X-O Manowar #1 (VFNM) Valiant Comics 2012) signed Robert venditti For Sale

This is a very nice X-O Manowar #1, featuring cover variant "A" from the talents of David Aja, Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, Moose Baumann, Cary Nord, Stefano Gaudiano, and Esad Ribic. The story is titled "Blades and Open Fields" and is written & signedby Robert Venditt and is bagged and boardedwith a witnessed and notarized certificate of authenticity (COA). The comic book is in excellent condition, graded at 9.0 Very Fine-Near Mint (VFNM) at 95% market Near Mint price. It is a 1st printing, 2nd edition (vol. 2), and is a must-have for any fan of action, superheroes, adventure, drama, or science fiction. Robert Venditti is an American comic book writer, known for his work on DC Comics when he took over Green Lantern & Green Lantern Corps (June 2013) and for the Valiant Comics title X-O Manowar. He has also worked on DC Comics titles such as The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League, Hawkman and Superman '78. He adapted the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus book series by Rick Riordan into graphic novels. He attended the University of Florida where he received a B.A. in Political Science and English. Later moving to the Port St. John/Titusville area in Brevard County to attend the University of Central Florida (M.A. in Creative Writing) and working at a Borders Books store in Winter Park. In about 2000, while working at Borders, a coworker recommended comics books as reading material to him. Though the skeptical, Venditti read Kurt Busiek's Astro City and was impressed enough to decide to change his career aspirations from prose to comics. In May 2012, Valiant Entertainment chose Venditti to take the helm of writing the X-O Manowar series. He began his first work for DC Comics by accepting Demon Knights (#16) Paul Cornell (who was moving off to other projects).