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Publisher: Acclaim / Valiant
Years in Operation: 1990 - 2002
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 16 Indicia Publishers: 6 Series: 192 Printings: 1277 (1201 Issues) Disclose Notes:     Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Acclaim Adventure Zone {Comic Books} 1997 - 3
Adventures of the Super Mario Bros. {Comic Books} 1990 - 1991 9
Adventures of TheO {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway produced for SpaghettiOs.
1993 - 1
Adventures of TheO - The Great Ballistic Challenge {Comic Books} 1993 - 1
Antiquities War on the World of Magic the Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Magic the Gathering limited series.
1995 - 1996 4
Arabian Nights on the World of Magic: The Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Magical adventures with an Arabian feel to them. Based on Magic the Gathering collectible card game, Arabian Nights expansion set.
1995 - 1996 2
Archer & Armstrong {Comic Books} 1992 - 1994 27 (28)
Armed and Dangerous {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Mature Readers.
1996 - 4
Armed and Dangerous Hell's Slaughterhouse {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Mature Readers.
1996 - 1997 4
Armed and Dangerous Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Mature Readers.
1996 - 1
Armorines {Comic Books} 1994 - 1995 13
Armorines {Comic Books} 1999 - 2000 4
The Bad Eggs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First limited series. Story continued in The Bad Eggs: That Dirty Yellow Mustard (Acclaim, 1996 series).
1996 - 1997 4
The Bad Eggs: That Dirty Yellow Mustard {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second limited series. Continued from The Bad Eggs (Acclaim, 1996 series).
1996 - 1997 4
Bar Sinister {Comic Books} 1995 - 4
Battlemania {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title with different print style is World Wrestling Federation Battlemania.
1991 - 1992 5
Baywatch Comic Stories {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fumetti type foto stories based on the television series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Gregory J. Bonann. First issue has the title "Baywatch Photo Stories" on cover.
1996 - 4
The Best of the Nintendo Comics System {Comic Books} 1990 - 1
The Best of the Nintendo Comics System {Comic Books} 1990 - 1
The Best of the Super Mario Bros. {Hardcovers} 1990 - 1
Bloodshot {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Volume 1.
1993 - 1996 52 (76)
Bloodshot {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second volume. Valiant imprint. Acclaim Comics Inc. publisher detail.
1997 - 1998 17 (18)
Bloodshot Last Stand {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
Bloodshot Yearbook {Comic Books} 1994 - 1
Captain Johner & the Aliens {Comic Books} 1995 - 2
Captain N: The Game Master {Comic Books} 1990 - 6
The Chaos Effect {Comic Books} 1994 - 2 (3)
The Chaos Effect: Epilogue {Comic Books} 1994 - 1995 2
Cheesasaurus Rex {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway comic, produced for Kraft. Reportedly had a 2,000,000 print run.
1991 - 1991 1
Classics Illustrated {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Reprints from the Gilberton Classics Illustrated series with a few new titles (#59, 61 & 62). Titles are not numbered except as part of the ISBN which coincides with their publication order. Announced in 1996, the series first saw distribution of four issues in February 1997. The first few issues have 1996 copyright dates. However, the actual cover dates can be determined from the publication schedule found on the inside back cover or inside front cover of each issue. The series collapsed in early-1998 and many announced titles were never printed. Reference issue numbers as follows: 1. Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) 2. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) 3. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) 4. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brönte) 5. Hamlet (William Shakespeare) 6. The Odyssey (Homer) 7. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) 8. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevski) 9. A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare) 10. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) 11. The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain) 12. Moby Dick (Herman Melville) 13. Macbeth (William Shakespeare) 14. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) 15. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain) 16. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) 17. Stories by Poe (Edgar Allan Poe) 18. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) 19. Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) 20. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) 21. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) 22. Typee (Herman Melville) 23. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) 24. The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) 25. A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne) 26. From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne) 27. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) 28. Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) 29. More Stories by Poe (Edgar Allan Poe) 30. The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas) 31. Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) 32. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) 33. Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain) 34. The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) 35. Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) 36. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) 37. The Red Badge of Courage (Jonathan Crane) 38. The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 39. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) 40. The Call of the Wild (Jack London) 41. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 42. The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) 43. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) 44. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) 45. Captains Courageous (Rudyard Kipling) 46. The Master of Ballantrae (Robert Louis Stevenson) 47. Silas Marner (George Elliot) 48. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brönte) 49. Don Quixote (Miguel Cervantes) 50. A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) 51. The Iliad (Homer) 52. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) 53. Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson) 54. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) 55. Around the World in 80 Day (Jules Verne) 56. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque) 57. Kim (Rudyard Kipling) 58. Faust (Wolfgang von Goethe) 59. Henry IV--Part 1 (William Shakespeare) 60. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) 61. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 62. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy) A promo in 57 Kim lists The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (61) for March 1998 publication along with three others -- Alice in Wonderland; Twenty Years After; and The Deerslayer.
