Prince Valiant Vol. 24: 1983-1984 Hardcover – November 16, 2021 by Hal Foster et al.

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Author: Foster Hal

Package Dimensions: 20x360x1110

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 16-11-2021

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There’s Merlin, Mordred, Maeve, Monsters, and Magic in this collection of the beloved Arthurian newspaper strip! In Volume 24 (1983-1984), a comedy of mistaken identities culminates in Val playing a game of life-or-death using live people as chess pieces. Arn’s job as Arthur’s Keeper of Parks involves defending against invading Saxons. Merlin gives Val a magic ring and a dire message for Arn. With all the other knights of the round table away from Camelot on a rescue mission, Val joins a hunt for a cattle-killing man-beast. Finding his opening, arch-enemy Mordred launches an attack on the defenseless kingdom, sending Arthur the severed leg of the mayor of each conquered town. Arn’s love for Maeve takes a turn toward heartbreak and betrayal when the identity of her father is revealed.
Hal Foster’s
Prince Valiant is the most illustrious heroic saga ever written and drawn for the Sunday newspapers. In full, glorious, restored color, this is the finest reproduction of this enthralling, romantic adventure serial ever published.
Full color

About the Author

Hal Foster (1892-1982) created
Prince Valiant in 1937. Though remaining involved with the strip until his death in 1982, Foster handed the bulk of the scripting and art chores over to his longtime assistant, John Cullen Murphy, in 1971.

John Cullen Murphy, a six-time recipient of the National Cartoonists Society’s “Best Story Strip” for his work on
Prince Valiant, continues to draw the strip from his home in Connecticut, while his son, Cullen Murphy, writes the strip in between serving as the Managing Editor for
The Atlantic.

Cullen Murphy served as managing editor for
The Atlantic from 1985–2006 and is currently an editor at large for
Vanity Fair. Beginning in the 1970s, Murphy collaborated with his father, John Cullen Murphy, on the
Prince Valiant comic strip.