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| rdfs:comment | - The story takers the reader from Valiant's young days as the son of the dethroned King of Thule to the Battle of Mount Badon and beyond. The strip started in the Tabloid section and by strip #16, the comic had gone to full page. Several other artists have taken up the strip after Hal Foster's retirement. The strip has been reprinted by King Features Syndicate into Volumes containing a year or so of the story. More recently, Fantagraphics Books reprinted Foster's entire run in fifty volumes, beginning the reprint in 1984 and completing it in 2004.
- Prince Valiant, or Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. Told in a continuous storyline, the strip now totals more then 3700 Sunday strips, and it currently runs in more then 300 American newspapers. While working on the Tarzan comic, Foster developed the idea for Prince Valiant, creating a non-traditional strip which does not employ word balloons, but rather panels which narrate the story.
- Edward, the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years." Generally regarded by comics historians as one of the most impressive visual creations ever syndicated, the strip is noted for its realistically rendered panoramas and the intelligent, sometimes humorous, narrative. The format does not employ word balloons. Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from various time periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages, with a few brief scenes from modern times (commenting on the "manuscript").
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| Genre | - Epic historical adventure
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| Author | - Hal Foster , John Cullen Murphy, Cullen Murphy, Mairead Murphy, Gray Morrow, Wally Wood, Gary Gianni, Mark Schultz, Thomas Yeates
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| abstract | - The story takers the reader from Valiant's young days as the son of the dethroned King of Thule to the Battle of Mount Badon and beyond. The strip started in the Tabloid section and by strip #16, the comic had gone to full page. Several other artists have taken up the strip after Hal Foster's retirement. The strip has been reprinted by King Features Syndicate into Volumes containing a year or so of the story. More recently, Fantagraphics Books reprinted Foster's entire run in fifty volumes, beginning the reprint in 1984 and completing it in 2004.
- Edward, the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years." Generally regarded by comics historians as one of the most impressive visual creations ever syndicated, the strip is noted for its realistically rendered panoramas and the intelligent, sometimes humorous, narrative. The format does not employ word balloons. Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from various time periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages, with a few brief scenes from modern times (commenting on the "manuscript"). While drawing the Tarzan comic strip, Foster wanted to do his own original newspaper feature, and he began work on a strip he called Derek, Son of Thane, later changing the title to Prince Arn. King Features manager Joseph Connelly eventually renamed it Prince Valiant. In 1936, after extensive research, Foster pitched his concept to William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted to distribute a strip by Foster. Hearst was so impressed that he gave Foster ownership of the strip. Prince Valiant began in full-color tabloid sections on Saturday February 13, 1937 . The first full page was strip #16, which appeared in the Sunday New Orleans Times Picayune. The internal dating changed from Saturday to Sunday with strip #66 (May 15, 1938). The full-page strip continued until 1971 when strip #1788 was not offered in full-page format—it was the last strip Foster drew. The strip continues today by other artists in a half page format.
- Prince Valiant, or Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. Told in a continuous storyline, the strip now totals more then 3700 Sunday strips, and it currently runs in more then 300 American newspapers. While working on the Tarzan comic, Foster developed the idea for Prince Valiant, creating a non-traditional strip which does not employ word balloons, but rather panels which narrate the story. The strip was referenced in the Muppet Babies episode "Comic Capers," when Baby Fozzie turns Baby Scooter into the title character during a computer mishap.
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