“It sat in bankruptcy for a number of years, until they were bought out of it and having the rights to publish the characters again, but didn’t have the money.
Ultimately, that company filed bankruptcy, taking “Bloodshot” with it. The quality of the book, I can say humbly, is what kept people buying it, month after month.”īut Valiant was bought out by a video company, with the idea of becoming a character creation outlet, immediately changing things. That cover, just because it was so unique, so novel, helped us sell that advance number we did. “We also used a specialty printing process for the cover - chromium. It wasn’t just creative people, but people who understood the economics and advertising.” The comics had legitimate ads that helped offset the costs of publishing they weren’t just relying on sales from the books themselves. “Valiant was the first one I’d been a part of that clearly had business people involved. VanHook said those were great days for the comic book industry it was booming.
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