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Foster has led a life which in drama, color and excitement serves as a fitting background for his present role as creator," begins the Hal Foster bio page included in Feature Books #26.  The page then gets down to the point: Foster had already become legendary by 1941 for his stellar work on the Tarzan[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Cartoon County by Cullen Murphy is a lush artistic history of the author's father, John Cullen Murphy, the artist who drew such comic strips as Prince Valiant The book is filled with photos, reference drawings, finished comics, and paintings The book describes the life of a cartoonist of the era, as well as the[...]

Finding images for magazines 276 years old is hard!)   1866- Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri. 1937- Prince Valiant comic strip, created by Hal Foster, first appears. 1996- Rent by Jonathan Larson opens off-Broadway in New York Here is the original cast preforming at the 1996 Tony Awards[...]

And now, in 2016, the band is getting back together again in King's Quest, a four-issue limited series by Ben Acker, Heath Corson, & Dan McDaid that brings Flash Gordon, Mandrake, Prince Valiant, and two Phantoms together for a spacefaring adventure. CLIFF BIGGERS: What threat is so great that it merits the attention of all of[...]

Here we have some process art form the final issue of Dynamite's multi-part crossover miniseries King: Prince Valiant The issue is drawn by Ron Salas and colored by Luigi Anderson from a script by Nate Cosby The issue comes with a cover by Jonathan Lau. The entire universe is in peril Trillions of lives at stake[...]

We've got some of the process art from King: Prince Valiant #2 by Ron Salas and Colored by Luigi Anderson The series is part of the big crossover with the other King Features Syndicate characters: Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician, The Phantom and Jungle Jim. For more on King: Prince Valiant #2, click here. [...]

We've got Dynamite previews here for books shipping this week including the first issue of King: Prince Valiant, the last issue of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter plus new issues of Django/Zorro and John Carter: Warlord of Mars. Django / Zorro #4 Quentin Tarantino, Matt Wagner (w) Esteve Polls (a) Jae Lee, Francesco Francavilla, Marc Laming (c) Diego de la[...]

There are three Rob Liefeld covers… a Prince Valiant we've shown you before, a Jungle Jim one we haven't shown and a Mandrake the Magician one that we don't get to show… plus there is a Mike Mayhew cover for Lady Demon and a Cedric Poulat cover for Legenderry: Vampirella If any of these covers[...]

The man behind the relaunch of the Gold Key comics for Dynamite, Nate Cosby, is going to be writing the new take on Prince Valiant as part of the King Features launch next year Byron Brewer chatted with Cosby about the project and the character. BYRON BREWER: First of all, Nate, I would like to congratulate[...]

The event will bring together some of history's most famous comic strip heroes – Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, and Jungle Jim, to comic books with five miniseries that build to a grand crossover in May. Each launch issue of the King event features an interlocking cover by acclaimed artist Darwyn Cooke[...]

While Fantagraphics have put out English language Prince Valiant collections in the past, there's a new edition on the way  that offers something more Size. Marvel writer Rafa Marín has mentioned a new restored version, in colour, from Manuel Caldas' black and white restoration work with the original colours reconstructed, rather than old scanned-in newspapers. And it[...]