Prince Valiant: Peril of the Round Table

About the Author

Paul S. Newman (1924-1999) is credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most prolific comic book writer (more than 4,100 stories). He began writing comics in 1947 for DC and later wrote for, among others, Avon, Fawcett, Hillman, St. John, Ziff Davis, and Marvel Comics' two predecessor companies, Timely and Atlas. For Dell/Gold Key, he wrote Turok, Son of Stone, The Lone Ranger, and the comic-book adaptation of the Beatles' animated feature Yellow Submarine. Robert "Bob" Fujitani (1921-2020) began drawing comic books in the early 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s, he became the primary ghost artist at times on such newspaper strips as Mandrake the Magician and Flash Gordon. He worked anonymously or pseudonymously in part because of World War II-era anti-Japanese prejudice. In the 1960s, he drew notable runs on such comic books as Turok, Son of Stone; Lassie; and Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. He drew seven issues of Dell's Prince Valiant in the 1950s, the first artist after Hal Foster to draw that iconic character for print. Fujitani retired from comics in 2005 and continued to paint.