 This is Chichu. Now if you've been following my comic book videos You'll know that I've started reading the new Valience, the new relaunch of valiance. There was a comic book few lots that I bought off of eBay and I've been meaning to read them. I sort of started off with the new valiant relaunch with with Rai, and I really loved it. I loved what they did. I loved the artwork and I found it to be sort of authentic, true to the original valiant, true to the original Rai. So what I've been doing is, since I started reading Rai, I've sort of started picking up random valiance and then I saw a big bunch of lots on eBay and I made a video of buying those lots and I have gone through and read at least half of those anyway. I read all the Harbingers and most of the Bloodshot and Harbinger Wars and some of the Quantum Woody. Well, I read the Quantum Woody a lot that I bought, the four issues that I bought, it was awesome. And since starting to read valiance, I found that I've basically dropping every most of the books I was collecting on a weekly basis, my pull list, and I'm sort of almost exclusively going valiance about 80, 80, 85, 90% of my buys are basically valiance now, except for, I think I'm just picking up four other titles. I'm picking up all the valiant books that are being put out and four other titles, one being Lobo, because I like Lobo. I don't know, it's just something that I like reading and it's sort of my guilty pleasure, I guess, and about three other titles, three or four other titles that I have. Okay, so since going exclusively valiant, almost exclusively valiant, because they're, wow, they're absolutely amazing stories, amazing characters, and they're building magnificent universe and if you remember when I bought the comic-lock and the comic-lock that I bought and I made the videos and I shared them with you, at that time I mentioned that if valiant comes out and announces that they're gonna do a movie deal, expect the price of these comic books to start increasing and people start paying attention to valiant, and since that time, that's exactly what's happened. Valiant has come out and announced that there are five movies in the works, which is, wow, it blew everyone away. And if you remember the lots that I bought off eBay, I bought a lot of the new valiants, they're relaunched, and I bought some older valiants, which if you consider the price I was getting them for, which was insane, it was a little bit over a dollar, like I bought, you know, you can take a look at that video, but I bought, you know, XO number one, two, solar number two, three, and a whole bunch of other stuff for $20 and a lot, like those, I don't know how many comic books are in there, in that lot, right? Just to give you a price idea, solar number three right now, it's selling for, you know, 30 plus dollars, and that's for the older valiants, right? For the newer valiants, they're selling out, they're extremely hard to find now, they're becoming scarce, like divinity number one sold out off the top, dropped that number one sold out right off the bat, on eBay, online, divinity number one is going anywhere between 20 or higher, right? 15, 20 or higher, right? And, you know, I've sort of been getting all the valiants, so I have all those issues, and I've been trying to go back and fill up whatever I'm missing, because I was missing like three years worth of stuff, so I've been going back and trying to fill my runs, right? So I can read them, and so far I've, you know, gone through all the harbingers, zero to 25, and it's beautiful, magnificent, right? I've read, you know, most of the bloodshot, bloodshot reborn as well, wow, wow, wow, right? The valiants are fantastic, right? Very excited about the Book of Death coming out in the summer of 2015 in July, I believe it starts off, right? So what I've been doing is checking online to try to get lots, right? And I've been going to comic shops in my area, and I live in a, you know, reasonable sized city, Vancouver, British Columbia, it's fairly big, and I've had to go to, you know, so far I've gone to like basically six comic shops and checked their back issues. Some of them didn't even carry any valiants. The ones that did carry them, they were carrying them mainly, well most of them anyway, were carrying it just for subscribers, and there were, you know, two or three that were buying more than what the subscribers were requiring, but no one, no one has complete runs of this stuff, right? So I've had to go to, you know, all these different stores to be able to put complete runs together, and I'm not, you know, I don't have everything yet. However, I did just come back from one comic shop that I hadn't gone to and I asked them, I checked their back, back issue, I was picking up Ninjak number four, and that's sold out as well, right? Ninjak number four is completely sold out, if you can't get your hands on it, especially with Ninjak number one as well, because that's the first appearance of the new character, right? And number four was the origin, right? That's totally sold out as beautiful, beautiful artwork. