~~~~~Can you remember Valiant~~~~~

[hillbillyhatfield]

Do you remember Valiant Comics. Characters like Archer & Armstrong, Bloodshot, Eternal Warrior, HarbingerMagnus Robot Fighter Rai Shadowman Solar Man of The Atom
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter X-O Manowar. They were some of the best written and drawn comics. But they were bought by Acclaim and killed them. Actually Collectors(people who Collect that doesn't read the comics) not the fans killed them. made the demand high, with a higher demand they made more comics, when the price went down they bailed on them. This was a bad time for comics, even Marvel went bankrupt. I would love if someone would revive the comics, not the way Acclaim did, but bring back the originals. Couoldn't you see a Spawn VS X-O, or Solar, and the greatest Shadowman.
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AND THE ONE PERSON WHO COULD TAKE THE NIGHT FROM THE BAT
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AND THE ONE VILLIAN THAT COULD MAKE SPAWN LICK HIS A.$.$. AND MAKE HIM LIKE IT
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[hillbillyhatfield]

THE BEST TUROK COVERhttp://www.gregholland.com/valiant/images/comics/promos/turok1.jpg

[Jon Self]

I remember them but wasn't into them. Brings back memories of reading Wizard.

[payton34smith22]

X-O Manowar was cool, plus I love Bart Sears art. Magnus Robot Fighter had good art too, but I don't remember the artist name. That one was alright too.

[hillbillyhatfield]

you have include barry windsor smith

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[Vezinas Ghost]

Simply great books, Jim Shooter was the brains behind Valiant, and they kicked him out when he wanted to reduce the publication numbers, and put a cap on the number of titles they were offering. The other Valiant partners got greedy, and wanted to get as much money out of the company as they could, they (with the help of "speculators" and Wizard) killed the company. There were probably 5 comics printed for every one person actually reading them. It is really REALLY sad. Their whole universe was so tightly interwoven and so well designed. My understanding is John Taddeo (former Marketing Manager for Marvel) was trying to buy the rights to the characters in the Valiant Universe, not sure whatever become of that.

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[Vezinas Ghost]

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[spawn5061]

i think there still around, just not doing anything.

[hillbillyhatfield]

i would have to come out of retirment if they started making the comics again
But I agree collectors really killed the comic industry. plus special covers/different covers

[Vezinas Ghost]

have a few of these in my b/s/t if you guys are interested...the one with the hero to whom has hiv was interesting.

Which Valiant hero had HIV?

[hillbillyhatfield]

yes one rai/future force. and it wasn't AIDS

[spawn5061]

i know were i can get a bunch of these comics. which title should i pick up?

[hillbillyhatfield]

there all good until acclaim bought them. That is why there so cheap. they were at one time the most looked for comics.
Eternal warrior, protects the speaker of the earth(a person who talks to objects) By car the best title
Shadowman. Vodoo guy that fights about everything at night
Archer&armstrong. Eternal warriors wino brother, and young monk
Magnus robot fighter....
Solar. Man who can manipilate any form of energy, atoms, matter.(he is godlike)
XO manowar. Roman empire aged barbarian finding a alien suit of armor adjusting to modern day.
any of these will be good reads

[hillbillyhatfield]

i would love for mcfarlande to buy some of the characters. and yes they are for sale

[spawn5061]

how much do the characers run for?

[hillbillyhatfield]

last i read on the valiant forum, the whole company with all characters were going for like 900,000

[GhostinthaMachine]

I've always like Magnus. I thought I read recently that he was getting a new book, but I could be wrong.

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[GhostinthaMachine]

Anyone remember that Iron Man/X-O Manowar sidescroller? Unfortunately, I do.

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[Yankee Rose]

Yes, I remember them. I have the books of the big Image/Valiant crossover. I also have XO Manowar vs. Iron Man.

Wizard magazine really promoted the hell out of them in the 90's. Hero Magazine too.

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[spawn5061]

how's ninjak?

[Disconnekted]

If anyone is interested in any Valiant books, I have over three full long boxes up for sale and trade. PM me if you are looking for any.

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[spawn5061]

soooo, who's ninjak?

[hillbillyhatfield]

Colin Something-was born in Japan to an official of the British government and his wife. Both his father and wife had been secretly experimented on (shots that they thought were innoculations really weren't) before they left for Japan. As a youth Colin showed incredible physical and mental development (not superhuman but exceptional). Colin's father became involved with several powerful Yakuza families and for Colin's safety, he was sent to a monastery, where he began training in the martial arts and everything your stereotypical ninja is supposed to know. Eventually his father ran afoul of one of the Yakuza families and was killed. Colin's mother was kidnapped by the same family and held as a hostage against Colin. Colin was forced to leave Japan and the girl he loved. Colin returned to the UK, inherited his father's money and connections, did a few odd jobs for British Intelligence and then told them all to bugger off.

He then began a personal crusade against an organization called WebNET, run by Dr. Silk. Dr. Silk was a genius, crippled and deranged due to a lab accident, who ran one of the world's most advanced arms distribution organizations. His most serious competition was The Weaponeer and his cadre of white-suited delivery men. Among The Weaponeer's most effective assets was the occaisonal services of the black and purple clad ninja known as Ninjak.

[Vezinas Ghost]

That's Colin King!

http://www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Ninjak/ninjak01.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[BENSIN]

They're okay, but their comics are so damn cliche`...

[hillbillyhatfield]

valiant comics, were not predictable. unlike the other comics at the time, they didn't have spandex hero's running around fighting. there wasn't anyone around like that.. it was fresh, and new

[Master Gundam]

Hell yea I remember. Ninjak, Xo, Solar, and who could forget Bloodshot.

[hillbillyhatfield]

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[hillbillyhatfield]

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[HunterMage1025]

That's Colin King!

http://www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Ninjak/ninjak01.jpg



I remember Valiant well, one of the first sets of comics i got. I had a bunch of H.A.R.D Corps issues, and Ninjak #1 - 5, still have em somewhere. i read each about 50 times, but havent been able to buy comics or get any subscriptions since. very sad.... :spawnorb: :spawnskul :spawnorb: :spawnskul

[hillbillyhatfield]

Solar, Man of the Atom

Real Name: Phil Sileski

Aliases: None

First Appearance: Solar, Man of the Atom #1

History: Physicist Phil Sileski had been a fan of the Gold Key comics published in the 1960's, particularly the adventures of Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. Now an adult Dr. Sileski designed an experimental fusion reactor along with fellow physicists, ga yle Nordheim and Erica Pierce. But an accident at the reactor unleashed forces that give Phil godlike energy powers - abilities subconsciously shared by Dr. Pierce. Unfortunately he lost control of these powers, killing everyone on Earth, including his beloved ga yle.

The power that Phil unleashed cast him through time and space into our universe, burdened with the crushing knowledge that he had destroyed his own world. To avoid repeating his world-shattering mistakes Phil merged with the Phil Seleski of this new timeline. Adopting the guise of his childhood comic book hero, Phil defended Earth from the Spider Aliens, who called him the "Destroyer" because he was bent on their total annihilation.

With her own energy powers, Erica Pierce also came to our world and drew its heroes to the Lost Land to fight in the Unity conflict. Solar ended her bid to destroy all of creation by trapping her within a miniature wormhole. Returning from the Lost Land, Phil moved with ga yle to California, where they tried to live as a normal couple.

But Solar continued to be needed. Learning of a Spider Alien base on the moon's dark side, Solar teamed up with X-O to destroy the installation. Later, manipulated by Master Darque, Phil released another Solar, the Destroyer, who then journeyed through the galaxy, seeking to annihilate the Spider Alien Homeworld.

