After nearly ten years without publishing any books, Valiant Comics is preparing for their return to comics. Earlier today Valiant Comics announced their return to publishing as Valiant Entertainment with former Marvel CEO and Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo at the helm as Chairman. The announcement comes at a time where comic markets have stabilized, and non-superhero books seem to be strengthening.

Cuneo first joined Marvel in 2009 as their Chief Executive Officer around the time Marvel first filed for bankruptcy. Cuneo managed to help turn the company around and continued to serve on the company's Board of Directors until Marvel's sale to The Walt Disney Company was finalized in 2009. Following his departure from Marvel, Cuneo has acted as Managing Principal of Cuneo & Company, LLC., the same company that has invested in Valiant Entertainment.

Valiant Announces Investment and Expansion of Management Team
New York, NY – June 2, 2011 – Valiant Entertainment, the character-based entertainment company with more than 1,500 characters in its library, announced it will reintroduce the critically acclaimed Valiant Universe in print and digital comics in 2012. Valiant has hired accomplished industry executives and creative talent to expand its management team. The first announcement is that former Marvel CEO and Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo has assumed the role of Chairman of Valiant.

Valiant Entertainment, co-founded by Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani, has received a capital infusion from private investment company Cuneo & Company, LLC. Peter Cuneo, Managing Principal of Cuneo & Co., recently concluded ten years of leadership at Marvel Entertainment.

Valiant first launched during the comics boom in 1989 and saw success for about ten years, selling over 80 million comics within the first five years of it's inception. The company was eventually purchased by Acclaim Entertainment in 1994, and in 1996 Valiant Comics was renamed to Acclaim Comics and began streamlining their properties to cater to the development of new Acclaim video game franchises; such as Shadowman and Turok the Dinosaur Hunter, for example. Valiant saw it's decline coincide with the decline of the comics industry, and it's parent company Acclaim filed for bankruptcy in 2004. During the years of it's publication, Valiant predominantly published superhero comic books that were grounded by consequence, continuity and the laws of physics. It will be interesting to see if Valiant returns to it's superhero roots, or if they will focus on other, different genres. What do you think of the return of Valiant? Did you read Valiant in the 1990's? Did you have a favorite title? Do you look forward to it's return?

Valiant Director Dinesh Shamdasani plans to announce Valiant Entertainment's 2012 scheduled launch soon.

  The moment I saw, former Marvel CEO I instantly thought of Stan Lee.  Shame on me.

  The moment I saw, former Marvel CEO I instantly thought of Stan Lee.  Shame on me.

They must be counting every single person that ever appeared in their comics to hit 1500 characters lol, there aren't that are well know and most of those have already transfered over to Dark Horse (Magnus, Solar, Turok) so I am curious to see what is left. I was more a fan of the Acclaim years but I would like to see the return of Master Darque (if they can get Manco back), Ninjak, X-O, Geomancer, The Troublemakers, Quantum and Woody and if they bring back Waterworld I am sold :D

played some of the video games they made, but didn't get to read any of their comics. this should be interesting..

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This is great

To lazy to google but is X-O Manowar a Valiant book?
 
I always liked the design.

The Valiant Universe is still one of my favourite comic book continuities, this news can be the beginning of a new era for it. Great!!

Ninjak!!!

Am I really bad in saying I have no idea about Valiant comics? 

What is Valiant without Magnus and Solar? If they don't have those characters I'm not sure I'll be reading many of their books. Harbinger and X-O will be on my pull list, though. If they come back.

Archer and Armstrong please!!! (and may it be written by Barry Windsor-Smith)

Archer and Armstrong please!!! (and may it be written by Barry Windsor-Smith)

Love to see their lineup posted. Would also love to see the First comic lineup added to Valiant.

Hmmm color me intrigued. 

x-o-manowar baby!

Valiant's coming back? Yeah baby! I absolutely loved Valiant in the 90s and have several issues, but probably my favorite is the whole first volume of X-O Manowar.  I really look forward to this.

Without the Main three characters (Magnus, Solar, Turok) . It will be interesting to see where Valiant Comics will be heading .  Just think about it . DC comics without Superman . Batman and Wonder Woman . Or Marvel without  Iron Man ,  Captain America  Spider - man. I don't know. But I wouldn't mind giving it a look .

Dr.Eclipse is coming Battle Forums.  The Acclaim line sucked!!!! the VEI line is focused on the V1 line according to the site(which has now been locked. used to have full bios on everyone). So no Turok, Magnus, Solar for sure. I would expect to see Master Darque, Dr. Eclipse, The Spider Aliens, X-O Manowar (Aric), Rai, Bloodshot, The Immortal brothers, Archer, Shadowman I and II, etc.      Very exciting. But without Jim Shooter my expectations will be low.

