Prince Valiant, Vol. 14: 1963-1964

Prince Valiant (Hardcover) #14

by Hal Foster, Roger Stern (Introduction)

In the first story, King Arthur sends Val to North Wales to thwart an attack by King Cidwick, while back in Camelot, Mordred plans a scandal that will break the Fellowship of the Round Table. Fortunately, a battle-weary Val finds some minor respite in the melee known as the Spring tournament, and, for the first time since coming to Camelot, our hero is crowned Grand Champion! The festivities are interrupted as an invading army of savage Saxons attack in the Battle of Baddon Hill, and the only one who can save King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot is Val’s son, Prince Arn. This volume closes with Val returning to his homeland of Thule to rest only to find a guerilla war waging
against his father, King Aguar.

Genres: Comics, Comic Strips, Adventure

112 pages, Hardcover

Published November 15, 2016

About the author

Harold Foster, also credited as Hal Foster, was a comic book artist best know for Prince Valiant.

Reviews

[Rockito · Rating 5 out of 5]

Resuming my reading of Prince Valiant after long hiatus and I'm finally done with Volumen 14 before the new year starts. This time around after many pages of "light adventure" in previous volumes, the story goes back to full scale warfare and castle intrigue.

In this Volume of Prince Valiant, Hal Foster keeps effortestly dribbling all the common cul-de-sac that a lot of comics that came AFTER usually fall on: Keep everything the same. Our main hero, good old Valiant, has to worry about his job as a knight of King Arthur's court while his son,, Prince Arn, follows his steps into also becoming a respectable warrior, and all this while War looms around the corner.

Prince Arn brings a lot of freshness to the book and it's so nice to see a character who was a small baby playing night and getting lost in the woods now being an acomplished squire and adding a new worry to his mother, the unwavering Aleta.

[Brian Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is pretty rote by now - go, find, read, savor. That Foster pulls this off for so long is nothing less than a miracle. The series is continuing its shift from Val to Arn, and that's fine as it lets him revisit some story ideas and show a like father like son structure.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm running out of superlatives for this strip.

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

a lot of fun.

[Paul Hasbrouck · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this volume, Val and family return and into a storm of action! There is War coming as King Arthur faces a massive Saxon invasion and must faced them at a place called Badon Hill. In between bloody action, there is comic , romance, and at one point Aleta is kidnapped (again).
Hal Foster is a master.

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arn's role grows as he finally takes a major role in battling the Saxons. More great work from Foster as the writing and art continue to be excellent.