Four Color #719 - Prince Valiant [Prince Valiant pin-up back cover]
(August 1956)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1956
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
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Issue Notes

Indicia title is "PRINCE VALIANT, No. 719." Code number is PV O.S. #719-568. Copyright 1956 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Fourth of seven Prince Valiant Four Colors. Based on the Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper strip by Hal Foster.
This issue has variants:

The Peril of the Round Table (Table of Contents)

Prince Valiant / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks
Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors
Sam Savitt (painting)
Letters
typeset
Genre
historical; adventure
Characters
Prince Valiant
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credit from Sam Savitt index by Leo Pando in Illustration Magazine #4 (2002).

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[Map of Story Settings] (Table of Contents: 1)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Letters
typeset
Synopsis
A map of the Shetland Islands with the story settings marked.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Hand-drawn map with parts of two interior panels reprinted.

Peril of the Round Table (Table of Contents: 2)

Prince Valiant / comic story / 33 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
historical; adventure
Characters
Prince Valiant; Boltar; King Arthur; Sir Gawain; Lancelot; Tristram
Synopsis
Urgen, King of Shetland, captures King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table when they sail to a tournament in Thule. Sir Gawain escapes overboard and clings to wreckage until rescued by a ship manned by Prince Valiant and Boltar. The three go to the Shetland Islands to rescue the Knights.

Indexer Notes

Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is the first panel of the inside back cover, in the middle of the story. Story contains two full-page panels in the middle. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Prince Valiant (Table of Contents: 3)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Genre
historical
Characters
Prince Valiant
Synopsis
Prince Valiant full-figure drawing, with stylized Viking longboat in background.

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Peril of the Round Table
    Prince Valiant
  2. 1. [Map of Story Settings]
  3. 2. Peril of the Round Table
    Prince Valiant
  4. 3. Prince Valiant
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  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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