- Paperback
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (July 17 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1560970596
- ISBN-13: 978-1560970590
- Product Dimensions: 33.3 x 24.4 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,915,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Synopsis: PRINCE VALIANT OPENS HIS EYES SLEEPILY, SHOULD HE GO BACK TO SLEEP OR....SUDDENLY HE LEADS FROM HIS BED, TREMBLING WITH EXCITEMENT, FOR HE HAS JUST REMEMBERED, THIS IS A BIRTHDAY! Read the first page
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Synopsis: PRINCE VALIANT OPENS HIS EYES SLEEPILY, SHOULD HE GO BACK TO SLEEP OR....SUDDENLY HE LEADS FROM HIS BED, TREMBLING WITH EXCITEMENT, FOR HE HAS JUST REMEMBERED, THIS IS A BIRTHDAY! Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Probably the best "comic" ever (in black and white mind).,
This review is from: Prince Valiant Vol. 13: The Sun Goddess (Paperback)
I have the chance to have the complete works of Harold Foster, one of the greatest masters of all time (at least if we are talking "comic" strips...), sadly enough I have always found the colored versions inferior to the original drawings in black and white.The Best Saga in Historic Category of all time. Better then Alex Raymond and Lyman Young wich I also love for the energy and "movement" of the images. I would like to see in print a complete work of Harold Foster in black&white. Anyhow a CLASSIC on his Own.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The best comic I ever read,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prince Valiant Vol. 13: The Sun Goddess (Paperback)
Prince Valiant series is the best comic series I have read. The trace is beautiful, all pictures full of details. It is also a thorough research in history, armour, middle age's war tatics, etc. But beyond this we have the story: clever, smart, funny. In this particular book, Hal Foster uses Viking's history link with ancient America's history to create another beautiful story of our so human hero.
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Hal Foster's classic Sunday comic strip,
By Paul C. Gaertner III "Model builder" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prince Valiant Vol. 13: The Sun Goddess (Paperback)
Hal Foster's "Prince Valiant" is a still-running Sunday comic strip that Foster began in 1937. Prince Valiant is a fictitious knight of King Arthur's mythic Round Table. Valiant's story starts with his family's exile from Scandinavia to Britain when he is a young boy, and in seventy-three years of Sunday comics, chronicles approximately thirty years of his lifetime. Along the way he experiences a breath-taking array of amazing adventures, all over England, Europe, Africa, and even North America. At the zenith of Foster's efforts, in the 1940s and 1950s, the strip was a perfect blend of adventure, intrigue, romance, chaste sexuality and dry humor. Foster was justifiably famous for his meticulous research and superb art. In later years the strip became more formulaic, and with the shrinking Sunday pages, and after Foster retired in 1980, the strip became a pale shadow of its former brilliance. In the mid 1980s, Fantagraphics Books undertook to reprint the first 2,271 pages of the strip, ultimately in 50 volumes, of which this volume 13 is typical. Fantagraphics commissioned artists to subtly re-color the original black line-work, resulting in a much richer product than the newsprint three color process. Occasionally, Fantagraphics had to use poor reproductions of the black line-work, but even at that it's a marvelous collection. Any fan of Prince Valiant will thoroughly enjoy this amazing reprint series. Highly recommended.
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