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INTRODUCING: PRINCE VALIANT
I n 1936, the Canadian-born cartoonist

Harold Rudolf Hal Foster (1892-1982) had
been working away on the newspaper-strip ver-
turning the writing over to
Murphys son Cullen.
More than three decades
later, new episodes of Prince
Valiant continue to appear, now
sion of Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan for United under the stewardship of Mark
Feature Syndicate for close to half a decade, in Schultz (writer) and Thomas
Yeates (artist) one of the few
the process cementing his position as one of the classic adventure strips that
greatest adventure cartoonists of all time. continues to thrill newspaper
readers every week around the
But Foster had become he would encounter his bride- world.
tired of working on an adapta- to-be, Aleta), and even, a mil- Beginning in 2009,
tion, with its attendant limita- lennium before Christopher Fantagraphics Books launched
tions (both creative and finan- Columbus, the New World. the project of reprinting every
cial); he decided to emancipate He would have many exciting single Prince Valiant strip written
himself by responding to rival adventures and meet count- and drawn by Foster, scanned
publisher William Randolph less colorful friends and ad- from the finest resources
Hearsts entreaties to come versaries and eventually, his available (Fosters own person-
work for him, creating a brand children would begin going off al collection of proof sheets)
new strip called Prince Valiant in on their own exploits, creating and presented with state-of-
the Days of King Arthur. one of the great multi-gener- the-art digital restoration.
Valiant is a 5th-century ational sagas of adventure fic- The sixth volume (covering
Nordic prince from Thule tion, illustrated or not. 1947 and 1948) appeared ear-
whose friendship with the Foster would write and draw lier this year, and the seventh
Arthurian knights Sir Gawain Prince Valiant every week for 34 (which includes the two stories
and Sir Tristram earns him years, until advancing arthritis collected herein) will be pub-
entry into King Arthurs in- forced him to pass the torch lished later this summer.
ner circle, and membership as at least the illustrative torch We hope new readers will
a Knight of the Round Table. to other hands. Beginning be intrigued by their intro-
From that point on, Valiant in 1971, John Cullen Murphy duction to this great classic,
would roam the world, start- took over the drawing of the and Valiant fans will enjoy this
ing off from his adopted home strip (based on Fosters scripts, sneak peek at our upcoming
of Camelot and his birthplace layouts, and pencils), gradu- volume.
of Thule, visiting virtually all ally assuming a greater share
of Europe, some of Africa, the of the art. In 1980, Foster re- The Publishers
Mediterranean Islands (where tired from the strip entirely,
prince valiant: free comic book day special edition contains two sequences from 1950: The Homecoming (January-
March) and The Challenge (March-May). In order to fit within the reduced comic-book format and to eliminate certain narrative re-
dundancies created by the original weekly serialization, certain panels have been modified, omitted, or moved around. The full, original
versions will of course be appearing in the forthcoming Prince Valiant Vol. 7: 1949-1950. prince valiant: free comic book day
special edition is copyright 2013 King Features Syndicate. All contents copyright 2013 King Features Syndicate. All rights
reserved. You must obtain the publishers permission to reproduce any portion of this publication. Fantagraphics Books, 7563 Lake City
Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. Publishers: Gary Groth and Kim Thompson. Associate Publisher: Eric Reynolds. Editor: Kim Thompson.
Production: Paul Baresh. Special thanks to the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library for providing the
scans for the strips reprinted in this comic, reproduced from original syndicate proofs. First Printing: April 2013. Printed in Canada.
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