(September 1955)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "PRINCE VALIANT, No. 650." Code number is P.V.O.S. #650-559. Copyright 1955 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Prince Valiant" newspaper strip by Hal Foster. Second of seven Prince Valiant Four Color issues.
A Pledge to Parents
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Hostage to Treachery
Prince Valiant / comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks:
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- period; adventure
- Characters:
- Prince Valiant; Boltar; King Aguar; King Radbod; Aldgils
- Synopsis:
- When Frisian sea raiders led by King Radbod force a blockade on King Aguar, a truce is called and each King's son is given to the other as a hostage for four months. King Radbod uses his son as a spy and Valiant is forced to escape back to Thule. There he leads a sea battle against the Frisian warships.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Story picks up from the end of the story in Prince Valiant Four Color #567 (June 1954.)
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Alan Hutchinson
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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