Prince Valiant Vol. 3: 1941-1942

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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. 112 pages of color comics