Prince Valiant

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But I think those were just because he was making fun of that Prince Valiant haircut.

He's making fun of the owner?

Yeah.

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.

Yeah.

And how he was helping write Prince Valiant and how all the people, all the families in Connecticut, they were all cartoonists.

So he gets to school and discovers, huh, everybody else's dads are taking the train to go somewhere.

Our dads are playing golf at one o'clock.

The magenta marker wouldn't be magenta.

It would have been red, like warm red, because that's what it looks like on Prince Valiant, which is what it was a parody of.

So that's...

If you were asking me to say, can I authenticate this? It's like, no, I can't authenticate this.

It's a word we've largely lost.

It used to be that one of the most popular comic strips in America was Prince Valiant, which most of you have probably never heard of before.

But one of the things you're going to notice as we go through this book is that there is so much emphasis on recultivating virtue, and the virtue of courage is one of those virtues that we're going to hear about.

So we're going to be talking a little bit more about that tonight.

To understand this enterprise, you should know that a 1940 Superman comic book now goes for $110.

And if that's true, the fans will surely jump at an original Prince Valiant strip.

The lesson is keep everything that you've got in the attic.

I threw away the Superman comics, and now I'm Robert Potts, News Center 4.

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.

Yeah.

You didn't even have to be Prince Valiant charging in on your white steed.

You just had to tell them, "That's fucking gross.

I'm calling the cops.