Powers/Abilities: Solar is capable of almost anything he can think of. He can fly, manipulate reality, even time travel.http://sonicdan.com/Solar/solaroil.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Magnus, Robot Fighter

Real Name: Magnus

Identity/Class: Harbinger (Mutant human) cyborg

Occupation: Robot Fighter

Affiliations: 1A, Tekla, Slagger, member of the Future Force

Enemies: Malev Emperor

Known Relatives: Kris Hathaway (mother), Torque (father), Leeja (wife), Torque (son)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: North Am

First Appearance: Magnus, Robot Fighter #1 (Gold Key, February 1963)

Powers/Abilities: Magnus is able to smash steel robots with his bare hands. In the Valiant version it turns out that Magnus is a second generation Harbinger, the child of two twentieth century Harbingers who was taken forward in time by Solar, and thus has superhuman strength and durability..

History: "No robot may harm a human, or allow a human to come to harm... This is the unbreakable law built into every robot, and the metal-men were created solely to ease man's tasks of life."

(Valiant version) Magnus was born in the twentieth century, during the Unity War, the child of Kris Hathaway and the super-strong Harbinger known as Torque. Sensing that the future had need of the young second-generation Harbinger, Geoff the Geomancer took the child forward in time to the thirty-ninth century with the help of Solar, Man of the Atom.

(Both Gold Key and Valiant versions) Magnus was raised in isolation from the rest of his humanity by the robot 1A, an almost unique emotional robot which foresaw a time when mankind's robot slaves would tire of their subservient role and rise up against their masters. Wishing to prepare a defense for man against such an eventuality, 1A trained Magnus to be a perfect human specimen, expert in martial arts and in destroying robots. To aid him when the time came to battle rogue robot, his mentor also implanted a receiver in Magnus' brain, enabling him to secretly listen in on robot-to-robot radio communications. Once he felt Magnus was ready, 1A introduced his protege to human society. Magnus made his home in the city of North Am, where he soon began his war on rogue robots.

(Valiant version) Eventually Magnus began to question his mission. 1A was a rogue robot of sorts, after all. He started to wonder if he had the right to destroy a rogue when it wasn't threatening humanity, merely wishing to live free and not as a slave. After meeting and befriending the Freewill robot Tekla, Magnus eventually decided to end his enmity of the robots, allowing the Freewills to set up an independent city-state of Synchron, under the leadership of Tekla. Magnus, meanwhile, had grown disdainful of the North Am elite who lived in the city's Milespires, and moved to live among the "Gophs" who inhabited the city's poorer lower levels, where he made the acquaintance of Slagger, a Goph champion.

North Am was then invaded by the killer robots of the planet Malev 6, led by their Emperor and seeking to turn Earth in Malev 7, their new home. To this race of alien robots, makind was only useful as a fuel source, drained for the "ectothermic energy" of their brain waves. Joining a group known as the Future Force, Magnus led the fight against the invaders.

As time passed, Magnus learned of his twentieth century origins. He would marry and have a son, whom he named after his father. Following the Chaos Effect, Magnus was stranded for several years in the twentieth century, got elected President, and returned to his own time. When the Malevs returned, Magnus' wife was killed, and his son was forced to become a Psi-Lord to save his own life. Solar the Destroyer finally annihilated the Malevs, but Magnus vanished around the same time.http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0406/21/magnusth.jpg http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0501/13/magnus3th.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Turok

Real Name: Turok

Occupation: Hunter/Guide

Enemies: bionisaurs

Aliases: None

First Appearance: Four Color Comic #596 (Dell Comics, December 1954)

Powers/Abilities:

History: (Dell / Gold Key version) Two pre-Columbian Indian friends, Turok and Andar, were out on a hunting expedition when they accidentally found their way into a large valley surrounded by huge, unclimbable cliffs They discovered that dinosaurs still survived in the valley and that they could not find the way back out. For many years they survived in the valley, battling the dinosaurs, cavemen and other bizarre threats.

(Valiant version) In the American West of the 1860's, Kiowa Indian hunters Turok and Andar explored a cave in the desert. The cave led to another dimension. They emerged in the Lost Land, where they were menaced by dinosaurs and primitive tribesman. Later, Turok led the primitives against an incursion into the Lost Land by Dr. Lazlo Noel of North Am. Joining forces with North Am's protector, Magnus, Turok had his first encounter with futuristic technology.

Then, Erica Pierce, known as "Mothergod", arrived. Immediately changing the Lost Land to suit her plans, she erected futuristic facilities and fitted dinosaurs with intelligence-boosting implants. One of these "bionisaurs", called Mon-Ark, became Turok's greatest enemy. When Solar defeated Mothergod's genocidal "Unity" plan, the Lost Land was reduced to a state of unreality. Separated from Andar, Turok was cast through time and space to the jungles of Colombia in 1987. But he had not made the journey alone; scores of bionisaurs also appeared on Earth--including Mon-Ark.

In the Valiant version, the hidden valley proved not to be somewhere in North America, but was instead located in an alien dimension, known as The Lost Land. Turok was a man out of his time - born before the White Man conquered America. With a deadly combination of modern weaponry and ancient wisdom, he fought a vendetta against creatures birthed by an unholy union of nature and technology - the bionisaurs.http://www.psychosaurus.com/turok/images/turokdh1.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Ninjak

Real Name: Colin King

First Appearance: Ninjak #0

Occupation: Agent of British Government

Affiliations: British Government

History: Colin King is the wealthy son of Captain John King, a master spy who served in the employ of the British Government. Colin was born as part of a government-sponsored genetics program dubbed "Hope and Glory." This program has gifted Colin with genius-level intellect and peak human efficiency. Neville Alcott's daughter, Jillian, was also a successful member of this program and became the heroine known as Deathangel.

Colin was raised in the Orient, but was always an outcast in their society. When his father was killed by the mad scientist Iwatsu, Colin went into training, determined to carry on his father's tradition and bring his killers to justice. Now a master of the secret arts of the ninja, he serves England and the world as Ninjak.

He is the enforcer for the mysterious Weaponeer and the top espionage expert in the world. From martial arts to demolition and information acquisition, Ninjak's multitude of skills and keen intellect always keep him a step ahead of his opponents. And his amazing ability to prepare for any outcome in a given situation means that, no matter how outmatched he may seem, Ninjak always has an ace in the hole! Ninjak also protects himself with a unique, kevlar armored body-suit that can change colors like a chameleon. But whether his approach is stealthy or direct, Ninjak is never caught unprepared!

Powers/Abilities: Ninja warrior with a chameleon suit. He is an expert in espionage techniques and in the martial arts.http://www.gregholland.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Ninjak/ninjak26.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

X-O Manowar

Real Name: Aric Dacia the Visigoth

First Appearance: X-O Manowar #1 (February 1992)

Occupation: President of Orb Indestries

Enemies: Spider Aliens

Base of Operations: Orb Indestries

History: Aric Dacia was a Visigoth barbarian in the 5th Century. He was the nephew of Alaric, a great barbarian leader who eventually sacked Rome. He had a wife named Diedre, who was eventually killed during one of his sojourns into the past. He was abducted by Spider Aliens in A.D.408 to serve as both slave and food-source on an alien starship. But the starship on which he was a captive was attacked by Solar. Amidst the chaos, Aric stole the aliens' greatest weapon: the Manowar Class X-O Armor that he simply calls the "Good Skin". On Earth, 1600 years had passed while the alien ship traveled space at relitavistic speeds. Confused by the modern world, Aric found the sentient armor to be a very good guide. The armor taught him English and helped him adapt. Back on Earth Aric was befriended by Ken Clarkson, who sought the Armor for his Spider Alien masters. But Ken turned against the Spiders. His left arm was severed by alien laser-fire as he and Aric defeated the aliens and took the corporate empire of Orb Industries (which had been a dummy corporation for the Spider Aliens) away from them.