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, right? But I went to this comic shop and I looked at their back issue bins and I couldn't find anything, they didn't have anything, so I went up to the desk and I asked them if they had any back issues, and the guy was walking me to the person who takes care of their back issues and he, you know, yelled across and the guy didn't respond, and I looked over and they were, right, of books that they sell, and these are usually books that aren't selling, and my guess is these things were sitting there a while, right? So I sort of looked and said, oh, here's some back issue of valiance, and the price on these things was 10 valiance for five dollars. Okay, so I looked at the lots and almost all of them. There were a couple where some of the valiance were put together with other indie books that I didn't grab, but this is what they had. Me, well, none of the other comic bookstores have these, right? So 10 valiant comics for only $4.99. Yes, please. That's for how many? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And that was basically all the ones that they had. So that's 100 valiant books for 50 bucks, 50 cents a pop. Pretty happy about this. So I figured that, I don't know what's in these. I asked them if they had any rhyme or reason with them, and they said, no. We just took the valiance and put them in there. I said, okay, okay, I might as well grab them. So I'm gonna crack these open and take a look at to see what's inside. And we'll go through this quickly, because I do need to bag and port these, and they look to be in really good shape. So I think they just took them off the racks and put them in packs and decided to dump them. Right? These guys had, I brought scissors so I can cut the pack they're in. Now this guy had XO number 27 on the front. They're in pretty good shape. What do we got? We got XO number 27. Let's run through these, right? XO number 27. XO number 29, which is very sweet. I had to go to a few different places to be able to get some of the early XOs. I do have, I was able to pick up XO number one, but I'm missing some of the ones from less than 10. XO number 28. XO number zero. Right. Nice. Oh my god, there's harbinger number one. Check this out. Wow. Very nice. Oh, this is the dollar one. This is the reprint. I was like so excited. I do have the first issue of this, but another one would have been sweet. There's none around. You can't find it. Harbinger number three. Very nice. Look at that cover. Beautiful. If you haven't read harbinger, you're in for a treat. Harbinger number five. Very nice. Very nice. And this was harbinger number 16. Right? Okay. That's the first 10 pack lots. Let's put these on one side gently because they are in pretty good shape. Let's crack another one. We have the 50 cents of pop. And armor hunters number one. Very nice. The one thing with the comic book industry, it's very much a funny industry. If it's not, especially if you're into reading comics, harbinger's number one. Number nine. I'm still missing archer and armstrong number one. I don't have it. And I can't find it anywhere. 22. I've been looking online, but the prices are going up for these. Number zero. And they're getting very hard to find. Number eight. Very nice. Number seven. I used to love reading archer and armstrong. I haven't read this new relaunch yet. Number two. Right? And here's the dollar reprint of number one, which is perfect. And these are in good shape. Fantastic shape. Very nice. Okay. Oh, that's fantastic shape. Really good shape. Right? Very fine plus harbinger. What an issue this is. Wow. If you read while zero to 23, this one is a kick. And 25 is beautiful. They're all magnificent. And an award number 27 to find out what the print run of these is, since it was so hard to find them, right? And the print run on a lot of these is extremely low. Wow. I couldn't believe it. Some of these, the print runs on average, they're anywhere between print runs on these or anywhere between 10 to 20,000. That's it. Right? Number one is pushing the 2020 for XO was more from what I could find. You know, if they're number ones, they're maybe 20, 25,000. And as the numbers increase, the print run drops, drops, some of these that looked, you know, I haven't checked out my second sources and stuff. I just checked one source because I was getting frustrated. I couldn't find these, right? Some of them are as low as like 10,000, sometimes less. Number 27. Oh, that's the other side. So what have we got? That was XO number 27. Harbinger number 24. Very nice. Number 23. I read these. These are double whatever, right? This was a very good story. And the bleeding monk is the first scythe born with special powers. And I read the harbinger all the way to 25. And after that is harbinger omegas. And I was, I've been looking everywhere for this. And I had to get a comic shop to back order it. And he's, you know, they said I could get it. But I got it. Right. It's okay. I'll get the other one too since I ordered