Editing Jim Shooter (section)

=== Valiant Comics ===
{{Main|Valiant Comics}}
Shooter and his investors then founded a new company, Voyager Communications, which published comics under the [[Valiant Comics]] banner, entering the market in 1989 with comics based on [[Nintendo]] and [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] licensed characters. Two years later Valiant entered the superhero market with a relaunch of the [[Gold Key Comics]] character [[Magnus, Robot Fighter]]. Another Gold Key character, [[Solar, Man of the Atom]] was also relaunched later in the same year. Shooter brought many of Marvel's creators to Valiant, including [[Bob Layton]] and [[Barry Windsor-Smith]], as well as industry veterans such as [[Don Perlin]]. Valiant also established "knob row", in which creators were taught how to render the company's comics in the Valiant style.<ref name="McLelland">McLelland, Ryan. [http://sequart.org/magazine/28120/valiant-days-valiant-nights-a-look-back-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-valiant/ "Valiant Days, Valiant Nights"; Sequart Organization]</ref>

Occasionally over the years, Shooter was required to fill in as penciller on various books he wrote or oversaw as editor. During his period as Valiant's publisher, money and talent were often at a premium, and Shooter was sporadically forced to pencil a story. To conceal this fact, he drew under the pseudonym of '''Paul Creddick''', the name of his brother-in-law.<ref name="Petrilak">Petrilak, Joe. [http://www.valiantcomics.com/Valiant/joe/shooter/  "THE Jim Shooter Interview"; The Valiant Era Online; July 22, 1998. Retrieved August 12, 2008.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718125429/http://www.valiantcomics.com/Valiant/joe/shooter |date=July 18, 2016 }}</ref>