Defiant Comics
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| Founded | 1993 |
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| Founder | Jim Shooter |
| Defunct | 1995 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Publication types | Comics |
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
[edit]Defiant was founded one year after Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant Comics.[2] 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.
In early 1993, Defiant announced that its first title, Plasm, would be released as a series of trading cards that could be put together in an album to form "issue #0".[3] 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 eventually ruled in favor of Defiant,[4] the legal process depleted the company's capital, having cost over $300,000 in legal fees.[5] Defiant ceased publication in Summer 1995.
Announced plans
[edit]Shooter had originally planned to publish an intracompany "crossover" featuring all the characters and titles in the self-contained Defiant universe, similar to the Secret Wars crossover miniseries he had done at Marvel and the Unity crossover miniseries he had also completed before his dismissal at Valiant.[2] 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.[6]
Titles
[edit]Initial
[edit]- Dark Dominion
- The Good Guys
- Warriors of Plasm (originally Plasm)[2]
Second wave
[edit]One-shots
[edit]- The Birth of The Defiant Universe
- Glory
- Great Grimmax
- The Origin of The Defiant Universe aka Defiant Genesis
- Splatterball
Graphic novels
[edit]- Warriors of Plasm – Home For the Holidays (officially titled as Warriors of Plasm Graphic Novel #1 in the comic's legal indicia)
Trade paperback
[edit]- Warriors of Plasm: The Collected Edition (Feb. 1994) (reprints Warriors of Plasm #0–4 and Splatterball)
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Newswatch: Shooter Forms New Comics Company: Defiant Comics is New Imprint" The Comics Journal #155 (January 1993), p. 23.
- ^ a b c Staff (June 1993). "Shooter's Return A Defiant Act". Wizard magazine. Wizard magazine. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
- ^ "Newswatch: Defiant Shooter to Produce Plasm", The Comics Journal #158 (Apr. 1993), pp. 25–26.
- ^ "Legal News: Defiant Wins Judgement on Plasm", The Comics Journal #163 (November 1993), p. 14.
- ^ Jim Shooter Interview: Part 2, Comic Book Resources, October 10, 2000
- ^ Defiant Timeline, Shooterswork
References
[edit]- Defiant Comics at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Defiant Comics at the Grand Comics Database
- World Talk Radio: Interview with Jim Shooter
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