Eddie Deezen lending his voice to animated feature films, including the voice of Donnie Dodo in "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" and Snipes the Magpie in Don Bluth's 1991 film "Rock-A-Doodle". According to a 2011 interview, Deezen unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of the title character in Robert Zemeckis's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", losing out to comedian Charles Fleischer. He was also considered for the role of Judge Doom in the film along with several other actors that were considered but lost the role to Christopher Lloyd. Deezen eventually found full-time voice work on television in the mid-1990s, playing recurring characters
Valiant Comics auctioned off and bought by Valiant Entertainment, while the rights to the three licensed characters ("Solar", "Magnus" and "Turok") reverted to Classic Media (then-owner of the Gold Key Comics properties), which was acquired by DreamWorks Animation SKG in July 2012. In 2005, a group of entrepreneurs led by Dinesh Shamdasani and Jason Kothari raised financing and acquired the rights to the Valiant Comics library from Acclaim Entertainment's estate, forming Valiant Entertainment. In 2007, Valiant hired former Valiant Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter to write new short stories that would accompany hardcover reprints of classic Valiant Universe stories. Two of the three collections