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Issue Details

Issue #650
Published September 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "PRINCE VALIANT, No. 650." Code number is P.V.O.S. #650-559. Copyright 1955 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Prince Valiant" newspaper strip by Hal Foster. Second of seven Prince Valiant Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters Prince Valiant
Genre period
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Pledge to Parents"

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Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

34 page Prince Valiant story "Hostage to Treachery"

Characters Prince Valiant; Boltar; King Aguar; King Radbod; Aldgils
Synopsis When Frisian sea raiders led by King Radbod force a blockade on King Aguar, a truce is called and each King's son is given to the other as a hostage for four months. King Radbod uses his son as a spy and Valiant is forced to escape back to Thule. There he leads a sea battle against the Frisian warships.
Genre period; adventure
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
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Notes Story continues on back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Story picks up from the end of the story in Prince Valiant Four Color #567 (June 1954.)