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As the Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII called Prince Valiant the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years".[1] 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.[2] 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").[3]

The setting is Arthurian. Valiant (Val) is a Nordic prince from Thule, located near present-day Trondheim on the Norwegian coast. Early in the story Valiant arrives at Camelot where he becomes friends with Sir Gawain and Sir Tristram. Earning the respect of King Arthur and Merlin, he becomes a Knight of the Round Table. On a Mediterranean island he meets the love of his life, Aleta, Queen of the Misty Isles, whom he later marries. He fights the Huns with his powerful Singing Sword, which, in a 1939 strip, a witch identifies with the legendary sword Flamberge,[4] a magical blade apparently created by the same enchanter who forged Arthur's Excalibur. Val travels to Africa and America and later helps his father regain his lost throne of Thule, which has been usurped by the tyrant Sligon.[5]

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I don't think I've ever taken an entire story line from it, but I've based encounters, NPCs, and NPC-reactions to PCs based on the strip. The way the small villages would react to Prince Valiant or the knights ranged from open adoration to completely oblivious to scheming in the background.snowyak wrote: Was there a cartoon of the prince Valiant you're talking about?

Finding the current Prince Valiant series in the Sunday color comics exceptionally good, by master craftsmen Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates, I looked to find the original Hal Foster stories and art, and discovered a complete set reproduced in slim hardbound volumes by Fantagraphics that began appearing in 2009, in a deluxe format true to the size of the original full-page stories. Hal Foster turned out these weekly pages steadily from 1937 to 1980, doing it all: the arresting illustrations, dramatic plots, and exceptionally terse text, with sprigs of humor, that carries it along.

Thanks for the link! I love the comics but didn't realize it was still being continued. Aleta's looks have suffered a bit I see.

Over the years I've only used some small encounters from the original Hal Foster series in my Pendragon campaign. But it's been a great inspiration.

THE PV game was designed to emulate the style of the comics and even ported over some elements of those stories (including the aforementioned croc-dragon). If anything the comics port over to the PV RPG than to Pendragon, as the comics and the PV game share a sort of "Golden Age of Hollywood" feel. That is the look and tone of the stories fits that of films of that era. Pendragon, on the other hand, has an older, more archatic tone, and some PV stories won't adapt as easily.

I agree in principal. However, Val was not a cymric knight to begin with. Rather he was a Thulian prince who fled to the Moors when their homeland was taken. He was not brought up in a strict knightly heritage, so does not think like a normal KAP character would. Yet, he did eventually get knighted.

I would be. Speaking of the comics, what are the current best reprints now? I haven't seen the Fantagraphics stuff as much online and there are now some sort of hardcover edition. I would like to restart my PV collection one day and get at least all the Hal Foster strips, but I'm not sure what edition to collect.

Oddly, Prince Valiant's violent tendencies and grim sensibilities as a youth did not cause enough concern to have Foster's comic strip censored like many are today. Valiant, after all, is not the typical fairy tale prince but a feral child who enjoys killing his foes, recounting the bloodiest victories with a grin. Despite this, Prince Valiant is indeed valiant every once in a while.

The Prince Valiant comics feature larger-than-life animals standing in as fantastical beasts in beautiful art, such as a massive tortoise, a massive saltwater crocodile, and a giant squid. In "Jungle Terrors," the characters face their greatest fear -- an enormous elephant.

In Prince Valiant, the scene where the unusual character Slith saves his beloved warrior princess Hulta by yanking her hair is a peculiar detail. In the story "Targets," Slith, who used to be a thief and now serves as Valiant's right-hand man, and Hulta escape from captivity by jumping into a turbulent river. However, Hulta cannot swim, and Slith has to rescue her from the choppy waters.

Early Prince Valiant comics featured anti-spouse humor by Hal Foster. In one story, Sir Gaiwain thanks Val for saving him from marriage. Another tale involves King Thule abandoning his family for a small island gifted to him as a consolation prize for giving up his throne.

Elliot Swan has been devouring comics since 1996. Elliot left NYC to build a homestead and create a space where he could write about his first love: sequential art. With an MA degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from The New School, Elliot tends to look at the social science side of comics but also loves to talk superhero fashion, deliciously bizarre crossovers, and creepy characters. Somehow he balances a plate full of hobbies including chicken farming, painting, writing, and collecting comic books. You can follow him on Twitter @swancomix.

The Scranton Comic Con 2022 was held Nov. 11-12 at the Hilton Scranton & Conference Center. Artist and Writer Mark Schultz of Clarks Summit,, creator of the comic book series, Xenozoic Tales" and the writer since 2004 of the "Prince Valiant" series strip in Sunday newspapers comics, attended.

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