During the Unity conflict, Aric was nearly bitten in half by a bionisaur. Only the X-O Armor's healing abilities kept him from dying. From Unity, Aric was returned by Solar to A.D.408. But his superhuman power so terrified his fellow Visigoths that they united with their enemies, the Romans, in an unsuccessful attempt on Aric's life. Unwelcome in his own time, Aric hibernated in the Armor until the present. During this time, the X-O Armor evolved a different configuration and sprouted a Seed able to spawn another Manowar Armor. The Armor was called to the Spider moonbase by the aliens, who desired the X-O Seed. But Aric proved that even without the Armor, he could still beat the Spider Champion. With a mutual desire to eradicate the Spider Aliens, Aric and Solar destroyed the moonbase and the sixty thousand aliens within.

With no desire to return to his own time, and with the help of Ken (who helped run the day-to-day operations of Orb) and Randy Cartier (in charge of Orb's security), Aric began to accept the late 20th Century as his home. All of this was undone when a villain called Crescendo slew Randy and Ken, while destroying Orb. Aric then became a wanderer, both in space and on earth, before becoming partners for a time with a young thief named Gamin.

Aric is still out there somewhere. According to Rai # 0, Aric will rebuild Orb Industries and live into the mid 2060s thanks to the armor.

Powers/Abilities: The Manowar armour grants a variety of abilities - enhanced strength and powerful blasters amongst them. It serves as a total life support unit, protecting the wearer from space, healing injuries, and even allowing the wearer to hibernate for hundreds of years without aging.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/XOManowar/x-o02.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Rai

Real Name: Tohru Nakadai (42nd Rai); Takeo Konishi (43rd and last Rai)

First Appearance: Magnus #5 (October 1991)

Base of Operations: Japanese

History: The origins of Rai lie back in the twentieth century with Bloodshot. During the thirty-first century the nanite technology, the "Blood of Heroes", was infused in the first Rai. Since then for a thousand years thereafter, a successive line of extraordinary men have assumed the mantle of "Rai", the national protector of Japan. Tohru Nakadai was the forty-second nam to become the Japanese national champion. It is "Grandmother", the sentient computer caretaker of Japan, that transformed Tohru into Rai, imbuing him with vast and powerful energies.

During Tohru's tenure as Rai, the Spider Aliens invaded Earth for the second time. Controlled by Grandmother, the enormous robot-body that covered the Japanese islands was brought to bear against the alien starships. The alien armada was destroyed, but Japan would never be the same. Grandmother relinquished control of the nation of Japan, which now orbited Earth like a second moon....and, during the battle, Tohru's wife, Kayuzo, acquired an alien battle-armor suit (see X-O Manowar), making her nearly as powerful as Rai!

Later, during the Unity conflict, Mothergod caused Japan to fall from orbit, effectively destroying the once-proud country. Tohru attempted to avenge his slain countrymen, but was himself killed by the murderous Mothergod. Later, with Earth under attack by the evil Malev robots, Geomancer Rokland Tate infused Takao Konishi with the fabled "Blood of Heroes", dubbing Takao as the "Last Rai". Now Takao wields the powers of the nanite-laced blood that once coursed through Bloodshot's veins. With the cry of "Mindlock!", he can mentally control the Malev invaders, one at a time. And Takao has a further talent. He has the Harbinger ability to psionically inspire others. The stronger his own convictions are, the more others will be inspired to follow him. Fighting alongside this new Rai are Magnus, Tekla, the Eternal Warrior, Kayuzo in her X-O Commando armor, and the mysterious Spylocke.

Powers/Abilities: Like Bloodshot, from whom the line is "descended", Rai's nanite blood gives him superhuman speed, agility, and healing powers: total body control. He can also dominate electrical devices and read computers directly through physical contact, which makes him a deadly threat to the robotic Malev invaders. Takeo, the last Rai, is also a Harbinger, able to inspire others to follow him through use of a subconscious psionic ability.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Trade/rai.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Shadowman

Real Name: Jack Boniface

First Appearance: Shadowman #1 (May 1992)

Occupation: Blues Sax player

Affiliations: Mike Leroi (kind of affiliated, as Leroi is his successor)

Enemies: Master Darque

Base of Operations: New Orleans

History: The city of New Orleans has a history of wild nightlife and Voodoo lore. Now, the superstitious folk whisper of a man in a carnival mask who prowls the night, savagely attacking members of the New Orleans underworld. The pushers and pimps are learning to fear the vigilante called "Shadowman" who's causing big trouble in the Big Easy...

Jack Boniface was a jazz saxophone player - just another Bourbon Street entertainer with big dreams. Unknown to him, he was chosen by a voodoo cult to become Shadowman to fight Master Darque. Darque is a necromancer and mightiest wielder of the Darque Power.

One night he was bitten by a vampiric Spider Alien named Lydia. Jack does not know what saved him after her poison knocked him out - only that when he awoke, she was gone. But she infected his blood with a poison that altered his use of the Darque Power when he became Shadowman.

Since that night, with each sunset, Jack is overcome by the urge to seek and destroy evil. Drug dealers, in particular, are targets of his nocturnal patrols. Jack's housekeeper, Nettie, provides his costume. Familiar with Voodoo, Nettie claims that Jack is inhabited by Voodoo Loa that compel him to be Shadowman (see the next Shadowman entry for more on her).

During the Unity conflict, Jack meets Elya, a warrior-woman from the forty-first century. After they fall in love, she reveals to him that he is destined to die violently in 1999. Upon learning this he realised this "prophecy" mean that he couldn't die before then and he took some incredible chances in an effort to prove it.

He soon became the nemesis of Master Darque, fighting him on many occasions. At one point, Darque's power made Jack into a "Blood-Runner". His life-force bled out for Darque to consume. Jack finally shook off Darque's influence when he recalled that he isn't fated to die until 1999. Then, as Shadowman, he attacked Darque at a critical moment, ruining the master necromancer's spell for absolute power. With Darque temporarily defeated, Jack set out on a journey of sight-seeing and introspection.

Eventually Shadowman was caught up in the events of Unity 2000. True to what Elya told him, he died heroically during that adventure.

But the story doesn't end there - Jack Bonniface might have died - but Shadowman lived on...http://www.bobhall.com/comicsgraphics/acclaim/Shadowman43cover.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Eternal Warrior

Real Name: Gilad Anni-Padda

First Appearance: Solar, Man of the Atom #10 (June 1992)

Occupation: Protector of the Geomancers

Affiliations: Neville Alcott

Known Relatives: Armstrong(brother), Ivar(brother)

History: With an ultra-dense cellular structure that gives him great strength and the ability to heal from the most grievous of wounds, Gilad Anni-Padda is even immune to the ravages of time. The greatest fighter from an age when the sword was the law, he was ancient before the rise of the Pharaohs, and shall survive the fall of nations yet to come. He is the Fist and Steel of those who guard the Earth - the Geomancers, and his battle is never-ending...

