Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant In the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a comic strip created by Hal Foster. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story for its entire history. Today it stands out for its realistic panoramas and intelligent and often humorous narrative, which appears below the pictures, without word balloons.

Reprints

• Hastings House produced 7 hardback Prince Valiant books in the 1950s, using the illustrations by Hal Foster but with the text simplified by Max Trell and for the last three books by James Flowers. This series was reprinted in Germany as Prince Eisenhert, and continued there for an additonal five volumes.
• Nostalgia Press published four hardback reprints in conjunction with King Features. To save time, the colorist on these books has colored some entire panels solid pink or solid purple.
• Prince Valiant -- an American Epic, from Manuscript Press, reprinted the first three years in three volumes, in the full original color and full page size. They also published a hardback omnibus of the three years, in a limited edition of 26 copies, ISBN #0-936414-09-X.
• Fantagraphics published a set of 50 trade paperbacks reprinting all of the strips written by Hal Foster, including those drawn by John Cullen Murphy.