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Prince Valiant, Vol. 1: 1937-1938

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Nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award: The most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time in spite of everything returns in its definitive edition, the first to boast superb testored artwork that captures every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster’s original masterpiece.

Universally acclaimed as the most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time, Prince Valiant ran for 35 years under the virtuoso pen of its writer, Hal Foster. (Such used to be its popularity that today, decades after Foster’s death, it continues to run under different hands.)

The giant Sunday-funnies pages (Valiant ran only on Sundays) gave Foster a huge canvas upon which he used to be ready to limn epic swordfights, stunning scenes of pomp and pageantry, and one of the most most beautiful human beings―female and male―ever to appear in comics. And he matched his nonpareil visual sense with the narrative instincts of a born storyteller, propelling his daring young hero from one crisis to another with barely a panel to catch one’s breath.

Prince Valiant has in the past been widely to be had only in re-colored, reasonably degraded editions (now out of print and fetching collectors’ prices). Thanks to advances in production technology and newly to be had original proof sheets, this new series from the industry leader in quality strip classics is the first to feature superb restored artwork that captures every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster’s original masterpiece. Comic strip aficionados will be ecstatic, and younger readers who enjoy a classic adventure yarn will be bowled over.

Volume One is rounded out with a rare, in-depth classic Foster interview in the past to be had only in a long out-of-print issue of The Comics Journal, in addition to an informative Afterword detailing the production and restoration of this edition.

Nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Best Archival Collection/Project: Strips). 120 color illustrations

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