 So what we're going to do in this video is have a read through Magnus number 5 comic book by Valiant Comics that came out in 1991 and for those of you who've been watching some of my comic book videos you'll know that I'm a huge fan of Valiant Comics. I think they were amazing in the 1990s, early 1990s anyway when Jim Shooter was on the company running the company and they're amazing right now. This third, I guess it's the third re-launch of Valiant Comics from 2011 or so. Amazing stories, amazing characters and very fun reads. As for this comic, it's my all accounts if you ask any Valiant comic book collector. Magnus number 5 will be on everybody's top five most important Valiant books and there are a lot of important Valiant books but this thing is according to some and me being one of them. Magnus number 5 is the most important Valiant comic out there. The reason being is not because of the Magnus storyline it's well it starts off with the Magnus but because Magnus robot fighter number 5 is the first appearance of Rai. It's a flip book with Magnus number 5 in the front and Rai number 1 in the back and this format the flip book went from Magnus number 5 all the way to Magnus number 8 so it told the story the first four appearances of Rai are in these issues and the significance of this book is not only that it's the first appearance of Rai and the origin of Rai and a lot of other characters actually but that Rai was the first Valiant original character that they introduced and it was basically the beginning of the Valiant universe as we know it right so Rai number 1 was the first character original character that Valiant comics introduced to the world because what they had done previously to that they produced some Mario Brothers comic books to generate some money and then Jim Shooter what he did after that was he licensed the Magnus robot fighter the rights for Magnus robot fighter Solar Manatee Adam and Turak from Gold Ki I believe and Magnus robot fighter and Solar Manatee Adam were the first two superhero I guess comic books that Valiant put out okay and they built their universe from there and then Rai number one was the first one first original character and anyone following Valiant comics right now what 2015 you'll know that Magnus robot Solar and Turak are now with IDW I believe the Valiant doesn't have the rights for them anymore in the third relaunch that happened okay so we're gonna have a read through this and it's a it's a very nice read and one thing you'll notice with Valiant comics is one of the reasons they were brilliant at the time one the norm comic books at the time back then was those writings on the covers of a lot of the lot of the comics that came out and the comics were extremely busy because they were trying to get people's attention on the racks I guess there was a lot of marketing ploys and Valiant comics basically your covers were very clean very very neat right as you can tell with this one and at this one over here this is Magnus robot fighter number zero and what Valiant comics have done was from Magnus robot fighter number one which is which is here all the way up to Magnus robot fighter number eight they had included coupons in the books and we'll take a look at the coupons when we crack number five open but they had included coupons in the books and what people ended up doing was cutting out the coupons from number one to number eight sending it in and getting a copy of Magnus number zero okay and you can tell what the covers are just very powerful very vibrant and just clean just beautiful artwork okay and this was Magnus number fighter number zero that you got in the mail this is number one now I didn't cut out any of the coupons from my books because I don't know that's sort of a no-no for me but this one this one I got like I think I bought recently with a lot this one and there are some of these around they were very expensive at the time this is Magnus robot fighter number one beautiful cover and these things are they range anywhere the the grade on these is mint you know probably seven eight all the way up to mint depending on the individual issues beautiful cover I remember this one I really remember seeing on the racks when I bought it or one of the copies I have multiple copies of these unless you're this is the first one I bought I bought the original valiance one copies and I read some of them went wow these are they were incredible so I went back and bought multiple copies of some well multiple copies of every valiant the early valiant that came out this is number three this one has a little thing I don't know if you can see it here so this one wouldn't be the mint condition this one would be something around an 88.5 maybe and I got I got multiple copies of most of these anyway but I did grab myself as many of the fives as I could at the time and you know some of these are mint some of them aren't this is lower quality than this this one hasn't been read this one has been read so I'm gonna read this one so we do less damage to this guy and I think this one I grabbed back in the day afterwards I kept on looking to collect so I grabbed this one for I think 1250 this is like 20 years ago most of these I grabbed the cover price off the racks and this is the flip of number five so we're gonna read this one look at this and this is Magnus for what Friday number five right here's number six and there's a lot of characters that were introduced in these four issues for valiant comics so large that across over with this I believe this is the first appearance of the spider aliens and this is a storyline Magnus number five to eight with the flip side of the rise it's the invasion storyline this number seven and this is Magnus number nine no more coupons out so this one doesn't have the coupons so what we're gonna do is have a read through Magnus number five or I should say Ryan number one so let's crack this open school bags like this one as far as grades goes it's a pretty good shape very good shape so this is number five Magnus number five on the flip side is right number one right got some reading where on it very minor very minor so this is right number one this is invasion part two on the flip side is invasion part one with Magnus so what we end up doing is flipping through let's just flip through Magnus number five have a look through this I think the story for this is Magnus this is in the future four thousand and one and what's happened in the future you know there's artificial intelligence a lot of robots and there are robots right now that have become autonomous their AI basically and and there's people who are opposing the robots there's there's people who are for the robots or good robots bad