X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Hard Corps, Armorines...  and then some...
They're the reason I started reading comic books.  I still have most of them in mint condition...
 
CANT WAIT

Bloodshot

@turoksonofstone said:

Dr.Eclipse is coming Battle Forums.  The Acclaim line sucked!!!! the VEI line is focused on the V1 line according to the site(which has now been locked. used to have full bios on everyone). So no Turok, Magnus, Solar for sure. I would expect to see Master Darque, Dr. Eclipse, The Spider Aliens, X-O Manowar (Aric), Rai, Bloodshot, The Immortal brothers, Archer, Shadowman I and II, etc.      Very exciting. But without Jim Shooter my expectations will be low.

Awww Acclaim wasn't that bad, come on Quantum and Woody and the G.O.A.T. !!! and Master Darque under Leonardo Manco was incredible, I've still got original signed art from Master Darque and Darque Passages.

@Dude4:  We could always read Dynamite's Public Domain characters form Project Super Powers lol but yeah, Comics used to have such a wide rang of diversity even within the sub genres. I hope that Valiant can keep it going and open the door for other small companies to carve out a niche. Ever since T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents resumed under Nick Spencer I've been thinking about things like this. 

They don't own those guys I think Acclaim does...Are you familiar with the legal hangups these properties have had? 

Uhhh... Turok??? :P *doesn't know much about the Valiant stuff*

Unexpected?
 
They shoulda just joined Dark Horse, for the best..

Damn that's interesting.

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Dr.Eclipse is coming Battle Forums.  The Acclaim line sucked!!!! the VEI line is focused on the V1 line according to the site(which has now been locked. used to have full bios on everyone). So no Turok, Magnus, Solar for sure. I would expect to see Master Darque, Dr. Eclipse, The Spider Aliens, X-O Manowar (Aric), Rai, Bloodshot, The Immortal brothers, Archer, Shadowman I and II, etc.      Very exciting. But without Jim Shooter my expectations will be low.

I Hope They make it like the Old valiant U was, Before Acclaim took over and tried to turn it into the Image U. I Liked Eternal Warrior, Archer & Armstrong and Timewalker, Geomancer, Shadowman, H.A.R.D. Corps, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Ninjak, Rai, Psi Lords.  Would Love to see a real Intercontinuity that is revealed over time Like Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica. The should get Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Brian K. Vaughn, Mark Millar to write it.

NINJAK! can't wait

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Valiant Entertainment, the character-based entertainment company with more than 1,500 characters in its library, 
 Can anyone list some of the Character from the 1500 library , Because  I can't 

I think X-O Manowar was the best all-original book that they had, but I do not think that it can carry a comic line.  If the Gold Key characters aren't part of the line, I don't see this lasting very long.  I'd have much rather seen the rest of the Valiant line fold into Dark Horse.

This is very surprising news and a huge gamble.

Valiant, like Image, spurned forth an excess amount of comics and essentially flooded the market as well, but people still got into the comics. They weren't bad ( although there will be some contention about some titles), but I don't know which properties they would choose to relaunch.

I think Solar, Man of the Atom was really good. I will check them out if they are affordable, but I am just thinking this is a risky move in today's comic book market. I wish them success.

@turoksonofstone: Interesting, thanks for the fill-in. I read RAI but only when he crossed over into the other titles. My Valiant comics were sporadic but I enjoyed them even if they got a bit of a bad rap. Well, Ninjak always got a bad rap.

I am still surprised. I think RAI could be potential movie material, perhaps that is why they are trying this?

Also, does this mark the return of the Chromium Cover?

@turoksonofstone: With Solar, unfortunately, some people would say he's too much like Dr. Manhattan. Actually, Alan Moore did base Manhattan off a number of characters, so there is little surprise there. The Destroyer version, well, have to say I am not familiar with it. My Valiant reading was sporadic but I enjoyed what I did read...well, Ninjak being an exception...Ha Ha! I love dissing on Ninjak.

I would love to see a Turok Dinoasur Hunter movie. While my video gaming has also been sporadic I have played the video game and do know the character a little. I think it could be a joy ride just to watch nothing but mayhem!

Harbinger and Hard Corps would be a bit of a challenge. I'd say Rai, Turok, and possibly Archer and Armstrong would be good potential materials for movies. Just my opinion.