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For collectors, these issues simply don’t command high prices on the videogame industry caused Acclaim to pull the plug. The finished
average, but some of them had very low print runs and are increasingly miniseries would have combined the best of both universes into a single
hard to find, particularly in high grade. new Valiant universe. It was not to be.
There was a last hurrah still to come for VH2, however. That same By 2003, Acclaim Entertainment allowed Valiant’s sweetheart
year, they brought back Quantum & Woody (starting with #32, the licenses on Magnus Robot Fighter and Solar: Man of the Atom to
issue they would have reached if it had been published continuously) lapse, keeping only Turok for video games. In 2004, the company was
before resuming with #18. They also launched new volumes of forced into bankruptcy. The assets were sold at auction in 2005 to
Armorines and Shadowman. Valiant Entertainment.
The biggest effort was Unity 2000, a six-part story designed to unify
the original VALIANT and VH2 universes. Scripted by original
VALIANT founder Jim Shooter and illustrated by Jim Starlin and Joe J.C. Vaughn in the President of
Rubenstein, six issues were plotted and illustrated, five were scripted, Gemstone Publishing. Amanda Sheriff is
four were inked, and three had been released when mounting losses in Gemstone’s Editor – Digital.

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piece. It is very pleasing in appear- and hand-forged Gaff hook in the pictures with the binnacle are included
ance and looks as if it just came off in the price, but don’t push your luck!
the deck of an early 1900s Great Buy it, display it, and enjoy it

Lakes steamship. If I were to see David L Moore CPAA
this offered at a well-advertised Certified Professional Antiques Appraiser
nautical antiques auction, I would
expect to pay between $1,800/ *Much of this history was gleaned from the Wikipedia of Binnacles.
$2500+. If you had a signed
notarized document that told what David Moore is part of the school’s “Ask The Experts”
ship it was used on along with the appraising team, and is an honors graduate and “Certified”
history of that ship, I would Asheford Institute of Antiques Appraiser. Moore owns
estimate $3,500/$5,000+ Waterman’s Antiques, was President of the Indiana
Just a suggestion, I would also Archaeo logical Society, and is a published author, with over
ask the seller if the mid-19th 50 years of experience in the research and study of antiques
century signal cannon, telescope, and collectibles.

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