1997 - 1998 62
Concrete Jungle: The Legend of the Black Lion {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Intended as a 6-issue Limited Series. Only one issue was ever published.
1998 - 1
Convocations - A Magic: The Gathering Gallery {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: One-shot
1996 - 1
Dakkon Blackblade on the World of Magic: The Gathering {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
Darque Passages {Comic Books} 1994 - 1
Darque Passages {Comic Books} 1998 - 4
Deadside {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover titled Shadowman Presents Deadside. Scheduled as a 4-issue limited series.
1999 - 3
Destroyer {Comic Books} 1995 - 1 (2)
Disney's Action Club {Comic Books} 1997 - 4
Disney's Beauty and the Beast Holiday Special {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Disney's Enchanting Stories {Comic Books} 1997 - 5
Disney's The Little Mermaid "Underwater Engagements" {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Dr. Tomorrow {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover title is Doctor Tomorrow. Indicia title is Dr. Tomorrow.
1997 - 1998 12
Eternal Warrior {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published by Valiant, a division of Voyager Communications, Inc. (#1-33) then as Valiant, a division of Acclaim Comics, Inc. (#34-50). Monthly (#1-34, 49, 50) and biweekly (#35-48).
1992 - 1996 50 (52)
Eternal Warrior Special {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
Eternal Warrior Yearbook {Comic Books} 1993 - 2
Eternal Warrior: Fist and Steel {Comic Books} 1996 - 2
Eternal Warriors: Archer & Armstrong {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Eternal Warriors: Blackworks {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
Eternal Warriors: Digital Alchemy {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Eternal Warriors: Mog {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
Eternal Warriors: The Immortal Enemy {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
Eternal Warriors: Time and Treachery {Comic Books} 1997 - 1 (2)
Fallen Empires on the World of Magic the Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fallen Empires is the story of the immortal Tymolin Loneglade during an Age of Collapse. Based on the Fallen Empires subset of the collectible card game, Magic the Gathering.
1995 - 2
Fallen Empires on the World of Magic the Gathering {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
Fox Kids Funhouse {Comic Books} 1997 - 2
Free-View {Comic Books} 1995 - 1
Game Boy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue #5 appears to have never been published.
1990 - 4
Geomancer {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Titled "The Geomancer Guardian of Earth" on cover only.
1994 - 1995 8
GOAT: H.A.E.D.U.S. {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
The Grackle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Created by Mike Baron and Paul Gulacy for Acclaim Comics Crime Fiction line of titles.
1997 - 4
Gravediggers {Comic Books} 1996 - 1997 4
The H.A.R.D. Corps {Comic Books} 1992 - 1995 30 (32)
Harbinger {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue #1 had two versions with the only difference being the color of the bird on the outside of the plastic bag that came wrapped around the cover--Regular edition was black (Retail Edition), variant was blue (Diamond Distribution Edition) (Per Roy Kilpela, May 30, 2006).
1992 - 1994 2
Harbinger {Comic Books} 1992 - 1995 42 (43)
Harbinger Files {Comic Books} 1994 - 2
Harbinger: Acts of God {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
Hercules: Official Comics Movie Adaptation {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Homelands on the World of Magic: The Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the collectible card game.
