Mags - Comics Buyer's Guide #996

Here's another scan of a magazine with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's issue #996 of Comics Buyer's Guide and it features Turok by Bart Sears and Rai by Sean Chen.

Mags - Comics Buyer's Guide #1699

Here's another scan of a magazine with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's issue #1699 of Comics Buyer's Guide and it features the Lewis LaRossa cover to Harbinger Wars #1.

Mags - Comic Shop News #1368

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1368 with a UNITY #1 cover by Marcos Martin!

Mags - Comic Shop News #1340

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1359 with a Harbinger Wars #1 cover by Lewis LaRosa!

Mags - Comic Shop News #1359

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1359 with a Quantum and Woody #1 cover by Marcos Martin!

Original Art - Solar: Man of the Atom #8 cover

One of the reasons I started this was so that there would be somewhere I could store all the awesome original black and white cover line art scans I ran across. I'm making some progress on a complete collection of black and white ink art posts of every pre-UNITY Valiant comic. So far I've got X-O Manowar #1, X-O Manowar #2, X-O Manowar #4 and Harbinger #6. Here is another post (sort of) in that series. This time it's the cover art for Solar: Man of the Atom by Stan Drake and Don Perlin. Behold the cover in all its black and white glory:

Valiant Market - X-O Manowar #1 page 26

A new post in my series on recent interesting Valiant sales (you can find the first in the series here, the second here and the third here). This one was suggested by a reader so much thanks to him for pointing this sale out! These posts are meant to track original art sales of pages that are in high demand and appear very rarely such as pages from UNITY or Deathmate Prologue, splash pages etc.

Today we have a page from X-O Manowar #1 by Barry Windsor-Smith. A little while ago I posted another page from the same book, the very next page in the book in fact. That page sold for a final price of $1,525. Today's page is equally exciting, has a little less X-O Manowar but a little more action and our first clear look at a Spider Alien face! Check out the beautiful page here:

Today's page sets a new record at $1,625 plus shipping on ebay. That is by far the highest price I have ever seen for an interior page of Valiant Barry Windsor-Smith art. Higher than his splash pages have sold for. More than double this Deathmate page he did with Jim Lee. Almost double this UNITY page, which is more exciting, from a more important book and is one of just 16. And in line with the price of page 27 from the same book.

Mags - Comic Shop News #1332

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1332 with a X-O Manowar #9 cover by Trevor Hairsine

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Mags - Comic Shop News #1345

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1345 with a Archer & Armstrong #0 cover.

Mags - Comic Shop News #1352

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1352 with a Harbinger Wars #3 cover.

Valiant Market - Magnus Robot Fighter #19 cover Original Art

Heritage recently auctioned a nice Barry Windsor-Smith Wizard Magazine X-O Manowar cover and now we have the final price for another Heritage Auction. This time the cover to Magnus Robot Fighter #19 by Ralph Reese. Sold for a very surprising $2,151!

Interesting to note that the piece was sold as part of the Shamus Modern Masterworks Collection....as in Gareb Shamus, founder of Wizard Magazine.

Valiant Market - Wizard the Comics Magazine #7 original art

Time for another Valiant Market post! This time we have the Heritage Auction for Barry Windsor-Smith's X-O Manowar cover to Wizard the Comics Magazine #7. A good looking piece of art, one of the first X-O Manowar pieces ever created and a well known cover. Sold for a very surprising $3,585!

Interesting to note that the piece was sold as part of the Shamus Modern Masterworks Collection....as in Gareb Shamus, founder of Wizard Magazine.

Mags - Entertainment Retailing #9

Cover to Entertainment Retailing #9 with a cover featuring characters and events from Chaos Effect. Published by Wizard Magazine.

Mags - Comic Shop News #223

Cover to Comic Shop News #223 featuring the cover to Harbinger #1 by David Lapham.

Mags - Comic Shop News #248

Cover to Comic Shop News #248 featuring the cover to Archer & Armstrong #0 by Barry Windsor-Smith.

Original Art - Rai #6 cover

I'm trying to put together a complete collection of black and white ink art posts of every pre-UNITY Valiant comic. So far I've got X-O Manowar #1, X-O Manowar #2, X-O Manowar #4 and Harbinger #6. Here is another post (sort of) in that series. This time it's the cover art for a UNITY book - Rai #6 by Frank Miller. Now what's interesting about the UNITY covers is they were all done by only 3 different artists (Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Miller and Walt Simonson) and none of them were ever sold until now. This cover is the first (that I know of) to reach the collector market and therefore the first to be scanned in all its black and white glory.

Behold.

Harada Protocol Teaser

Valiant's latest teaser hints at something very bad happening to Toyo Harada in Harbinger Wars #2...something to do with the Harada Protocol.

Harbinger Wars #2

Shadowman Teaser

One of my favorite teasers that Valiant released was this 'interactive' teaser that announced the Shadowman series:

Shadowman

The teaser seems all black until you look a little more carefully and see Shadowman come out of the darkeness!! Check out the inverted version:

Inverted teaser

Are You Different Teaser

I'm on a run with the teasers (see here and here) so why not show off the teaser that announced the return of Faith Herbert aka Zephyr to Harbinger and to the Valiant Universe!

Faith Herbert aka Zephyr

Enter: Ninjak Teaser

Valiant has some proved that they are capable of stellar design work. One of the best examples is the teasers they use to build excitement for their events. You can check out the Summer of Valiant 2012 Teasers here. But for now, feast your eyes on one of my favorite covers from the new Valiant, the cover to X-O Manowar #5 and the start of the Enter: Ninjak arc.

X-O Manowar #5 "Enter: Ninjak"

It should also be noted that this was the new Valiant's first crossover. Unless, of course, you count that Eternal Warrior cameo in X-O Manowar #1.

Summer of Valiant 2012 Teasers

Valiant has exhibited some incredible design work (they went out and got Rian Hughes to design their covers and probably these too) and I'm going to showcase a little bit of that here with the four Summer of Valiant 2012 teasers they released to announce the launch titles they returned with.

X-O Manowar by Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic

Harbinger by Doug Braithwaite

Bloodshot by Arturo Lozzi

Archer & Armstrong by David Aja

Mags - Comic Shop News #1289

Here's another scan of an issue of Comic Shop News with a Valiant Comics cover. This time it's Comic Shop News issue #1289 with a X-O Manowar (2012) cover featuring the cover art from the X-O Manowar #1 1:50 variant 'talking' cover.

Mags - Comic Buyers Guide #1033

Features a cool Shadowman & Aerosmith cover promoting Shadowman #19.

Teaser: Call in the H.A.R.D. Corps!

H.A.R.D. Corps to appear in Harbinger Wars #3?

Ads - One Dollar Debut

Valiant will release all the 2012 issue #1's for just $1 each in May of 2013!

Tee Shirt: Valiant logo in Harbinger Wars blue

This awesome shirt will debut at Wondercon in 2013.

Teaser: World's Worst Teaser

Teaser for a Quantum & Woody something?