X-O Manowar

X-O Manowar
X-O Manowar. Pullbox cover to issue #1. Art by Cary Nord.
Publication information
Publisher	Valiant Comics
First appearance	X-O Manowar #1 (February 1992)
Created by	Jim Shooter Bob Layton
In-story information
Alter ego	Aric of Dacia Donovan Wylie
Team affiliations	Orb Industries Unity
Abilities	X-O Armor/Shanhara •Enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, invulnerability, and healing process •Flight •Scan Cloaking •Energy manipulation •Constructs •Blasts •Absorption •X-Ray vision •Halted aging •Technopathy •Sensory Arrays •Omnilinguism •Missiles •Teleportation •ESP
X-O Manowar
Series publication information
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Publication date	(Valiant Entertainment) May 2012 – Ongoing (Acclaim Comics) February 1997 – June 1999 (Valiant Comics) February 1992 – September 1996
Number of issues	(Valiant Entertainment) 54 (Acclaim Comics) 21 (Valiant Comics) 71

X-O Manowar (Aric of Dacia) is a fictional superhero co-created by writer and former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and artist Bob Layton.

The eponymous comic book series published by Valiant Comics has sold more than 8 million copies to date. X-O Manowar has also starred in a video game alongside Marvel Comics's Iron Man. X-O Manowar comics have been translated into a number of languages including German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Filipino, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.

X-O Manowar began as an original character by Valiant Comics with issue #1 with a cover date of February 1992. Less than a year after it began, with the Unity crossover and quality storytelling bringing attention to Valiant books, back issue prices rose dramatically due to limited early print runs. With comic book speculators buying multiple copies of each issue, sales reached as high as 800,000 copies for X-O Manowar #0 (August 1993) before dropping off. This original series ran for 68 issues before being canceled after the Sept. 1996 issue, of which only approximately 14,000 were printed.

Issues #1–4 of the original X-O Manowar series were reprinted in a trade paperback, X-O Manowar: Retribution, which sold over 150,000 copies. Issues #7 and #8 were reprinted as part of the Unity Saga trade paperbacks.

Valiant Entertainment began its relaunch of the Valiant Universe with May 2012's X-O Manowar. This new ongoing series is being written by Robert Venditti with pencils by Cary Nord.