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"Universally acclaimed as the most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time, Prince Valiant ran for 35 years under the virtuoso pen of its creator, Hal Foster. (Such was its popularity that today, decades after Foster's death, it continues to run under different hands.) The giant Sunday-funnies pages (Valiant ran only on Sundays) gave Foster a huge canvas upon which he was able to limn epic swordfights, stunning scenes of pomp and pageantry,...
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"You might think that birth of Prince Valiant's son Arn at the end of the previous volume would have slowed down Val's adventuring, but you would be wrong. After the baby has been christened, Valiant and Gawain are dispatched to investigate reports of black magic in Wales, ending up in pitched battle at the aptly-named Castle Illwynde. Then it's off to Scotland to battle the Picts, and then home yet again for Val to visit his growing boy. Valiant...
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"Arn and Sir Gawain become trapped in a lost, lush land presided over by the mad Duke Cyril and the entombed object of his desire. In Thule, Prince Valiant defends the King of the Inner Lands from a war party led by a giant. Beetle Bailey gag-writer Jerry Dumas introduces this volume with a remembrance of his friendship with Prince Valiant artist John Cullen Murphy. Also: Hal Foster's complete 1943 comic strip adaptation of Franz Werfel's popular...
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"Prince Valiant was chosen Best Story Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in 1971, the year the last of Hal Foster's full art on the strip appeared. With this volume, John Cullen Murphy--Foster's hand-picked successor--takes over, working from Foster's scripts and detailed page layouts. Prince Valiant rescues Guiveric's loved one from Astaric and begins an epic quest to win back the heart of Aleta. Val and Arn travel to Aleta's Misty Isles,...
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"Prince Valiant journeys from the Alps to the bowels of the Earth on a quest for humility involving the mysterious Wanderer, a curse on the kingdom, monstrous imps, and a mystical casket. Mordred's invasion of Britain culminates in the siege of Camelot. Aleta's pregnancy promises to bring a new child into the family, but the newly crowned Emperor Justinian plots to have the infant stolen at birth. Arn begins a dangerous courtship of the huntress maiden...
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Prince Valiant and his band of heroes are making their way back to the Kingdom of Thule by way of Constantinople and Eastern Russian when they are attacked by a tribe of barbarians who kidnap Aleta for the great Dragada Khan, who wants to make her one of his wives. After neraly being killed in battle, Val returns to his homeland only to find the threat of hunger hovers over Thule. As Val explores new ways of feeding the kingdom's growing populace,...
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