. . "Valiant was founded in 1989 by Jim Shooter, a former editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, and was home to several of the industry's best-known writers and artists, including Frank Miller, Bryan Hitch, Neal Adams, Barry Windsor Smith, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennish as well as current Marvel chief creative officer Joe Quesada and DC Comics' co-publisher Jim Lee." . . . . .