![]() Mintz says he is not looking to make wholesale changes - “The plan is not to go in there and take apart what’s working,” he says - but some reverberations are already occurring. The rights to the characters were eventually picked up by entrepreneurs Dinesh Shamdasani and Jason Kothari and a resurrected company began publishing again in 2012. Valiant was bought by video game company Acclaim Entertainment in the mid-’90s, but by the early 2000s Acclaim’s fortunes soured. With some former Marvel writers and artists, the company mounted a formidable challenge to the Big Two, not least in part because it did what those companies did, namely, integrate its characters and storylines. ![]() ![]() Valiant was founded in 1989 with former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter as one of the founders and published a mix of original creations and characters licensed from another publisher. While not as massive compared with the Big Two, comic industry parlance for giants Marvel and DC, Valiant does have a robust library of 2,000 characters and publishes an award-winning line of comics from top writers and artists with titles such as X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong, and Ninjak. The 15 Best Dressed Stars and Royals at the 2023 BAFTA Awards
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