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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 formerMarvel Comics andValiant Comics editor-in-chiefJim Shooter.[1]
Defiant was founded one year after Jim Shooter's departure fromValiant 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 aMarvel UK trademark for their book/characterPlasmer. Though Defiant changed the title toWarriors of Plasm, Marvel continued its lawsuit. While the court eventually ruled in favor of Defiant,[4] the legal process depleted the company'scapital, having cost over $300,000 in legal fees.[5] Defiant ceased publication in Summer 1995.
Shooter had originally planned to publish an intracompany "crossover" featuring all the characters and titles in the self-contained Defiant universe, similar to theSecret Wars crossoverminiseries he had done at Marvel and theUnity crossoverminiseries he had also completed before his dismissal atValiant.[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 andWarriors of Plasm #13) were published before the company went out of business. The plots for the miniseries were eventually posted online.[6]
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