it. Right. So harbinger omega is number one. Oh, number two is not here. Oh yes, there is. All right. Armor hunters. Okay. So we got harbinger, armor hunters. Number one, armor hunters, number two, omegas. Harbinger omegas, number two. And armor hunters, number three. Look at this. Armor hunters, number two. That's a mask good cover that you can actually cut out, which you're not going to do. Right. And what's on the other side? Archer and Armstrong, number 12. So how many of them? That's like three we've gone through. We've got some beautiful goodies. Let's see. This is perforated as a mask. Armor hunters, number one. Archer and Armstrong, number nine. Number eight. I guess there's doubles of these whoops. Armor hunters, number one aftermath. And here's an Archer and Armstrong, number one, the dollar one again. Maybe a good gift for 18 and number 11. Archer Armstrong was very, very funny. And from what I've heard, this series is amazing as well. It's supposed to be just as good as Quantum and Woody, which I'm really excited about. Delinquents. Delinquents, number one. Very nice. I think Delinquents is omegas for $4.99. I think Delinquents is a crossover of Archer and Armstrong and Quantum and Woody. And if you remember the video where I bought the comic lots, I did buy Shadow Man a lot. I haven't read it yet. Delinquents, number one. I've read Dr. Specter. Oh, I don't know if I've read Dr. Specter. I've read Dr. Mirage, and Dr. Mirage was a good for issue. Oh, look at this. It's ruined. Dexter. This isn't valiant. This is a marvel. Dexter, number one. Dexter, number two. I guess we get Dexter. Number three. It is not valiant, right? So these are dynamite, which is okay. Valiant used to produce published Dr. Specter. And here's Solar, number four. I did start reading The Two Rock from Dynamite. It was okay, but I had to drop it. We already got this one in another pack. Shadow Man, number six. So Delinquents, number one, I think was in here. Yeah, Delinquents, number one is the highlight of this pack. Master Dark. Master Dark is, there's X1, number 17. Master Dark is supposed to be the villain for Book of the Dead. Master Dark. Master Dark and Herada I think of them, you know, in my opinion anyway, they're two of the greatest comic book villains ever. I really like Herada mainly because of the Harbinger books, the storylines, but Master Dark about evil. Anything like Master Dark in any of, not in my opinion anyway, any of the other publishers. X1, number 17, 16. I haven't read Shadow Man yet. Some people are saying it's not their strongest title, but I really like the Shadow Man character. Now here's Two Rock. I already got these I read, you know, up to I think five or so. I guess they put it together with Valiant because Valiant used to have the rights for Two Rock. I think the biggest mistake, Valiant hasn't made any mistakes as far as I've seen in their relaunch, but the only mistake I can say they've made is they didn't take Solar, Magnus, Two Rock and I guess Dr. Spectre. I wish they were doing those books as well. XO, number three. XO, number seven. Nice. I don't think I have this one. This one's Ninjak in there, right? Ninjak is very good as well. I've been reading that. Looking forward to reading XO. I still have a couple of gaps. I think I just filled a couple of them. I think I'm missing number four. Harbinger, number 14. This is a crossover with the Harbinger Wars and wow, that solidified my decision to basically go exclusively Valiant. Almost anyway. Quantum and Woody number two. I've read this one. How hilarious. This, if you haven't read it, I don't know if I'm going to be giving you spoilers. I doubt it if you'll remember to mention a lot of things. I doubt it if you remember to decide to read this. You'll remember this stuff. But when these guys fall out of the building in this issue, I think it's in this issue or the next issue. And the banter between them, when the cops show up, is priceless. And it just got up to 50 cents. I guess more boards and nice. Look at this. Woody number two and Valiant gone. Woody number seven. I haven't read this one. I read the first four or five, I think. There's the goat. I don't know. I haven't read the issue where this guy comes in. Harbinger, number three again. I guess that's three Harbinger, number three. Well, Harbinger, number five. We got this one in another pocket thing. Harbinger, number four, sweet. Harbinger, number 14. This one's damaged here a little bit. Squished it in. Reading copy. This is old school Valiant. I stopped buying Valiants before this bloodshot yearbook, 1994. When they got rid of Jim Shudder, I basically stopped buying Valiant soon after. Go on to my Woody. I don't know what number this is. If you're curious, what you see behind me are the EC comics that I have framed from 1952. These are all from 1952 comics. They're amazing. If you haven't read ECs, you should read ECs. There's lots of reprints available as well, if you're interested. They have them in hard-cover balance books. I have one of them. I read through it. It's