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by Hal Foster & John Cullen Murphy
"Blood & Tears." The greatest adventure epic since Beowulf continues in
this full-color
series. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, with its thrilling continuities of a
noble knight in the days of King Arthur, began in newspapers in 1937 and
continues to this day. Fantagraphics' deluxe, full-color library editions of
Prince Valiant were initially intended to end with 2000's Volume 40, the final
volume in which Foster was the chief architect of the strip's visual look. Due
to overwhelming public demand, however, we are continuing the series, reprinting
strips written and roughed-out by Foster and finished by Foster's prodigious
assistant, John Cullen Murphy. Murphy, who had been quietly assisting Foster
for several years, actively took over the bulk of the drawing chores in 1971 and
immediately developed a fan following himself (although, for the most
part, your average newspaper reader couldn't discern a difference between
Foster and Cullen Murphy's styles). Each volume of Prince Valiant features close
to year's worth of full-page Sunday strips.
SC, 48pg, FC
