Acclaim Comics
In 1994, Valiant Comics was purchased by Acclaim Entertainment, a video game company. When Acclaim Comics restarted all its properties from scratch, Solar's origin was left untouched. In a four-part limited series, it was revealed that the Acclaim Universe was an alternate Valiant Universe timeline that was accidentally created by Solar. He sought to erase the Acclaim Universe from existence, but was opposed by the Seleski twins, alternate versions of himself. He departed from the Acclaim Universe, leaving a portion of his powers to the Seleski twins.
During the "Unity 2000" crossover, Solar rallied heroes from VH-0 Universe to stop Acclaim Universe's Master Darque from causing a multiverse-wide disaster. According to the series plot, the other heroes would eventually discover that Solar had his own malevolent agenda in mind. Since Unity 2000 wasn't published beyond issue 3, this never came to pass.
Even with some success in the comics, Acclaim suffered from too much debt due to major flops of its video games. In 2004, the company filed for bankruptcy and put its assets up for auction. The license for Solar lapsed, with the rights reverting to Random House, which acquired Western Publishing's properties in 2001.
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