Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Ladies of the Court


The Lady Maud (left) and Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles watch a tournament at Camelot.


Art: Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy (from page 2127, July 2, 1978).
Text: Hal Foster.
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 48): Return to Camelot, comprising pages, or installments, 2124 (October 23, 1977) through 2167 (August 20, 1978). Fantagraphics Books, 2003.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Far from Beaten



NEXT: Thwarted


See also the previous posts:
Releasing the Djinn
Neshem's Proposal

Art: Gary Gianni (from page 3702, January 20, 2008).
Text: Mark Shultz.
Source: Prince Valiant: Far from Camelot – Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008).

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Man of Action II


Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 203, December 29, 1940).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 2): 1939-1940 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).

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Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 498, August 25, 1946).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 5): 1945-1946 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).



Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 511, November 24, 1946).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 5): 1945-1946 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).



Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 1362, March 17, 1963).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 30): Arn, Son of Valiant, comprising pages 1327 (July 15, 1962) through 1372 (May 26, 1963). (Fantagraphics Books, 1987).



Art: Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy (from page 2127, November 13, 1977).
Text: Hal Foster.
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 48): Return to Camelot, comprising pages, or installments, 2124 (October 23, 1977) through 2167 (August 20, 1978). Fantagraphics Books, 2003.



Art: John Cullen Murphy (from page 2514, April 14, 1985).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: Prince Valiant, Book One (Kings Features Syndicate, 1986).



Art: Gary Gianni (from page 3578, September 4, 2005).
Text: Mark Schultz.
Source: Prince Valiant: Far from Camelot – Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008).



Art: Gary Gianni (from page 3681, August 26, 2007).
Text: Mark Schultz.
Source: JimKeefe.com.



Art: Thomas Yeates (from page 3964, January 27, 2013).
Text: Mark Schultz.
Source: Comics Kingdom.



Art: Thomas Yeates (from page 4021, March 2, 2014).
Text: Mark Schultz.
Source: Comics Kingdom.


See also the previous posts:
Man of Action
Valiant to the Rescue

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Sadonia, Empress of Saramand



Art: Hal Foster (from page 462, December 16, 1945).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 5): 1945-1946 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).

Thursday, April 3, 2014

A Fitting Abode for All the Norse Gods


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Art: Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy (from page 2172, September 24, 1978). At this point in Prince Valiant's run, John Cullen Murphy, who had been quietly assisting Hal Foster since 1970, was well into his first decade of drawing the strip over Foster's writing and roughs.
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 49): Road to Sorrow's End, comprising pages 2168 (August 27, 1978) through 2211 (June 24, 1979). Fantagraphics Books, 2003.