Saturday, May 18, 2024

Eloquent Enough


Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 506, October 20, 1946).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 5): 1945-1946 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).

Sunday, April 21, 2024

A Fairyland of Legend


For more about Prince Valiant’s surreal experience,
click on the image below.


When this story first appeared, I predicted that the “hooded woman who had performed arcane rituals” so as to bewitch Prince Valiant, would turn out to be the sorceress Maldubh, wife of the would-be ruler of Camelot, Draco, whom Valiant dispatched in a story from 2011. I was wrong.

Art: Thomas Yeates (from page 4407, July 25, 2021).
Text: Mark Schultz.
Source: Comics Kingdom.

See also the previous posts:
The Forest
A Weird Trio
Up From the Pit
The Haunted Staircase
Beyond Description
A Nightmare Realm

Monday, March 18, 2024

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Shadowy Figures


In his quest to retrieve the “Singing Sword,” Prince Valiant confronts a horde of shadowy figures gliding and slithering out of the stones of an ancient hilltop ruin.

Art: Thomas Yeates (from page 4539, February 4, 2024).
Source: Comics Kingdom.