Permission Granted

Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 761, September 9, 1951).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 8): 1951-1952 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2014).

The Ring

See also the previous posts:
• Rumours
• A Distant Memory
• The Forest
• Merlin Ambrosius

Art: John Cullen Murphy (circa 1983).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia); from the collection of Michael J. Bayly (circa 1985).

Merlin Ambrosius

NEXT: The Ring

See also the previous posts:
• Rumours
• A Distant Memory
• The Forest

Art: John Cullen Murphy (circa 1983).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia); from the collection of Michael J. Bayly (circa 1985).

The Forest

NEXT: Merlin Ambrosius

See also the previous posts:
• Rumours
• A Distant Memory

Art: John Cullen Murphy (circa 1983).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia); from the collection of Michael J. Bayly (circa 1985).

A Distant Memory

NEXT: The Forest

See also the previous post:
• Rumours

Art: John Cullen Murphy (circa 1983).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia); from the collection of Michael J. Bayly (circa 1985).

Rumours

NEXT: A Distant Memory

Art: John Cullen Murphy (circa 1983).
Text: Cullen Murphy.
Source: The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia); from the collection of Michael J. Bayly (circa 1985).

A Part of Merlin's Saga

While searching for Merlin's cave in the barren wastelands beyond the town of Myrddin, Prince Valiant encounters the calm and courteous Lionors.

“Why do you seek Merlin's cave?” the old man asks Val.


Art and text: Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy (from page 1777, February 28, 1971).
Text: Hal Foster.
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 18): 1971-1972 – Hal Foster & John Cullen Murphy (Fantagraphics Books, 2018).

See also the previous posts:
• Merlin
• Wise Merlin
• Seeking Merlin's Counsel
• An Appeal to Merlin
• Old Beyond Years
• “It Is Indeed I”

Merlin

. . . and his “volumes of strange lore.”

Art: Hal Foster (from page 60, April 2, 1938).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 1): 1937-1938 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2009).

See also the previous posts:
• Wise Merlin
• Seeking Merlin's Counsel
• An Appeal to Merlin
• Old Beyond Years
• “It Is Indeed I”

An Appeal to Merlin

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See also the previous posts:
• The Face He is Never More to Forget
• The Note
• So Val Goes Questing Across Wide Seas . . .
• Before His Very Eyes
• Heedless of Discovery
• "Once Again I Help You to Escape"

Art and text: Hal Foster (from page #317, March 7, 1943).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 4): 1943-1944 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2011).

Wise Merlin

Sir Gawain is being held hostage by the sorceress Morgan Le Fey. To help rescue him, Prince Valiant turns to wise Merlin.

Art and text: Hal Foster (from installment #60, April 2, 1938).
Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 1): 1937-1938 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2009).

See also the previous posts:
• Seeking Merlin's Counsel
• Old Beyond Years
• “It Is Indeed I”

Seeking Merlin's Counsel

Art and text: Hal Foster (February 1949)
Source: One of the Prince Valiant comic books my father collected in 1954-55 and which were published and distributed by Associated Newspaper Ltd. of 60-70 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.