1996 - 1
Ice Age on the World of Magic the Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Magical tales of the Ice Age on Dominaria. Based on the Ice Age Supplement to the Magic the Gathering collectible card game.
1995 - 4
Ice Age on the World of Magic the Gathering {Comic Books} 1995 - 2
Kenny Kid and Hop Hop {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway produced for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Reportedly had a 1,000,000 print run.
1992 - 1
Killer Instinct {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue 2 and 3 are both dated July 1996. Story continued in Killer Instinct Special (Acclaim / Valiant, 1996 series) #1-3.
1996 - 3
Killer Instinct Nintendo Power Exclusive Edition {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
Killer Instinct Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Story continued from Killer Instinct (Acclaim / Valiant, 1996 series) #1-3. In the indicia these three issues are also listed as Killer Instinct #4-6.
1996 - 3
Knighthawk {Comic Books} 1995 - 6
Legend of Jedit Ojanen: On the World of Magic: The Gathering {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Copyright Wizards of the Coast.
1996 - 2
Legend of the Fallen Angel on the World of Magic: The Gathering {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
The Legend of Zelda {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Volume 1 and 2. There are two series. The first run is $1.95 each, undated covers. (May 1990 through September 1990) These are listed in series: http://www.xowcomics.com/series_issues.htm?series_id=16511 Link: The Legend of Zelda (Acclaim / Valiant, 1990 Series) A reprint run started nine months later. Each is $1.50, with months on the covers (February 1991 through June 1991). The second run reverses the covers used on issues 2 and 4. These are listed in series: http://www.xowcomics.com/series_issues.htm?series_id=39934 The Legend of Zelda (Acclaim / Valiant, 1990 Series)
1991 - 5
Link: The Legend of Zelda {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on Nintendo licensed characters. Cover titled "The Legend of Zelda". Publication dates are the On-Sale dates. There are two series. The first run is $1.95 each, undated covers. (May 1990 through September 1990) These are listed in series: http://www.xowcomics.com/series_issues.htm?series_id=16511 The Legend of Zelda (Acclaim / Valiant, 1990 Series) A reprint run started nine months later. Each is $1.50, with months on the covers (February 1991 through June 1991). The second run reverses the covers used on issues 2 and 4. These are listed in series: http://www.xowcomics.com/series_issues.htm?series_id=39934 The Legend of Zelda (Acclaim / Valiant, 1990 Series)
1990 - 5 (6)
Magic the Gathering: Wayfarer {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Further adventures of the Shadow Mage as he wanders Dominia. Based on Magic the Gathering collectible card game.
1995 - 1996 5
Magic: The Gathering - Nightmare {Comic Books} 1995 - 1
Magic: the Gathering - The Shadow Mage {Comic Books} 1995 - 1996 2
Magic: The Gathering -- Elder Dragons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover title: Elder Dragons - A Magic: The Gathering Legend.
1996 - 2
Magic: The Gathering -- Shandalar {Comic Books} 1996 - 2
Magic: The Gathering -- The Shadow Mage {Comic Books} 1995 - 4
Magnus Robot Fighter {Comic Books} 1991 - 1996 65 (67)
Magnus Robot Fighter {Comic Books} 1997 - 1998 18 (19)
Magnus Robot Fighter Invasion TPB {Trade Paperbacks} 1994 - 1
Magnus Robot Fighter Yearbook {Comic Books} 1994 - 1
Magnus, Robot Fighter: Steel Nation {Trade Paperbacks} 1994 - 1
Master Darque {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
Master Darque Retailer Review Copy {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Mutant Chronicles: Golgotha {Comic Books} 1996 - 4
N.I.O. {Comic Books} 1998 - 1999 4
Ninjak {Comic Books} 1994 - 1995 28 (33)
Ninjak {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: In all issues the indicia reads: Published by VALIANT, a division of Acclaim Comics, Inc..
1997 - 1998 12 (13)
Ninjak Yearbook {Comic Books} 1994 - 1
Nintendo Comics System {Comic Books} 1991 - 9
Nintendo Comics System Sneak Preview {Comic Books} 1990 - 1
Operation: Stormbreaker {Comic Books} 1997 - 1

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