robots and basically there's a war going on between humans and the AI's and multiple other factions and Magnus is sort of the protector he you know disciplined or I guess exterminated bad robots but then he realized that were robots that had got rogue but then I think he realized that they were becoming autonomous and they were living beings so he's abandoned his post and gone underground in hiding cognito and I believe in this issue basically his cover is blown beautiful artwork nice colors like the artwork wasn't as muscular for lack of a better word as the rest of the comics that were coming out at that time it was very very story driven and amazing stories if you were a sci-fi fan this stuff was fantastic Magnus of Solar were absolutely amazing and right beautiful color artwork Magnus's cover I think is blown here and what happens with the storyline is I believe there's a Magnus gets recruited to go to Japan and fight grandmother or take down grandmother and then they all get caught up with the invasion of the spider aliens and with people who are pro-AI anti-AI remember this stuff because I read a long time ago it'd be a nice little fresher to read when and here the coupons people cut out this one I do have some that are cut out that I bought afterwards but I do have a fair bit most of my collection for this is the coupons are intact more than 90% I believe anyway so these are some of the character characters that appear and here's a tip that I found out after after you know digging up some of the info on this Jim Shooter was editor-in-chief was a writer he he outlined the story he was he put he had a handle he had on many hats I mean he was editor of Marvel comics for a number of years and basically he's credited with you know pulling Marvel comics out of you know making them profitable in the 70s and 80s but I didn't know this that the pencils for this it says it was Paul critic but Paul critic was the pseudo name for Jim Shooter which I had no idea about and Jim didn't want his name to be on as pencil because they wanted I guess they were wanted they just wanted to give the impression that they the company was bigger than it was or you know they didn't want Jim Shooter wearing too many hats as editor-in-chief publisher you know the the outliner and doing the pencils as well as a lot of work if you consider how many books Valiant was putting out so he actually is and this side is right and he's actually the one who I believe penciled penciled right as well let's take a look and Valiant put put their creators info on the last page at the bottom of their comics that they produce which was again very much different than most other companies most of the other companies were most of the other companies had huge splash pages pages with their names on them and stuff and Valiant did very differently and this is right number one published in 1991 with the story with that Jim Shooter pencils Jim Shooter pseudo name Paul Chattick I guess Bob Leighton did the inks for this I did the inks for many of the valiance amazing amazing talent beautiful work and Janet Jackson I think she did almost all the colors for almost all the early valiance and they are absolutely beautiful just vibrant color and this is the beginning of right this is the first appearance of right and the origins in this and introduces a lot of characters okay so let's have a read through this so this is spirit spirit against the flesh invasion part two right and invasion part one is Magnus robot fighter number five the flip book of this right so this is March 24th 4001 601 a.m. another day how many more grandmother how much longer can I last and since reading that let me give you a little back around to this this is futuristic Japan 4001 and Japan is ruled over or maintained by an AI called grandmother intelligent being I guess and Rai is grandmother's guardian and Rai is the descendant of bloodshot the this nano technology you know amplified this futuristic of course it's in the future four thousand so technology has been improved but Rai is grandmother's guardian and grandmother you know takes care of everyone in Japan and some people are for grandmother and some people are anti-grandmothers they're called anti-grandies I think and they are they want to destroy grandmother they want people to take care of themselves and right now dominant force is the ones who are satisfied with what grandmother is doing and Rai is his guardian so Japan March 24th 4001 601 a.m. another day how many more grandmother how much longer can I last oh hush Rai you're supposed to be contemplating the sunrise you know we have to stick with it until the boy comes home he'll come around soon now relax focus and think of eternal things your nation your people me eternal things like aches and pains this isn't fair the boys turn it's the boys turn to turn turn to take the job I swear young people today have no sense of duty concentrate on the sunrise I've contemplated 10,000 sunrises 35,890 35,890 that's how long Rai has been alive and this is the father of the Rai that is to come the Rai that we know that the main story was focused upon and the power of the Rai just to give you a background the power of the Rai is passed on from generation to generation um so Rai's are born bred and educated to be protectors of grandmother I want to sleep late for a change grandmother there there Rai be patient patient I wish you'd let me drag as lazy but back here that won't solve anything oh oh trouble in the Kyoto plexus Rai quickly merge into my nerve web I'm getting too old for this Rai please it'll take too long if you stay in the duck system all right all right fill me on fill me in on the way so whenever there's trouble Rai is called it's a virob infection Rai it's a it's a type I've never seen before they're replicating very quickly it's starting to hurt Rai okay okay I'm exiting the web nasty looking buggers where do these things do these things come from some anti-granny radical must have smuggled in one of those replication pods well of course but who created the pod in the first place all I know is that they're eating me alive Rai please stop them yes yes can you encapsulate the infected region all right closing all portals and I'll try to construct the cyst quickly but I don't think it'll hold them it won't need to hold them for long is very much like Magnus fighting style ah they see that there's no place to run so they're turning to fight use the energy Rai Rai please yes yes give it form shape it wait a minute the staff so he's forming weapons with this energy I think the sword is better choice I think the staff is as close as I'll ever get to to a fishing pole he's being sarcastic funny so let me pretend I'm