Bravest of a warrior tribe, Gilad Anni-Padda was born before recorded history. He and his brothers, Aram and Ivar, are the only known naturally immortal humans. When their tribe is decimated by the Sumerians, Gilad and his brothers go their separate ways. Establishing a relationship with the Geomancers, Gilad pledges to enforce their will for generations to come. Centuries later in China, Gilad first battles the Immortal Enemy, General Cheng. It is Cheng's hatred of Gilad that makes him reincarnate through the ages, always seeking Gilad's destruction. In World War II, Gilad meets Neville Alcott, who would later serve to aid the Eternal Warrior's causes.

Now known as Gilad Abrams, the Warrior fights the Immortal Enemy's latest incarnation: Colombian drug lord Juan Javier Caldone. Gilad has also incurred the enmity of Master Darque - necromancer supreme. But Gilad is no stranger to strife. For if a warrior's worth is measured by his enemies, then Gilad continues to be the greatest warrior of all time.

During the Unity crisis we see that Gilad will still be active in 4000 A.D., battling alongside Magnus, Robot Righter.

Powers/Abilities: Gilad is superhumanly strong and immortal. He heals wounds extremely quickly. He is a master of weapons and fighting, having honed his abilities over millennia.http://www.fm3d.com/collectables/comics/eternalw/010.jpg

[hillbillyhatfield]

Archer

Real Name: Obadiah Archer

First Appearance: Archer and Armstrong #0 (July 1992) :

History: Obadiah Archer was still a child when he discovered that his evangelist parents were deviant killers. Attempting to cover their tracks, they tried to kill their son in a fire. Left clinically dead, Archer miraculously revived, desiring revenge for what had been done to him. Seemingly haven gained some degree of paranormal power from his experience, he travelled to Ladakh, where he trained using his psionic powers of perception and co-ordination to become the ultimate martial artist.

Eventually Archer returned to the U.S., where he encountered a drifter called Armstrong. Armstrong turned out to be an immortal with superhuman strength, and in spite of being chalk and cheese, the two men became fast friends. However the also fell foul of a cult known as the Sect, who feel that Armstrong is the Devil and must be destroyed.

As they continued to travel the globe, they encountered a number of the other superhumans who inhabit their world, including Ivar, Armstrong's brother, Solar, and Armstrong sorceror wife Andromeda. Returning to America, and specifically to L.A., the pair confronted the leader of the Sect Mahmud. Having defeated him, they settled in Los Angeles for the time being.

Powers/Abilities: Archer is a consummate martial artist and a Harbinger, gifted with uncanny powers of perceptionhttp://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Archer/archer23.jpg

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Armstrong

Real Name: Aram Anni-Padda

Occupation: Wanderer, many temporary jobs over the millennia

Affiliations: Archer, Ivar, Eternal Warrior, Magnus

Enemies: The Sect

Known Relatives: Ivar (Timewalker, brother), Gilad (Eternal Warrior, brother)

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Archer and Armstrong #0 (Valiant, July 1992)

Powers/Abilities: Armstrong is immortal and superhumanly strong.

History: Armstrong is an immortal, like his brothers Ivar and Gilad Anni-Padda. Born Aram thousands of years ago, he has wandered the world for all that time, treating life as one long party. Along the way he made enemies with a cult who call themselves the Sect, and who believe he is the Devil and should be killed. While being pursued by them he ran into Archer, and in spite of being chalk and cheese, the two became fast friends.

After travelling around the world together, Archer and Armstrong returned to America and confronted the leader of the Sect, Mahmud, in Los Angeles. Having defeated him, they decided to settle there for a while.

By the 40th century, the era of Magnus, Armstrong had exiled himself to Mars. Around the time that Mothergod destroyed Japan and the last Rai was empowered, Armstrong finally stopped running from his destiny, returned to Earth, and became the new Geomancer.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Archer/archer07.jpg

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H.A.R.D. Corps

Members:Maniac, Gunslinger, Hammerhead, and Shakespeare:

Enemies: Harbinger Foundation

First Appearance: Harbinger #10 (October 1992)

History: The H.A.R.D. Corps are members of a secret paramilitary organization. The psi-borg soldiers of the H.A.R.D. Corps have use of amazing powers, but the cost is their freedom. Fearing the rise of the Harbinger Foundation, Mr. Heydrich's Omen Corporation creates the Harbinger Active Resistance Division, or H.A.R.D. Corps. By means of cybernetic brain implants, candidates are plucked from comas. These same implants can stimulate portions of the brain, reproducing the psionic powers of certain Harbingers. In battle, the H.A.R.D. Corps operatives, called psi-borgs, can call for Harbinger powers, one at a time. Operating the H.A.R.D. Corps' Harbinger Powers database is Softcore. It is she who grants psi-borg requests for powers.

The original H.A.R.D. Corps included Maniac, Gunslinger, Hammerhead, and Shakespeare. On a raid against a Harbinger Foundation installation, Maniac was beaten to death by the massive Harbinger, Big Boy. Despite the perilous nature of the job, more psi-borgs join the ranks, including Superstar and Flatline as well as the newest rookies, Hotshot, Wipeout, and Perp. In addition to fighting Harbinger forces, they have even battled the Spider Aliens. Any enemy of humanity is an enemy of the H.A.R.D. Corps.

But it is not the joy of battle that motivates these men and women. Should they forsake their duty, Omen will return them to their coma state.http://paula.clickandcarry.com/comics/image_comic/21hard.jpg

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Timewalker

Real Name: Ivar Anni-Padda

First Appearance: Timewalker #1

Known Relatives: Armstrong(brother), Gilad Anni-Padda (brother

History: Ivar, the Timewalker, has experienced the passage of thousands of years, just like his immortal brothers, Gilad and Aram. Unlike them, or anyone else, Ivar has spent his years skipping around from one point in history to the next. Able to find natural "time-arcs" that carry him from era to era, Ivar might be in the present on week, and in the 41st-Century North Am the next. This gets to be tricky for Ivar, who must take care to do nothing that could change history - even though this pledge of non-interference often leads to some difficult choices. But his time jumps aren't motivated by curiosity or adventure; Ivar only hopes that the next arc will place him back in the arms of his one, great love--lost in another time.

Powers/Abilities: Ivar is immortal and heals wounds extremely fast. He is also superhumanly strong, like his brothers. His ability to find "time arcs" is unique to him however.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Timewalker/VVSStimewalker1.jpg

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Harbingers

Membership: Pete Stanchek, , Zepplin, Flamingo

Purpose: defeat Harada

Enemies: Toyo Harada

First Appearance: Harbinger #1 (January 1992)

History: A new breed walks among us--harbingers of the next step in human evolution. Harbingers are the "mutants" of the Valiant universe.

Toyo Harada, a powerful psionic and Harbinger, establishes the Harbinger Foundation to recruit others with similar abilities to carry out his agenda of world domination. One of the Harbingers the Foundation recruits is Pete Stanchek, the only other existing "Omega Harbinger", whose full-range psionic power rivals Harada's. Realizing Harada's schemes, Pete flees the Foundation with his girlfriend, Kris. They are joined by Zepplin, Flamingo, and Torque, all of them renegade Harbingers. Together, they use their different psionic abilities to wage war against Harada's forces.

But Torque is killed by Harada's elite Harbingers, the "Eggbreakers". Months later, during the Unity conflict, Kris gives birth to Torque's child. That infant, by the will of the Geomancers, is sent to the future to become Magnus, Robot Fighter--champion of the forty-first century. Back from Unity, they recruit Shatiqua, whose superhuman reflexes and tough attitude help when they battle the H.A.R.D. Corps. Later, they team up with Screen, a renegade Harbinger capable of projecting force fields. Having opposed Harada even longer than Pete, Screen brings the experience of a veteran to the group. But Peter Stanchek knows that time is running out, for he must soon face Harada in a deadly showdown that will determine the fate of the world.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Harbinger/harbinger02.jpg

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Bloodshot

Real Name: Angelo Mortalli

First Appearance: Eternal Warrior #4 (November 1992)

Occupation: British Spy

History: Angelo Mortalli was a mobster, a member of the Carboni crime family, until they sold him out. The scientists of Project Rising Spirit and its founder, Hideyoshi Iwatsu, were developing techniques to turn a man into a perfect killing machine, and the Carboni's were happy to provide someone to experiment on, so long as they were given back any successes.

