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PRINCE VALIANT AND THE GOLDEN PRINCESS is the fifth volume in the series by Hal Foster chronicling the life of Sir Valiant, Knight of King Arthur's Round Table. Readers who have followed the career of the young prince from eager squire to leader of armies, will thrill to his further adventures from the graphic pen of a great artist and storyteller.
Aleta, the wicked enchantress! Aleta, the cruel sorceress! Memories of Aleta and the grim scenes he had viewed in her island kingdom persistently returned to haunt Val. There was no one to tell him that he had witnessed a just punishment–swift and ghastly for an even more terrible cruelty. But if his mind harbored dark thoughts of the Queen of the Misty Isles, his heart sang with the remembrance of a lovely maid with golden tresses and a laughing voice. Even in his father's kingdom in Thule, where inner discontent seethed and outer dangers threatened, Val was goaded by the desire to return again to the Misty Isles and humble the imperious Aleta.
Mr. Foster again packs a series of episodes with people and actions that impel the reader onward, page after page. A sagacious prince calming the fears of dissatisfied subjects; a warlike defender of his homeland against the encroachments of invaders; a tenderhearted youth playing Cupid to young lovers–these are but a few of the roles in which Mr. Foster has cast Val. But it is with a vengeful Prince Valiant, slowly transformed into a lovestruck swain by the beauty and gentle whiles of a worshipful young queen, that Hal Foster's tale reaches its exciting climax.
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