COMIC ARCHIVE; ONE EYED JACK AND THE DEATH OF VALIANT

[David McDonald]

Firstly, I hope Im not stepping on anyones toes promoting this here, but I do think it will be of interest.
I have put together a new mag on comics called Comic Archive, which will hopefully be a semi regular look at the more obscure and forgotten stories, titles and creators of comics.
The first one is One Eyed Jack and the Death of Valiant, it featured articles and interviews with John Wagner, John Cooper, Kevin O'Neill, Jan Shepheard, as well as contributions from Kelvin Gosnell and Dave Hunt plus more.
32 pages plus covers, B&W and colour too, all for £3.99 plus £1.50 post, or a digital download for £1.50 all available for the excellent comicsy site here http://www.comicsy.co.uk/hibernia/
NOT AVAILABLE IN SHOPS!
For more information visit my blog http://www.hiberniabook.blogspot.com

'excellent, well researched and facinating to read' - Steve Holland

'a gem' - John

[SID]

Thanks, David. Being a Valiant fan (though I never got it at the time), I have just ordered a copy.

[matthew emery]

just ordered, look forward to reading this.

[wilsia]

Ive ordered mine too, VALLIANT was a great comic and the strips captured the mood and culture of the 70s.

[big bad bri]

I never bought valiant or saw a copy. i always thought one eyed jack was an 80s eagle character until i found this site

[David McDonald]

Thanks for ordering folks, first batch went in the post yesterday, so they should be dropping through letterboxes in the next few days!

[bubbadog]

Got it, love it, thanks for producing it.

Please sir, can I have some more!!

Pete

[big bad bri]

david im gutted i missed out on your the 13th floor book as i bought the Doomlord one from you many moons ago,i wish you made further Doomlord etc, volumes

[SID]

Got it Thursday and a very interesting read.

Now I wonder what would have happened if instead of launching 2000AD, IPC invested the new characters into Valiant (along with the characters from a Starlord merger)?

Would Valiant be around today? Possibly starring classic characters as Adam Eterno, etc...?

Intriguing.

[David McDonald]

Thanks so much for the comments, glad you like it!

No more Doomlord Im afraid, the licence was too expencive for me.
I do have more of Comic Archive planned, I have the second and third book mapped out, and quiet a bit of material gathered for it, it depends on how quickly this sells to be able to print more. If you know of others that may like this spread the word

Thanks!

[matthew emery]

arrived today, only had a glance through but looks like a cracker read, look forward to the next one!

[David McDonald]

Thanks Matthew, hope you enjoy it, Lew Stringer did, he wrote a very nice piece on his blog here;
http://lewstringer.blogspot.ie/2012/11/ ... t-era.html

Cheers!

[David McDonald]

I have being busy getting my second book which will be Comic Archive; Beyond 2000, it will be out very soon.
In the meantime I put together a Facebook page and I have put a few interesting bits that I found while researching the new book. It may be of interest to some here, its at
https://www.facebook.com/HiberniaComics?ref=hl

Cheers

David

[colcool007]

David, I got my copy today and I am very impressed with it. I have one comment. Page 3 has Cadman being featured in Warlord. Cadman was actually a Victor character.

That strip featured beautiful art by Mike Dorey and was a delight to read.

Otherwise, what a great little gem and worth the few bawbees that you are asking of it.

[David McDonald]

Delighted you have enjoyed it, and thanks for buying!
I will be doing another Comic Archive later in the year, more on IPC's output form the late seventies/eighties. Thanks for the pointer on Cadman, will be corrected in future editions, which will be soon enough, One Eyed Jack is sold out to a handful of issues.