The Project filled Angelo's blood with nanites, microscopic robots which erased his memories and re-wrote his DNA to turn him into a perfect killing machine: faster, stronger and more agile than normal humans. But just because a man has no memory doesn't mean he'll obey you, and "Bloodshot" as he was designated, escaped. Discovering they couldn't replicate the success of Bloodshot's "Blood of Heroes" experiment, they sent other operatives with inferior nanite-created abilities, the Speedshot warriors, after him, all to no avail.

Bloodshot tracked down some of his origins, and sought out Don Benito Carboni to find out who he had once been. Sickened by the man he once was, he renounced his past. An allegiance with Gilad, the Eternal Warrior gave him new purpose, and he became an agent of Gilad's "solicitor", Neville Alcott, who would send him on missions around the world.

Powers/Abilities: Bloodshot's nanite blood gives him superhuman speed, agility, and healing powers: total body control. He can also dominate electrical devices and read computers directly through physical contacthttp://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Bloodshot/bloodshot46.jpg

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Master Darque

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Human magic user

Occupation: Necromancer

Affiliations: Doctor Eclipse

Enemies: Solar, Shadowman

Known Relatives: Sandria (sister)

Base of Operations: Active worldwide

First Appearance: Shadowman #8 (December 1992)

Powers/Abilities: Darque is a powerful necromancer.

History: Little is known about the man called Master Darque, and every revelation about this sorcerous necromancer only raises further questions. Born in the early 1800's, Darque and his sister, Sandria, always showed a penchant for magic and the Black Arts. Mystically prolonging their lives, the pair have survived to the present day, spared the ravages of time. In recent years, Darque's necromantic powers have blossomed to horrific new extents, as though some new source of death-energy had arrived in the world. Now, after years of seemingly pointless existence, Darque finds himself with enough power to challenge the host of new superhumans in the world.http://valiantcomics.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Special/DarquePassages.jpg

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Doctor Eclipse

Real Name: Fred Bender

Affiliations: Master Darque

History: Special investigator Fred Bender once coveted the limitless power wielded by Solar, Man of the Atom. However, such godhood was denied him and he was stranded by Solar in the middle of the desert. But Master Darque had other plans for Fred Bender, and converted him into Solar's counterpart - a being of vast necromantic energy to serve as Darque's most powerful instrument of destruction.

Where Solar's power had thrilled Bender with the wonder of Creation, Darque's gift of power numbed him with the emptiness of Death. Reborn as Doctor Eclipse, Bender was now cursed with the power he thirsted for, his black vestments reflecting the dark madness in his soul.

Powers/Abilities: Doctor Eclipse has similar reality manipulating powers to those of Solar

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Geomancer

Real Name: Geoff McHenry

First Appearance: Solar #10 (June 1992)

Occupation: Protector of the Earth

History: Geoff is a geomancer, a magician who uses the living energy of the world to protect it. Geomantic energy is the positive side of organic energy which exists in all organic systems, especially the Earth. Shortly after becoming the present Geomancer, Geoff McHenry discovered that he needed help in his personal mission to safeguard the Earth. The Unity conflict was the first great test for the young Geomancer. He meets two Harbingers, Livewire and Stronghold, who have left the services of the Harbinger Foundation and recruits them in the battle against Master Darque's strongest minion, a being composed of pure necromantic energy - Doctor Eclipse. The three have remained together after this initial mission, and are now partners.

Powers/Abilities: Geoff can use his geomantic powers to heal organic matter. Unlike Necromantic energy that reanimates tissue from the outside, Geomantic energy heals from within. He can also use it in a variety of other ways, but I don't have details of them.

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Dr Mirage

Real Name: Doctor Hwen Fong

Identity/Class: Ghost

Occupation: Parapsychologist

Affiliations: Carmen Ruiz

Enemies: Master Darque

Known Relatives: Carmen Ruiz (widow)

First Appearance: Shadowman #16 (August 1993)

Powers/Abilities: Doctor Mirage is a ghost - he can walk through walls and fly. Other powers unknown.

History: Doctor Hwen Fong and his wife, Carmen Ruiz, were parapsychologists, investigators in the unexplained and the supernatural. One of their cases gained them the enmity of necromancer Master Darque, who slew Hwen in retribution. Distraught, Carmen's love for her husband bridged the gap between the living and the dead, and brought his spirit back to Earth. Though they have been reunited by their love, his insubstantial nature means that they can never again express their love in physical form, much to their annoyance.
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Ah, those were the good old days....sigh.

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Harada

Real Name: Toyo Harada

Occupation: Businessman

Affiliations: Eggbreakers, Harbinger Foundation

Enemies: The Harbingers

Base of Operations: Worldwide

First Appearance: Solar, Man of the Atom #3 (November 1991)

Powers/Abilities: Harada possesses an incredibly powerful mind, and may be the most powerful mentalist on Earth. He is telepathic, telekinetic and can control the minds of others through force of will.

History: Toyo Harada may possess the most powerful mind of any human on Earth. He is one of only two known Harbingers (people born with psionic powers, believed by many to be the first sign of mankind beginning to make an evolutionary leap) who has what is considered the full range of psionic powers: what he has termed the Omega Power. Harada became convinced mankind would eventually destroy itself and it's world if left to it's own devices, and that the only way to prevent this was if someone secretly assumed control and directed them down a better path. Naturally, Harada felt he was the logical candidate to save mankind. Knowing his fellow Harbingers were the key to success or failure in this campaign, he set up the Harbinger Foundation to recruit and train other paranormals for his cause. Because he fully believed in the rightness of his cause, he became willing to ruthlessly eliminate any who might get in the way of his plans, becoming a monster in the process.

