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If they could they'd control who bought the books -you say, and today's fake talent from former-Marvel say things like "if you dont like my politics then dont buy my books", I think they have reached their goal, as the consumer has no value in this fake country. Great work here, thank you.

So Big City Comics was not the first minority owned publisher founded by the Sims brothers?

At 4min you said Ron Perelman bought Marvel 1986 for 46 mil, then again for 82.5 mil in 1989? Was not clear how you explained that part about New World Entertainment ownership...

Great work, breaking this down. I love Valient and Defiant comics

Recently got back into comics. I don't remember what year Maximum Carnage (12 part series) was, but thats what drove me away, the seems like a 1994 move haha. Love the videos, very informative!

Thank you sir for explaining the bust.I been collecting comics on and off since the early eighties.

Mat you live in interesting times is not an Asian nationalist saying. It is a Buddhist saying.

I stopped collecting when I was forced to pay 8 dollars for a copy of Hulk 393 three days after it was released. Usually comic stores would wait a week before charging extra. I didn't walk back into a comic store again until 2010.

Funny how history repeats itself. An unqualified artists crashes DC.

all those comics are in the 50 cents bins.

Great video, Make Mine Milestone!

Subbed. Erudite, off the cuff, no nonsense publishing history. Your channel should be larger, by several orders of magnitude. GL with it man

Tom DeFalco was a great editor in chief. It was over for Marvel after he left.

Hi I was just there a few hours ago my brother got some manga berserk hunter x hunter

will be there!!! :3😊

90's valiant (up to the end of unity) are my favorite comic books. even though the Selesky/Pierce unity storyline takes place across multiple titles and authors it remains coherent, consistent, while still retaining the feel of each individual title. i've been going through my old comics and purging lots of them; i see little reason to keep ahold of much of the 90's stuff ("HIT EM HARD AND FAST etc etc), but the valiant books are staying. shooter might have been (may be?) an asshole, but the team he assembled was clearly on board, and the quality speaks for itself

Solar was so underrated. He was the top dog in the 90s valiant...

Actually, reboot season 3 made a direct response to comic edgier antiheroes too.

I was reading all the Valiant books with enthusiasm when they first came out. The big reason, just my personal opinion, that sales stalled out was the giant drop in quality of writing after Shooter left. It really took a nosedive.

All of these foil cover is making my inner librarian cringe.

Dave is a really handsome man!

Does valiant comics have individual comics or it like DC and marvel just one continuaty

My biggest issue with Milestone at the time was how they wrote Latino characters. All of them were written to speak like Speedy Gonzales. As a Latino myself, this drove me nuts.

I got a lot of valiant comics. Come in a collection I bought. I've got a few solar man issues

No more Cancel Pig comics

Being from outside the us and this being before the internet was as big as it would be, I am so glad someone finally could explain this as well as you have. Thank you.

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Great video

Fascinating stuff

Would stop by.. If I didn't live a few hundred miles away.

Where was your mask on during this? I know you demanded everyone else wear one.

Nice job! This looks great!

Where did you get your info? Awesome level of research and detail…

These videos are amazing!

I never fell for the speculator boom, I remember buying X-Force 1, first thing I did was rip off the polybag. I wanted to read it

Hey man, just stumbled across this video. Fantastic!! Great job telling the early valiant story!

I was a big comic reader and collector at that time, I loved Image but man they sucked at putting stuff out on time. I loved Valiant comics and collected all the originals.

Shooter's Warriors of Plasm was the last comic I read and collected.

I started collecting comics shortly after Valiant came out, I loved BWS artwork and the universe that Shooter created was awesome.

witnessed it all,,,,,watched tons of stores close,,,,sad times, still collecting today, and have been since the 70's!!

Some of your statements are off. Thomas left Marvel because he wanted to write for DC and Marvel at the same time and Martin Goodman wasn't okay with that. Many of the others wanted to be their own editor on books they were writing something that Marvel wanted to get rid of before Shooter even came along. BWS and Layton were not welcome in the big two any longer so they got work with Shooter.

Great history lesson, thank you

So much Batman, so little time! Batman was my gateway drug into comics. Started reading around around the time Blackest Night was coming out. I went back to Year One, and as best I could, got the trades to read "modern" Batman in story chronological order. I managed to catch up around The Return of Bruce Wayne arc, started trying to catch up on Nightwing, Superman, Green Lantern, and Justice League. then they Flashpointed and started New 52, and I didn't follow so religiously anymore.

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Barry Windsor Smith did the iconic Weapon X storyline in Marvel Comics Presents, not just X-men fill ins (some of which were also iconic like Lifedeath) and Conan. Agree he is one of the greats.

Capital City totally bit the big one in the scramble for exclusives, they had a superior system to Diamond, but they didn't have the money Diamond had so the worse company won out. Comics were already in a bad place, the monopoly of distribution simply furthered the squeeze until now shops are as scarce as a Blockbuster...

Really enjoy the history. Thank you!

Fantastic summary and a great speaker. With no editing being done no less! You have a real talent

Hey what’s that Daredevil 4 worth, just curious 🤔

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