VERY GOOD -Book is in Very Good condition with some shelf wear, light loss of gloss, etc but no major issues like creases, missing pages, water damage, ripped cover, etc. Book likely has a remainder mark.
Creators: Hal Foster, Dan Nadel
Publisher: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781606994078
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112 pages
On Sale Date: 3/21/2011
Dimensions: 14.4 in H | 10.5 in W | 0.6 in T | 2.4 lb Wt
Valiant meets his bride-to-be face-to-face!
With this volume, Foster reaches (by common critical consensus) the peak of his drawing and storytelling prowessa peak at which he will remains for most of the run of this glorious strip.
Almost the entirety of 1941s strips feature a single ten-month epic entitled Fights for the Singing Sword, a globetrotting adventure fueled by Valiants obsessive search for his bride-to-be Aleta throughout Northern Africa, with stops in Jerusalem, the Arabic deserts, and, inevitably, a harem which Val must infiltrate. Then finally, in The Misty Isles Valiant meets Aleta face to face but upon learning that she has had his crew killed (deservedly so, actually, but still), he flees in anger, vowing never to see her again.
Homeward Bound, Valiant continues his travels, with stops in Athens (where he meets the boisterous Viking Boltar, who will become his friend for life), North Africa, and Gaul (where Valiant liberates Gawain), before finally returning to Camelot. But his joyous return is short-lived as an alliance of Picts and Vikings threatens Britains security, and thus Valiant must journey forth with, as his ultimate destination, The Roman Wall.
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