Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

I might was have been twenty um five.

Four twenty four Okay.

Okay.

Um That sounds like a twenty four year old move.

Yeah.

And I was like I was kinda disappointed, but I was kill still kinda like, I'm moving to New York City and I hate graduate school, so I'm depressed, but who cares ultimately, you know.

Yeah.

And uh So is

It's a good place to be

Yeah, so I ended up moving out here and I did some independent comics.

R Steve and I ended up scraping the uh serial numbers off Gardinal's Law and we did a series called The Silencers, which was what we sold to Malibu.

But A

If you know anything about the Marble uh Malibu characters, you'll know that m Marvel slash Disney has locked them into a vault and then, you know, dropped in the middle of a volcano and then poured concrete into the volcano.

Like because of the way the that

those guys and, you know, generously sho so made sure the writers ha owned like like the ownership split of the 'cause they're trying to loop pr lear people away from image, right? 'Cause Malibu was the original distributor of Image and that's where they they got all their money from.

So that's that's how they launched it.

And that was during the same time Valiant, the first Valiant started and the first um

When Dark Horse was doing Comic's greatest world.

All that stuff.

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