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VALIANT TIMELINE

3500 BC: Earth chooses its first Geomancer: Khanit, a nomadic tribesman

3270 BC: Birth of Ivar, the Timewalker

3268 BC: Birth of Gilad Anni-Padda in Anatolia, the Asiatic part of Modern Turkey

3266 BC: Birth of Aram, the Other

3257 BC: Gilad's first battle

3250 BC: Birth of Kalam, son of Gilad Anni-Padda

3219 BC: Having battled Mesopotamian soldiers, Gilad and Aram are the sole survivors of their tribe

2627 BC: Beginning of the 23-year reign of Cheops, during which he constructs the Great Pyramid

2614 BC: Aram and Gilad are briefly reunited in Egypt

210 BC: Death of General Chang, first incarnation of the Immortal Enemy

385 AD: Aric, the Visigoth, is born

408 AD: Aric is kidnapped by the Spider Aliens

408 AD: Aric returns from Unity to his original time. There he is betrayed and his lover, Deidre, is killed

409 AD: Aric places himself in suspended animation and orders the suit not to awaken him until 1992

1192 AD: Tashi Khatuna, Geomancer, creates the Book of the Geomancer

1802 AD: Master Darque is born

1805 AD: Sandria Darque is born

1854 AD: Turok and his tribesman, Andar, discover a doorway to the Lost Land in the Dakota territories

1947 AD: Toyo Harada is born in Hiroshima, Japan

1968 AD: Sergeant Gilad Abrams meets PFC Joe Nicoleti during the siege of Khe Sahn, the last time they meet for many years

1977 AD: Toyo Harada uses his power to amass a vast fortune to fund

the Harbinger Foundation

July, 1984: Obadiah Archer is accepted to a temple in Ladakh, where he becomes the finest fighter and archer in the world

February, 1985: Buck McHenry recruits a successor as Geomancer—his nephew, Geoff McHenry

1987 AD: Turok appears in Columbia from the Lost Land

1989 AD: Joe Nicoleti becomes the trainer for Harada's "Eggbreakers"—young Harbingers who are his elite strike team

1991 AD: A cartel named Omen Enterprises is formed by a secret group of corporations to fund the H.A.R.D.Corps

Jan., 1991: Phil Seleski slips into our dimension after destroying his universe, meets the Phil Seleski from our world, and accidentally creates his hero, Dr. Solar

March, 1991: Aric the Visigoth, trapped by the Spider Aliens, escapes with one of the X-O Manowar armor suits possessed by the aliens

June, 1991: Peter Stanchek and Kris Hathaway assemble a group of renegade Harbingers

Nov., 1991: Solar defeats an alien warrior clad in Manowar class X-O Armor. Leaving the armor on one of Saturn's moons, he goes on to destroy the alien fleet

Mar., 1992: Jack Boniface, now Shadowman, captures a serial killer that has been stalking New Orleans

Mar., 1992: Due to Ken's repeated betrayals, Aric gives Ken Clarkson a new arm made from the X-O Manowar armor. Now Aric can control him.

Mar., 1992: Torque is killed by an Eggbreaker named Rock. The Harbinger kids are shattered

April, 1992: Gilad is recruited by Geoff the Geomancer to fight alongside earth's heroes in Unity

April, 1992: Solar battles Fred Bender—his greatest enemy

April, 1992: Archer and Armstrong are taken prisoner by the Sect and escape after a running battle through the Vatican

May, 1992: After a 10-day recovery period, Aric is forced to defend himself and Ken against an attack of Spider Aliens. He also discovers that the armor has changed, somehow evolving while he slept.

Aug., 1992: Solar is convinced by Harada to go after the remaining Spider Aliens on the moon after recently relocating to California with ***le Nordheim

Aug., 1992: X-O and Solar battle the aliens, destroying them and the armor's seed, ensuring that another X-O Manowar cannot be created for 2000 years

Nov., 1992: Geoff the Geomancer sneaks past the security at Project: Rising Spirit,

interfering with their latest experiment. In the process, the hero known as Bloodshot is released into the world

Dec., 1992: Returning to base with a stolen Harbinger data disk, the H.A.R.D.Corps agents are trailed and their headquarters destroyed by Eggbreakers and Harbinger Foundation troops

1993 AD: X-O Manowar and Turok go dinosaur hunting in the tunnels beneath Central Park

Bloodshot crosses paths with the H.A.R.D.Corps when he goes after a member of the cartel that sponsors OMEN Enterprises

The H.A.R.D.Corps discover a nest of Spider Aliens in the Pacific Northwest

Fred Bender is transformed by Master Darque into a being of pure necromantic energy and renamed "Dr. Eclipse"

1993 AD: Juan Caldone, the Immortal Enemy, reappears. Having the ability to leap from one body to the next, he takes possession of Gilad

Geoff McHenry forms the Secret Weapons team to tackle Dr. Eclipse

1999 AD: Earth's heroes gather to mourn the death of Jack Boniface, a.k.a. Shadowman. Shadowman was killed in a confrontation that led to the destruction of Master Darque

May 2003: The beginning of the first Corporate War, started by Toyo Harada

March 2020: Obadiah Archer marries Harbinger Charlene DuPre. Together they found a movement, the "Archies," dedicated to world peace

Feb., 2025: In the course of saving Armstrong's life, Archer dies. Armstrong disappears

June, 2028: Bloodshot is defeated while defending one of the Lunar Colonies from the renegade Harbinger known as Ax

Aug., 2055: Lucinda Mendez, Geoff McHenry's niece, is chosen to be Geoff's successor in the line of Geomancers. Her training begins

Dec., 2056: Kris Hathaway, former member of the Harbinger underground, writes a message to Magnus, the son she never knew, and entrusts it to the Geomancer for deliver in 4002.

June, 2062: After years of extending her life, Solar allows ***le the death she wishes. One Solar leaves to explore new planes of reality, the other slips quietly into seclusion and is not seen again for more than a millennium.

Summer, 2430: As the Harbinger Wars enter their 3rd century, the H.A.R.D.Corps and the various corporate armies have taken defensive positions. The remnants of mankind are huddled into corporate city-states all over the world

Fall, 2900: Japan, one of mankind's last strongholds, has isolated itself from the rest of the world completely. It is now covered by a single, contiguous structure, an electronic network that controls virtually every facet of daily life

Dec., 2987: John Stanchek, direct descendent of the founder of the Resistance, becomes the leader of the renegade Harbingers. Like Harada and Sting, he possesses the Omega Power

Nov., 2989: H.A.R.D.Corps forces begin a mass exodus from earth in their remaining ships. Without H.A.R.D.Corps to maintain order, the remaining city-states fall into chaos

Feb, 2990: John Stanchek manages to destroy Toyo Harada by transferring his mind into Harada's body. He takes control of the Harbinger Foundation's forces

August, 3050: Due to an unprecedented power surge, the island-wide network that encompasses Japan becomes Freewill and begins thinking and acting independently. The Japanese christen their mechanical keeper, "Grandmother"

May, 3216: Sho Shugino, the second Rai, takes the Blood of heroes from a group of Anti-Grannies. Bloodshot's blood is given to Grandmother for safekeeping

3975 A.D. - Solar meets Kris' baby at the moment in time to which he sent him from the Lost Land and takes him to 1-A's secret base where he will grow up to become Magnus.

Apr., 3988: Ana Kawainui recruits Rokland Tate as her successor in the line of Geomancers. She tells him of the coming of Unity and begins to train him in the mysteries of Geomancy

Erica Pierce discovers the Lost Land. She decides to use it as a base from which to launch Unity, her plan to unite all timelines and to make the time outside the Lost Land "unreal"

March, 3992: During a holiday on Mars with 1-A, the 16-year-old Magnus gets his first taste of battling Freewills when he saves the governor's daughter from a kidnap attempt

August, 4000: During his first appearance in North Am, Magnus destroys H-8, the Chief of Police, and frees 1000 people whose minds have been enslaved to power the central computer

March, 4001: Tohru Nakadai reluctantly agrees to become the 42nd Rai. He places his son, Takashi, in the care of the computer known as "Grandmother"

Solar, in seclusion for hundreds of years, reappears just in time to mankind stave off another attack by the Spider Aliens

To save the earth from the Spider-Aliens, 1-A and

Grandmother fuse and become the Grand One

May, 4001: The Freewill robots who have survived the war construct their own city, Synchron., near Yosemite. Tekla becomes their leader

In response to Tekla becoming leader of the surviving Freewills, the council reverses Xyrkol's peycho-probe. Once again this old enemy and Magnus fight for the survival of

North Am.