fantastic. I've read some of the old EC books. I pulled out a couple of them to my favorites, the annuals. What have we got here? Look, it does a couple of old school bloodshots. Bloodshot yearbook. Bloodshot, number 17, old school. Don't have this one either. We got Shadowman, number 16. Shadowman, number 1. The $1 thing. Reprint, number 3. Sweet. This is the first print. Tell me this is the first print. Oh my god. You won't believe this. You Valiant lovers. Right, number 1. First print. This thing is completely sold out. You can't get this. You can't see it. It's too dark. Oh, that's one second printing. Look at this. First printing. I have a Rai, number 1. I've read it, but it's like a cover. This is the second printing of Rai, number 2. This is completely sold out as well, right? Okay, second printing. Nice. I don't have Shadowman at times. Number 1. Whoever put these packs together at the comic bookstore? Thank you. Quantum Woody, number 6. What's this one? This is Quantum Woody. I don't know what number this is. I think it's a number 4. Yeah, number 4. Quantum Woody, number 4. I don't really have this one, but I don't want to have this cover. That's not bad. 50 cents a pop. Rai, number 1. Very sweet. I got two more packs left. Look at this. Exo number Bloodshot first. It's 4.99. So Bloodshot, Hard Corpse, number 18. I haven't read this one. I read it all the way to the end of the Harbinger Wars with Bloodshot, the crossover. After that, I just started going to the comic shops and trying to buy back issues because I had gaps. I wanted to read Bloodshot number 12. Sweet. This is Harbinger Wars. I've read this one. Number 11. For those of you who don't know, they're making the Harbinger Wars into a movie. Bloodshot is the first movie they're making from what I've heard. I guess that's my next reading because I think I stopped at number 13. Number 15. From what I've heard, Bloodshot is the first and then Harbinger and then Harbinger Wars. So there's a serious amount of stories coming from Valiant. If you want to know how Valiant's doing according to number 17, this is a nice run. Thank you, thank you, whoever you are that put this. Yeah, just to let you know about the numbers. From Diamond's list of that the print runs was what they shipped last month, or was it the month before I can remember. Valiant, since I've been checking for the last year or so, the ones that I've come across a year and a half or two years, Valiant was always categorized as the other publisher because they didn't make it in the top 10. The last one that I looked at is either June or May. May or June I think was May. The numbers that they released, Valiant was number nine. So they've made it out of the other publishers into number nine. One of the trade paperbacks made it into the top 10 out of all the publishers, the trade paperbacks that they released. I think it was Harbinger that made it into the top 10 of the top trade paperbacks sold. Okay, so there is a lot of people jumping onto the Valiant books here and this is the last, so I guess there's like three of these we've got so far. I wonder what's in this one? And at the back it's number two, Kaunton and Woody number two. Really if you want, if you want a funny read, this is it. I haven't read the new Archer Armstrong yet so I can't comment on that yet if it's as good as Kaunton and Woody, but from what I've heard it's just as good. And I know the old stuff, Archer Armstrong was fantastic. Maybe Unity until Jim Schubert was there. Again, I don't know how many of these we've got, three of them. XO number three, XO number eight. I don't think I have this one either, nice. Another one filled. XO one dollar one. We saw this one already, XO number 12. XO number 17. Shadow one number 12. It's like a lottery. It's like I'm hoping to get into the Rye number one here. I shadow one number eight. What's this? Geomancer, this is like old school Geomancer. Geomancer number one. Wow, glossy. I didn't pick up this one. I was, I dropped all the Valiants by the time this came around. I might give it a read. Silver foil cover. The gimmick covers at the time. Some of that stuff around now. And this was Kaunton and Woody number three. Very nice. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to share with you what I just came home with. I was really happy about it, okay. Excited to read these and just as a nice read recommendation. If you want to read some amazing stories, Valiant has some books for you, depending on what you're into, right? Do a little research, read up on forums, give it a shot. They got from humor to very, very serious books. And it's a brilliant universe. And I plan on continuing to read Valiants and collect them as long as the quality stays up here. And I can't see the quality dropping. Like, I don't think anybody else, any other publisher is doing anything like Valiant right now. They're magnificent reads. And again, thank you whoever put these talks together. I might go back and see if you put any more together. Okay. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.