The first page is waiting
Here’s where the legend begins.
The earliest Prince Valiant Sundays are in the archive now. Meet the boy prince, the world he left behind, and the artist who drew an adventure unlike anything else on the page.
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What’s free, what’s included
Prince Valiant has been running since 1937. Here is exactly where the line falls, so nothing on this page is a surprise.
Free to read
Start with the living strip.
- The four most recent Sunday pages, free to everyone
- Every Road to 90 feature, interview, and reading guide as it publishes
- Everything on this page, including the art
With a subscription
Included with your subscription
The full story, from the beginning.
- The complete Prince Valiant archive, 1937 to today — every page older than a month
- Every era, every Sunday page, in one continuous run
- Browse the whole run by year and follow your own path
A Sunday page, ninety years in the making
For ninety years, Prince Valiant has arrived one Sunday at a time. Now you can follow the artists, characters, and adventures that made the strip an American original.
The Epic
Kingdoms, journeys, love, family, and ninety years of story, unfolding one Sunday at a time.
The Art
Costume, landscape, movement, and detail. The kind of drawing that makes you stop before you read.
The Legacy
Foster, Murphy, Gianni, Schultz, Yeates, and more, each adding a chapter while honoring what came before.
Your way in
Read this week’s page free, then unlock the full ninety years whenever you’re ready.
Follow the road
Five openings take you from the first page to the staged archive.
The first chapter opens ASAP. Four more openings follow through Prince Valiant’s 90th anniversary.
The Beginning
1937–1938 · 99 pages
Keeps the launch focused on the earliest available material and preserves the original opening logic.
The Foster Years, Part I
1939–1952 · 730 pages
Fourteen years of Foster, including the stories fans return to most.
The Foster Years, Part II
1953–1971 · 991 pages
The rest of Foster’s run, from middle chapters to the final page.
The John Cullen Murphy Era, Part I
1971–1984 · 730 pages
Begins Murphy’s long tenure in a more manageable first tranche.
The John Cullen Murphy Era, Part II
1985–1995 · 678 pages
Completes the staged archive through 1997; pages from 1996 to today are already available and continue to update.
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Now available
Begin at the beginning: Prince Valiant’s first two years
The boy prince escapes the fall of Thule and finds his way into a Britain of fens, castles, and danger. Before Camelot, before the family, there is a young man deciding what kind of hero he wants to be.
What’s new in the archive
- Start with Hal Foster’s first Sunday page, published February 13, 1937.
- Follow Val’s arrival in the fens and his first meeting with Sir Gawain.
- Read the earliest pages of the adventure in the Comics Kingdom archive.
Access Archive pages, including 1937, are included with a Comics Kingdom subscription. This week’s page is free to everyone.
Not sure where to begin?
There’s no wrong door into a story this big. Start with the first page, a favorite adventure, the family, or the art — each one opens in the archive, included with a subscription.
Free for everyone
Read this week’s Prince Valiant
The four most recent Sunday pages — this week’s and the three before it — are free to read. No subscription, no account. It’s the same strip Hal Foster started in 1937, still running.
Start here
The first page
Meet a young Val at the beginning of the legend.
For adventurers
The great journeys
Swords, voyages, kingdoms, and complete stories that reward an afternoon.
For families
Meet Val and Aleta
A family grows older in real time across generations of Sundays.
For art lovers
Come for the page
Landscapes, figures, and compositions illustrators still study.
The staged archive
The road leads through the whole story.
By February 13, 2027, the staged archive through 1997 will be complete. Pages from 1996 to today are already available and continue to update.