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ARN (ahrn)
Prince
Valiant's first son
Common
clues: Prince
Valiant's son; Hal Foster prince; Valiant son; Aleta's son; Royal
son of the comics; Prince Valiant's eldest
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
3 times a year
Prince
Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is
a long-run comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an
epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire
history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than
3700 Sunday strips. Currently, the strip appears weekly in more
than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, King
Features Syndicate.
Edward,
the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the "greatest
contribution to English literature in the past hundred years."
Generally regarded by comics historians as one of the most
impressive visual creations ever syndicated, the strip is noted
for its realistically rendered panoramas and the intelligent,
sometimes humorous, narrative. The format does not employ word
balloons. Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned
at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from
various time periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High
Middle Ages, with a few brief scenes from modern times
(commenting on the "manuscript").
In
the strip dated August 31, 1947, Prince Arn, [Valiant and
Aleta's] first son, was born in America, and Val celebrated by
getting drunk. The infant Prince Arn was named after Val’s
youthful friend, Prince Arn of Ord. Val and Aleta's other
children are the twins, Karen and Valeta (born 1951), Galan
(1962) and Nathan (1979). Agents of the Byzantine Emperor
Justinian abducted Nathan shortly after his birth, and he was
eventually rescued by Arn. Earlier, Arn led an expedition to
America in 1964. Val became a grandfather when Arn and his wife,
Maeve, daughter of the traitorous Mordred, gave birth to Ingrid
in 1987.
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