PRINCE VALIANT: THE MARK OF CAIN, Vol. 45, Hal Foster, PB, Fantagraphics, 2002

Description: PRINCE VALIANT: THE MARK OF CAIN, Vol. 45, Hal Foster, PB, Fantagraphics, 2002 Softcover book in very good, very clean condition. Very clean text. $4.75 domestic shipping. International shipping at cost. Please email with any questions. This is a Prince Valiant comic book, volume 45, titled "The Mark of Cain." It features the works of Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy, with cover art by Jesper Ejsing, Hal Foster, Jan Kjær, and John Cullen Murphy. The comic is a reprint from the modern age era (1992-now) and is published by Fantagraphics Books. The book is a trade paperback format, with dimensions of 13.275 inches in height and 8.875 inches in width. It is written in English and is part of the Prince Valiant series. The comic is illustrated and falls under the adventure and historical genres. Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, often simply called Prince Valiant, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 4000 Sunday strips. The strip appears weekly in more than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, King Features Syndicate. As the Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII called Prince Valiant the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years".[1] Generally regarded by comics historians as one of the most impressive visual creations ever syndicated, the strip is noted for its realistically rendered panoramas and the intelligent, sometimes humorous, narrative.[2] The format does not employ word balloons. Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from various time periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages, with a few brief scenes from modern times (commenting on the "manuscript").[3] While drawing the Tarzan comic strip, Foster wanted to do his own original newspaper feature, and he began work on a strip he called Derek, Son of Thane, later changing the title to Prince Arn. King Features manager Joseph Connolly eventually renamed it Prince Valiant. In 1936, after extensive research, Foster pitched his concept to William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted to distribute a strip by Foster. Hearst was so impressed that he gave Foster ownership of the strip.[1] Prince Valiant began in full-color tabloid sections on Saturday February 13, 1937. The first full page was strip #16, which appeared in the Sunday New Orleans Times Picayune. The internal dating changed from Saturday to Sunday with strip #66 (May 15, 1938). The full-page strip continued until 1971, when strip #1788 was not offered in full-page format—it was the last strip Foster drew. The strip continues today by other artists in a half-page format.[3]

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