In Anticipation of the seventy-fifth annivesary of comics' longest runningadventure strip, and to celebrate their own just-launced reprinting of thestrips' classic earliest years, Fantagraphics is proud to present an expandedversion of this hard-to-find collector's item. Compiled by award-winningFoster biographer Brian M. Kane, THE DEFINITIVE PRINCE VALIANT COMPANIONbeautifully showcases the careers of Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and GaryGianni. In addition to updating the original version's story synopsis sectionwith over 30 years of material, The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion alsocontains rare and new articles, a never-before-printed newspaper feature from1949, Foster's final interview, and interviews with John Cullen Murphy, GaryGianni and Mark Schultz, a foreward by comics historian Brian Walker, and anintroduction by Pulitzer Prize winning authore Ray Bradbury.