- Almost the entirety of 1941's strips, collected in Prince Valiant
Volume 3: 1941-1942, featuring a single ten-month epic entitled "Fights for
the Singing Sword." This globetrotting adventure is fueled by Valiant's
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 Britain's security, and thus Valiant must journey forth with, as his
ultimate destination, "The Roman Wall."
"Prince Valiant" set a new standard for the serial drama when it debuted in 1937. Now Foster's legendary medieval epic is collected in a sumptuous new hardcover series, with each volume containing a full year's worth of strips in an oversized format showcasing the strip's spectacular, fully restored color artwork.