...

Ok, it looks like the messageboard is alive again.

However, I'm using a new database... so the old stuff is... GONE!

Well, maybe we can enjoy some of the same conversations even better
the second time around! :wink:

EVERYONE, including myself, is required to register on this board again...
so ...

A recent auction I was watching.

David Lapham pencils/Kathryn Bolinger w/Maria Beccari inks; Rai page 3; 1992; image size 10" x 15"
Rare pre-Unity Valiant art!

From the Rai #4 flipbook, attached to Magnus #8, featuring the story 'Supernova, Invasion part 8,' written by Valiant founder Jim ...

GGSAE wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:56 pm Why is comic link not on GPA?

When GPA started, they asked Comiclink to join and Comiclink said "we will give you SOME of the sales, but not everything". GPA said "no thanks". Comiclink wanted to manipulate GPA.

bobby97801 wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:46 pm

greg wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:13 am Have we seen this before? It's single-sided, so it doesn't look like the little folded previews we have seen.

It wasn't a standalone. I have it and it is an inside insert of a folded flyer.

Which flyer do you have it inside?