Hal Foster

One copy sold for $6.50 U.S., What else is surprising here? Extremity Signature Edition, 360 US.

Hal Foster's Prince Viant Phenographic Studio Edition, one copy, 365.

Three copies of Frank Miller's Sin City of the Heart, Goodbye, Curious Collection, averaging $237.

So that's just the regular version.

But then there's some of the comic book art.

You had Hal Foster, who did the Prince Valiant.

The artwork is massive.

There was an Al Williamson, who people might know from The Empire Strikes Back.

This is the first time sci-fi is introduced into comics.

Right afterwards, Hal Foster adapts Tarzan and begins to introduce life drawing, and That life drawing and his ability to be a draftsman accelerates the quality of work across the board, opening it up for a lot of other cartoonists.

That is when we first knock on the door of the comic book world.

George D.T. Delacorte Jr.'s Dell Comics creates a book, a proto-comic called The Funnies, and it's basically taking comic strips and putting them into a book, and that's all it is.

And that really had an impact on me with the music.

But I came across the work of Harold Foster and his Prince Valiant Sunday pages

with

absolutely stunning artwork.

That one is my Prince Valiant.

Hal Foster, Robin Hood world.

I wanted all of those toys on the same table.

And the energy everyone is killing for?

There's something going on.

Wait, this reminds me," and what it reminded me of then, what I also loved as a kid, was Hal Foster's Prince Valiant and the how they recalled tapestries.

And, you know, as, what was it? A couple weeks ago in The New York Times there was that article on the Bayeux Tapestry and they used the sort of story map feature of a tool, how to read and what the story is.

That's what struck me in grad school, that there is a kinship.