Prince Valiant and the Golden Princess - Hal Foster - Hardcover - 1975

DIMENSIONS:   26cm x 17cm x 1.5cm

WEIGHT:     515g

PAGES:     128 pages

CONDITION:   Good with slight wear to the cover, corners and spine.

SYNOPSIS:   " Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, with its thrilling continuities of a fictitious knight in the court of King Arthur, set a new standard for the serial drama when it debuted in 1937. Foster's noble character of royal descent was even beloved by genuine royalty: The Duke of Windsor, who reigned as King Edward III until his abdication in 1936, once described the strip as "the greatest contribution to English literature in the past 100 years."

There had been continuity strips, and even strong elements of adventure, before Hal Foster started drawing comic strips, but approximately 35 years after the birth of the artform, it was Foster who introduced illustrative techniques -- and the sensibilities and standards of such illustrative greats as Howard Pyle -- to the comics page. Realistic depictions and sophisticated compositions had been curiously absent before him. He is still considered, 20 years after his death, to be comics' supreme classicist, and the strip continues to live on in over 100 newspapers across America.  "  

This is part five of seven and is in a black and white format.  It is in the form of a story with pictures on each page and not in the comic strip format.  This is a rare and collectable item.