enjoying my old age so we zoom away okazaki island 6 20 p.m tomorrow little nubbin I think we will go fishing Takashi is a bit young for that love Takashi is a bit young for that love I guess Takashi is the kid yes I suppose but I'm eager for him to have the kind of childhood I never had so this is the Rai's son supposed to take over because of grandmother I hate her no don't say no don't say that Kazuyo she means well she loves our people she shelters them and cares for them they should learn to take care of themselves like us 30 a.m 11 30 p.m wake up young spirit so I guess it's the mother contacting I'm awake why are you disturbing me grandmother something terrible has happened come to me please definitely valiant comics were one of the most important comic events of the 1990s that's for sure that's for sure was the so something terrible has happened come to me please so grandmother's calling well soon to be the main Rai I guess but this is better be important I told you I don't want your messenger globals global globals coming around here it's extremely important you'll see hops in the globe globe globals and zooms where exactly are you taking me enters the one of the portals to my center young spirit 12 40 a.m father what happened I got cracked by some vibe bots not to worry sonny I crunched them all before I collapsed in agony he's sarcastic but my injuries are bad as much as I wish I could go on defending poor dear grandmother I'm finished it's all up to you now oh no sorry what do you mean sorry I can't do it anymore you've got to stop this foolishness and start doing the job you were born raised and trained to be you've seen we've seen we've seen all through this I don't want we we've been all through this I don't want to be the next ride and I'm not giving my son to grandmother to train as my replacement you're a lucky boy grandmother found you a suitable mate while you're still young don't you see you'll get the entire we don't get to retire early I was 95 when I sired you wow rise live a long time look zaku you and I have talked it over and decided I shouldn't do it it's settled how dare you abandon your duty how dare you dishonor a thousand year tradition so rise over protecting grandmother for thousands of years or a thousand years your injuries aren't quite as bad as you thought huh you're right about one thing you've got to get this job up you've got to give up this job dad you're getting slow slow slow yes and I can't use the energy properly anymore I can't even draw the sword anymore but grandmother needs a ride and if you won't let her build some semi-autonomous defender rob robs the defense robs or form a human militia true that these are modern times dad these are modern times dad a lot of people are beginning to think that humans ought to take ought to take more responsibility so let them mother comes in she enters the conversation some people simply want me dead young spirit the anti-grannies are insane but they are few of them you're not they're not they're no real threat no not I'm not afraid of them or these mysterious by robbs they keeps smuggling in but in Northam they have found the cat's paw who is very dangerous I guess in the Magnus number five Magnus is going to be being sent to Japan he's coming to kill me he's on his way now I don't think I can beat him that's his father I don't think I can beat him so you want me to stop Magnus I will need to full I will need the full power of rye to do that but once Magnus is dead I will give them back understood no he's trying to cut a deal foolish boy even this this attempt to murder me fails there will be others as long as there are anti-grannies accept your responsibility entirely or let them let them get it over with remember your responsibility includes providing a successor your son now you will keep your vows to me or you are no longer of my people choose I will keep my vows 302 a.m. I'm prepared to receive the energy father this is the happiest day of my life son grandmother will help us move the energy it burns a little wow so he's going to do the transfer okazaki island 442 a.m. so it goes back home's rye when I awakened and found you gone I suspected that grandmother had finally won that's his wife I'm sorry kazuyo sorry how dare you do this to me I have no choice the anti-grannies have recruited Magnus no one else can stop him I wanted things to be different but you knew I was I was here to rye you knew what that meant you accepted it I accepted it because I loved you but I don't want my baby raised in isolation doing nothing but training hearing nothing but granny's lies you promised me when when Tekashi was born that you wouldn't let that happen to him kazuyo listen listen to you mouth more of more of granny's cold rationalization no I've heard enough put tekeshi down or they will kill him too please toro toro please toro you notice there's no valley of comics there's no sound effects words right it's just the art produces energy stars pretty colors destroy some robots destroys them all tell me kazuyo when did the anti-grannies when you're when you over before we met granny made a mistake when she has selected me think what that means toro she's fallible but grandmother does a lot for our people and asks little in return one child every few generations a single guardian to protect the host body that 50 billion people live inside live inside so 50 billion is the population of japan right now at 4001 there's a lot of people live no they merely exist kept like pets lulled into complacency weak dependent better than better that tekeshi die here and serve that monster i love you i love you toro she's grabbed the gun and produces energy stars destroys the gun i saw what happened i love her grandmother still you meant to leave the child with her didn't you you came here only to say goodbye yes now i was gonna leave the kid but now but now you see that grandmother needs a ride don't you now and forever takes his son puts him inside the orb march 25th 5 59 a.m relax jr young rye focus think of eternal things and this is the same same view that we started off the story with right with his father being rye so this is the first appearance of rye the origin of rye the older rye the first appearance of the older rye first appearance of japan in 4001 nice little story it just contained and part part two of invasion that starts off from magnus number five and continues on all the way to magnus number eight which is the flipbook for magnus number five now what we'll do we'll read more comics right we've got a handful picked out for this reading session and uh we'll have a little read through and uh sample some other books yeah i'll see you guys in the next video and bye for now