June 4001: With the help of Wilow Talltrees, Magnus discovers the doorway from his time into the Lost Land. There he meets Turok and together they battle the evil Dr. Noel

Aug., 4001: After years of searching, Rokkie Tate, now a full-fledged Geomancer, manages to locate Gilad, the Eternal Warrior. Together they set out to stop Unity

Aug., 4001: Rokland Tate recruits Rai, Gilad 4001, and Magnus to help stop Erica Pierce and Unity

Erica Pierce moves her San Gabriel facility to the Lost Land

Oct., 4001: Kazuyo Nakadai escapes from her prison as Japan plummets to earth. With the assistance of her direst enemy, Makiko, she manages to reclaim the X-O Commando armor

April, 4002: Led by Rokland Tate, Takao Konishi travels deep into the hulk of the crash site of Japan to find the Blood of Heroes. There he replaces his own blood with that of the twentieth century hero, Bloodshot, and Takao becomes the "last" Rai

Earth is invaded by Malevs, a race of intelligent Freewill robots who survive on ectotheric energic

Magnus is imprisoned on Phobos and escapes with Izak's help. Badly hurt, Magnus and Izak make it to a ship and take off for earth

The Malev invasion begins in earnest on earth. The Goph-Lev is destroyed. Felina and the orphans all die

To aid in the defense of earth, Rokland Tate helps form the Future Force consisting of the new Rai, Tekla, Gilad, X-O Comando, Spylocke, and Magnus

The Malev Emperor takes control of North Am's mainbrain. He now controls all of North Am's robots and he removes the restriction against robots doing harm to humans

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UNITY T I M E L I N E

PRELUDE TO UNITY

3988 A.D. - Erica Pierce discovers the Lost Land, a perfect base from which to launch Unity.

April 2, 3988 - Ana Kawainui, a geomancer, seeks out Roland Tate, her chosen successor.

3988-4001 - Erica establishes the foundation and power sources for her San Gabriel Citadel.

3997 - Erica's men in the Lost Land build a speakeasy to help ease the stress of their work. Smuggling to and from the complex begins.

4000 - Erica's son, Prince Albert, discovers the speakeasy during a routine inspection and decides to take advantage of its services.

August 5, 4001 - Erica transports her San Gabriel Citadel to the Lost land.


THE CALL TO ARMS
April 4, 1992 - Solar and Geoff McHenry, a young geomancer, find Erica Pierce's remains. Geoff learns of the existence of the "other" Erica and they leave for the Lost Land.

August 5, 4001 - Rookie Tate finds Gilad, the Eternal Warrior. Gil has been psycho-probed, but with Rookie's help manages to remember who he is. However, his memories of certain events remain sketchy. Rookie and Gil seek out Rai and convince him to accompany them.

They decide to seek out Magnus. After lending a well timed hand, they explain the situation and together race to the doorway to the Lost Land that Magnus used several months earlier.

April 4, 1992 - Shadowman is contacted by a former pupil of the last geomancer. He has discerned that a huge conflict is brewing and Shadowman is asked to help. Shadowman agrees and enters the Lost Land through a doorway under a tree in the Louisiana bayou.

Geoff and Solar decide to seperate. Geoff reappears in the real world with a portion of Solar's power. Using this power he travels to find people who can help in the coming battle. He finds the Harbinger kids and quickly recruits them. Together they locate Aric, X-O Manowar. Aric, sensing a good fight, agrees to come along. Geoff contacts the Gilad of 1992 and uses Solar's power to teleport him to them. Gilad in turn uses the power to locate his brother Aram (Armstrong) and recruits him and his new partner, Archer.

Geoff creates a portal to the Lost Land.


UNITY
TIME IS NOT ABSOLUTE
Day 1
Magnus, Rai and Gilad 4001 arrive. Erica, fearing Rai's power, attempts to force his retreat, threatening Japan if he does not withdraw. He refuses and in 4001 Japan crashes from orbit into the Indian Ocean.

Seeing them, Solar joins the 4001 team. Magnus and Rai recognize Solar, but this Solar (from 1992) does not know them. Rai sights the 1992 team and they meet up.

Erica spots the teams and mounts an attack. The teams split up.

While battling pteradons, X-O is attacked from behind and falls into a cell with slaves who are to be fed to the bionisaurs. Aric rescues them and proclaims himself their leader. They escape and head for the mountains.

Shadowman arrives in the Lost land and incorrectly assumes that Solar is the threat. He meets and quickly befriends Elya, who takes him to the Central Tower.

Archer, Armstrong and Gilad 1992 break off from the main group and begin attacking robots. Gilad and Archer and Armstrong are separated.

Solar blasts his way through the Central Tower and confronts Erica one-on-one. Seeing the attack, Shadowman leaps to Erica's aid, nearly killing himself in the process. Erica uses the diversion to trap Solar in a wormhole.

Sting can no longer sense Solar and assumes him dead. Erica's counterattack drives back and scatters her enemies.

Archer and Armstrong are captured by Section Prelate Rejj.

Gilad 1992 and Geoff meet up with Gilad 4001. They set off to find their allies.

Day 2
Kris informs Sting that she is pregnant. Sting decides to sit out the war for Kris' safety.

Archer is questioned by Rejj, who is a devotee of Archer's philosophies. Meanwhile Armstrong succeeds at a daring escape that involves natural camouflage.

Geoff, Rai, Magnus and the two Gilads meet and regroup.

Day 3
X-O and his new followers arrive in the mountains and set up camp in a series of caves.

Day 6
An infatuated Elya searches the history archives for information on Shadowman.

Day 12
Rai and Magnus attack the robot commlink sector of Erica's fortress. The attack fails, and they are forced to withdraw.

Albert visits Bunsie in the infirmary and kills her.

Day 15
Armstrong discovers the Speakeasy begins drinking heavily. Armstrong meets Prince Albert in the Speakeasy.

Day 16
Rai goes on a solo mission to the fortress. Gilad 4001 and Magnus must race to save him.

Albert prevents Archer's execution and returns his crossbow. He provides Archer and Armstrong an oppertunity to kill Erica, which fails.

X-O attacks the complex and accidently gives Archer and Armstrong their chance to escape.

Day 17
Erica dispatches Turok to kill Archer and Armstrong. However, Turok decides their cause is just and quits Erica's service.

Day 31
Elya visits Shadowman in the medicenter.

Day 36
Rai attempts a third solo attack on Erica's complex. This time he is severely injured and is saved only by the intervention of the resistance.

Day 40
Rai awakens in the hastily constructed med-center at the resistance headquarters. He immediately attempts to leave for another attack, but Magnus convinces Rai to fight alongside the resistance.

Day 45
The Harbinger team discovers an abandoned building. Sting decides it will suffice as a hideout where they can wait out the end of the war in safety.

Day 60
Shadowman is removed from the reconstruction vessel. Elya visits him again.

Day 91
Magnus, Rai and Gilad 4001 stage an assault on Erica's complex. Shortly afterwards, Magnus comes to the Harbinger team and asks for Sting's help in an attack the next morning. Sting agrees, reluctanly.

Sting discovers that Kris' baby is not his, but Torque's.

Day 92
Enraged, Sting attacks the complex alone. Erica and Sting battle, and only a last minute appearance of X-O and the others saves his life. Erica withdraws.

Day 101
Shadowman is discharged from the medi-center, into Elya's custody.

Day 105
Sting and Rai mount an attack on Erica's complex, but are forced to retreat when Sting is injured.

Day 150
X-O and his men attack Erica's complex and capture a power converter. He plans to ransom it back, but Magnus and Rai convince him to destroy it.

Day 153
Erica comes to X-O's camp with tribute. While Aric is distracted, Erica takes control of the X-O armor. On cue, a bionisaur attacks, nearly biting him in two. The armor returns to Aric, encasing him and saving his life. However, X-O falls in battle and is left for dead.

