Bloodshot #1 (1992) - Valiant Comics

Is this the book that set the stage dor the success of Turok #1?
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[@DCUOMultiverse]

I had mentioned Blooshot #0 in another comment.... Made a BooBoo.... This was actually my first Valiant comic. Was a big fan of Don Perlin ever since I saw his work in the pages of Captain America. Loved this comic.... until Valiant had.... BirthQuake?? I think is what they called it??

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I got onto Valiant around this time too. I was done by early 94 though. It was just too much to keep up with and the quality dipped.

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

I bought Valiant comics that were drawn by Bart Sears and Paul Gulacy,don't remember the names of the titles they drew tho. Why was interesting to me was why Jim Shooter kept getting fired from every comic company he worked at.First Marvel then Valiant,then the next company he went to. Poor guy. !992 was a good year if you were a comic fan,lots of pretty good stuff to chose from.

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Sears did some XO and Turok. Not sure what Gulacy worked on (Shadowman maybe). Shooter was at Marvel close to decade before being ousted. I think he had a falling out with the financiers of Valiant. He wanted to keep slowly building the Universe and they wanted to flood the market and get in the gimmick game. Defiant just for sued out of existence and Broadway was post industry crash.

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

@@read.your.comics Thanks for the info,I really liked XO and Turok when drawn by Sears of course. Lots of folks working at Marvel when Shooter was tha boss had lots of complaints about his leadership skills and management skills.John Byrne drew a panel in a comicbook showing the destruction of Shooter's home town. LOL. He towed the line on dead lines too,no more late books on his watch,which was good tho. Several creators bounced over to DC just because they dispised Shooter. TOO bad Shooter got bounced around tho,just had some rough patches here and there.

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@@user-be7tc2bd6e yeah he was a hard ass and a micromanager while at Marvel. He and Byrne both had strong personalities and that was bound to collide eventually. But when I look at Marvel during his time I think it was the most coherent era and fostered some of the best stories. Valiant was its best under him as well. After his ouster it didn’t take long for the wheels to come off.

[@DCPatrol]

Fairly certain that I've only read maybe one Valliant book. Maybe none. They just couldn't compete for my attention. I didn't enjoy BWS when I was younger and those pastel water colours really weren't calling to me. I'm sure they were better than a lot of what I was reading, but it wasn't EXTREME enough. ;)

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I totally get it. I was all in on Image when this came out. But by mid 93 I was also realizing Valiant was telling better stories. And if you go back to those first two years they were probably the best superhero books being sold at that time. Unfortunately they unravel at the seams by 94. Still, some character concepts really endured.

[@DCPatrol]

@@read.your.comics If the books fell in my lap I would 100% read them! I still have my deathmate books. They're actually siting directly next to me.

[@brute_nm]

That's some serious gore lol

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For a mainstream comic of the time. But when Ennis and Dillon got on Punisher it made this look like kid stuff LOL.