8: ‘But the watchers on the wall wait in vain for Val to reappear from the murky waters.’
‘Next Week - Beneath the Moat’
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7: ‘A troop of horsemen gallops in pursuit.’
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6: ‘And Sir Gawain thunders out to freedom!’
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5: ‘Lowering the drawbridge they swarm out to search the moat.’
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4: ‘but Val steps upon the parapet and before their astonished eyes leaps from the dizzy heights into the moat below.’
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3: ‘Val is trapped and the soldiers are closing in to make an easy capture - ‘
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2: ‘and in the dim stables saddles two horses.’
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‘Tristam seeking in hardship and adventure to forget fair Isolde and Gawain to escape King Arthur’s displeasure at his mischief.’
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2 ‘. . . . . .her jealous husband, showing little skill, but a great deal of bad temper, is exchanging nicks and bruises with the innocent Val.’
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#OTD in 1940
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, written & illustrated by Hal Foster. No. 191 - 6 October 1940
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4: ‘Val is startled by a sudden flash and roar . . . . then a calm and peaceful silence . . . . . Acidia is gone!’
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3: ‘What happened was beyond description! The tower rocked to its foundations and earthquakes were felt throughout all Asia. Belsatan made his request and paid a certain terrible price. . . . . . .’
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2: ‘So he draws the “magic circle” and the six-pointed star of Ha-Mloo, sets out the appropriate symbols, does what is necessary by way of sacrifice (we need not recount the horrors of this procedure) and, with fear in his heart, recites the long, weird incantation.’
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1: ‘Synopsis..... As Prince Valiant escorts the Lady Acidia westward, he marvels at the overpowering volume of her chatter. For she is an abandoned wife, recounting her husband’s ➡️
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#OTD in 1941
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, written & illustrated by Hal Foster. No. 243 - 5 October 1941
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‘But unseen eyes have been watching him for days. On a misty hillside a circle of Pict warriors arise quietly from the heather!’
‘Next Week - The Picts.’
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#OTD in 1942: At Hadrian’s Wall!
*Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur*, written & illustrated by Hal Foster. No. 295 - 4 October 1942
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9: ‘When the splendid concourse of knights, their ladies and retainers leave for Caerleon and the Great Tournament, the silent White Knight rides with them in second-hand armor, on a borrowed charger.’
‘Next Week - Caerleon.’
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8: ‘And paints all white his assembled arms - sign of an untried knight.’
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