Day 157
Rai, Magnus, and the two Gilads mount a diversionary attack on the citadel. Archer and Armstrong sneak into the complex to plant a bomb to blow up the main power station.

Back at the resistance headquarters, the Harbinger team arrives. Geoff tries to check on the baby and discovers that it will grow up to be Magnus.

Elya is called away to defend the complex and Shadowman breaks out of Elya's quarters to lend aid. He then manages to thwart Archer and Armstrong's bombing plans, forcing them to return to their headquarters.

Geoff then enters the complex to reason with Erica, but is captured near the Speakeasy. The heroes then set off to the rescue Geoff, leaving behing Armstrong to deliver Kris' baby. The two Gilads breaks into the control center to save Geoff. Erica unlashes an energy bolt, seemingly killing him.

Back at the resistance headquarters Kris has gone into labor, and the Gilads, assuming their mission has failed, are forced to retreat.

Magnus is caught under a collapsing support column and presumed killed, but he survives and manages to make his way through the citadel without a fight. Along the way he finds Geoff, who escaped Erica's blast through a secret door. Geoff has learned that Solar is not dead, but imprisoned.

Albert initiates a search for Shadowman, then sneaks off to the Speakeasy. Shadowman follows.

Kris gives birth to a son, as Zephyr returns and tells of the loss of Magnus. Kris begs Sting to find him.

Magnus attacks Erica in her control center, wounding her while her guard is down. Sting manages to locate Magnus and Geoff and the three escape.

After seeing Albert murder a bim in the Speakeasy, Shadowman learns the truth about Unity and drags Albert with him to confront Erica. Elya cannot bring herself to do her duty and shoot Shadowman.

Day 158
While the resistance launches a final all out assault on Erica's fortress their own headquarters are attacked and Kris and the baby are taken prisoner.

Shadowman encounters Archer and Armstrong again and ends up injured and trapped. Albert escapes.

The resistance breaks into the prison bunker, leaving Rai to defend the entrance from reinforcements. When Erica appears, Rai fights a desperate last battle, but dies at Erica's hand.

His sacrifice buys the others time to find Solar's cage. Sting uses his powers to free Solar.

Aware that Solar is free. Erica rushes back to the control center to activate the reactor. Albert picks up one of Rai's energy swords.

Solar, exhausted, is helped from the complex by Sting as Erica activates the main reactor.

X-0 appears and joins in a last ditch attack on the main reactor. Sting, realizing that Kris has been captured leads the Harbinger team to her rescue.

Albert uses Rai's energy sword to stab Erica in the back. She is not killed, but her concentration is broken long enough for Solar to dive past her defenses and confront her face to face.

Shadowman awakens just in time to see the huge column of energy from the reactor and realizes he is too late. He searches for Elya, and a means to escape.

Solar defeats Erica and traps her in the wormhole as Geoff convinces Kris to give him the baby. As the universe collapses around them, Erica's men try to flee, but the robots continue to fight.

Shadowman finds Elya and together they try to return to 1992 via the portal through which he entered. Solar returns most of the people and creatures of the Lost Land to their respective times. Albert is killed by Speakeasy bims.

Shadowman escapes, but Elya is torn from his grasp by Solar's power. The reactor becomes a black hole, which Solar is barely able to destroy.

3975 A.D. - Solar meets Kris' baby at the moment in time to which he sent him from the Lost Land and takes him to 1-A's secret base where he will grow up to become Magnus.

[hillbillyhatfield]

LITTLE-KNOWN VALIANT FACTS

CELEBRITIES

In the pages of a few Valiant comics, you can find
some familiar faces from the world of music.

Most everyone knows about the issue of Shadowman devoted to Aerosmith...
Shadowman #19


...but did you also see Jimi Hendrix in Archer & Armstrong #10 and #11?

There's even evidence in the Valiant Universe that Elvis Presley didn't die.
Instead, he was taken into a Spider Alien spaceship back in 1977.
Years later, he met a barbarian named Aric on that ship...
...and the rest, is Valiant history. (see X-O Manowar #0)

And from the world of movies...Turok #23 had a few characters you might
recognize from PULP FICTION, with the best likeness belonging to a guy who
looks a little too much like John Travolta for it to be a coincidence.

PREMONITIONS

In the Unity crossover, the theme "Time Is Not Absolute" was everywhere.
Did you know that theme was written on a sheet of paper in Solar #7?
That's almost six months before Unity began!

Just before the Unity crossover in the summer of 1992...
Months before Valiant Comics became the most sought-after comics in the world....
A couple years before Valiant was sold to Acclaim Entertainment for $65Million...
And several years before the Valiant Universe was ended...
Valiant villain Toyo Harada was supposed to be talking about himself
in the pages of X-O Manowar #3 when he said, "I NEED NO MORE ACCLAIM."
Eerie, huh?

CAMEO SECRETS

So, Harbinger #10 is the first appearance of HARDCorps
and Harbinger #11 is the second appearance, right?
Not exactly.
In addition to all the other important events in Rai #0,
it is also the second appearance of HARDCorps...
Its cover date is November 1992, the same as Harbinger #10,
and one month before Harbinger #11.

And the first thing we know about Master Darque is from
his first appearance in Shadowman #8, right?
Or did you know that he's the guy inside the limosine at the end
of Shadowman #7?
It looks like the first thing we know about Master Darque is that
he's trying to kill Shadowman...what a surprise.

Did you ever notice that Vintage Magnus #1 is even older than Harbinger #1?
Even though both Vintage Magnus #1 and Harbinger #1 have January 1992
as their cover dates, Vintage #1 has a page devoted to Harbinger #1 with
"Coming in October" above an alternate artwork for the cover of Harbinger #1.

Where's Kris?

WORLD TRADE CENTER CAMEO

Harbinger #2 contains an "actual photo" of the World Trade Center,
overlayed with artwork of the Harbinger kids flying toward the towers
in Dr. Heyward's borrowed car.

The kids find the Harbinger Foundation world headquarters on the 47th
floor of an unnamed NYC building. Makes you wonder if they visited the WTC!

The story timeline indicates the kids visited NYC on June 9, 1991,
and the cover date for Harbinger #2 is February 1992.

[Vezinas Ghost]

Man I miss Valiant!

[hillbillyhatfield]

would be nice if mcfarlane would buy the company. I think it would be worth it just for master darque.

[Disconnekted]

Did you work for Valiant? That is a ton of info. :)

[hillbillyhatfield]

nope just like valiant. I like it better than anything i've read. I have a little over 13,000 comics, and there my favorite.

[knicks999]

Do you have all of the Valiant comics?

[hillbillyhatfield]

yes except for the newer ones, like woody, visitor, all the ones aclame made

[knicks999]

wow thats impressive. I remember when Magnus and Rai were so ridiculously expensive in Wizard. I was like 11 at the time and i started getting a few of them because i thought that they'd be worth so much money. I ended up getting Turok 1 :) I have no idea where it is anymore.

[thejikas]

ahhh the good ol golden age of comic gimmick - early 1990s

[hellbound]

Valiant was.... unique..... in a bad way...

[hillbillyhatfield]

valiant didn't have gimic comics, until acclame baught them out.

[Vezinas Ghost]

valiant didn't have gimic comics, until acclame baught them out.

I loved valiant, but they were PIONEERS in gimmicks. Coupon redemptions, Numbers 0's, foil cover panels, then full wrap around foil covers. Look at Bloodshot #1 for example.

[hillbillyhatfield]

no more than marvel, or dc