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554: Valiant's Nintendo Comics

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

When the NES was born, so too were books based on Nintendo's characters. Nadia Oxford leads an essential conversation about the gilded age when Valiant Comics took a crack at putting Mario et al. on paper.

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0:00.0

This week on Eternats, play Game Boy and do Crimes.

0:26.1

Hello, one and all. Welcome to Eternats.

0:28.0

I'm your host for this month, Nadia Oxford.

0:30.3

If you recall last month, I talked about comics that were included with your

0:33.6

childhood issues of Nintendo Power, Star Fox, Alda, Super Metroid, you know,

0:39.1

pretty good stuff. So I'm not done talking about childish things. I'm never done.

0:42.9

So this month, I decided we're going to be talking a bit about

0:45.6

the Valiant Nintendo Comics published in the West by Valiant Comics in the early 90s.

0:51.1

And this should be a ton of painful fun, I suppose, because this comic does have a few

0:56.4

skeletons up its sleeve. But first, I'm going to introduce my two guests.

1:00.7

One of my comic book-consuming deviant friends here is writer Daniel Casor.

1:05.5

Say hi, Daniel, tell us what you do.

1:07.0

Hi, from 2010 to 2017, I ran post arcade.

1:12.1

The video games vertical at the National Post in Canada.

1:15.3

Since then, I've been laying low and by laying low, I mean,

1:18.7

getting paid work that is not related to video games because that seems to be the

1:23.1

thing that you do these days.

1:24.7

You kind of do. I've slunk away from video game writing, but I'm still writing.

1:29.1

You just can't find me as easily as you used to be able to.

1:31.6

I think I remember post arcade. I'm sure I read it. So that's really cool.

1:36.7

Yeah, like we were both in Toronto and probably going to the same press events,

1:40.7

but I don't know that we ever met.

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