Defiant Comics

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Defiant Comics was a comic book publishing imprint of Enlightened Entertainment Partners, LP. Defiant was established in 1993 by former Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter.

1 Publication history
2 Announced plans
3 Titles
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Publication history

Defiant was founded in the wake of Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant. After attempting, unsuccessfully, to retain his partial ownership of Voyager Communications (Valiant's parent company) Shooter founded a new company that included some Valiant artists and writers on its staff. He formed a business venture with The River Group to help finance Defiant.^{[citation needed]}

In early 1993, Defiant announced that its first title, Plasm, would, innovatively, be released as a series of trading cards that could be put together in an album to form "issue #0". Upon hearing the news, Marvel Comics threatened a lawsuit against Defiant, claiming the new title violated a Marvel UK trademark for their book/character Plasmer. Though Defiant changed the title to Warriors of Plasm, Marvel continued its lawsuit. While the court court eventually ruled in favor of Defiant,^{[citation needed]} the legal process depleted the company's capital, having cost over $300,000 in legal fees.^[1] Defiant ended publication in Summer 1995.

[edit] Announced plans

Shooter had originally planned to publish an intracompany "crossover" featuring all the characters and titles in the self-contained Defiant universe,^{[citation needed]} similar to the Secret Wars crossover miniseries he had done at Marvel. To have been titled "Schism", the crossover was intended to take place in a four-issue miniseries, with the regular ongoing titles retelling the parts relevant to the respective characters of each. Only two crossover-related issues (Dogs of War #5 and Warriors of Plasm #13) were published before the company went out of business. The plots for the miniseries were eventually posted online.^{[citation needed]}