Even the publisher didn't want to do the comics. (Score 3, Interesting)

Interestingly, these comics were screwed from the get-go. In a 1998 interview, Jim Shooter talked about how Valiant Comics was supposed to receive a great deal of support from Nintendo - essentially benefiting the products of both Nintendo & Valiant - but instead, Nintendo never delivered.

This then was a huge stumbling block early on in Valiant's history, nearly crippling them before they had even begun.

(Of course, it's worth noting - as the main article does - that the actual Nintendo comics weren't all that great. Interestingly, this is entirely at odds with the early period of Valiant's subsequent superhero work, often regarded as unusually well-done - especially for the time. Considering Nintendo's infamous game standards, one has to wonder if the disparity in quality was due to the created comics going through a number of N-overseen committees and censors before pen was ever put to paper.)