Out Oct. 17.
Hal Foster’s masterpiece of adventure enters its second decade as
Valiant and Aleta journey to “The New World,” a 16-month epic that
allows Foster to draw some of his spectacular native Canadian
backgrounds, and during which Aleta gives birth to Arn and acquires her
Indian nurse, Tillicum. Most of the rest of the book is taken up with
the action-packed five-month sequence “The Mad King,” during which Val,
back at Camelot, confronts the evil, fat little King Tourien of
Cornwall. This volume will be rounded off with an essay by Foster
scholar Brian M. Kane (The Prince Valiant Companion) discussing
Foster’s depiction of “Indians” as it relates to other interpretations
of the times, accompanied by various graphic goodies such as a
previously unpublished camping cartoon by Foster from circa 1915, some
of Foster’s Mountie paintings, Foster’s own map of Val’s voyage to/from
the New World, and more rare photos and art.
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