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Issue Details

Issue #699
Published April 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "PRINCE VALIANT, No. 699." Code number is P.V.O.S. #699-564. Copyright 1956 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details - "The Secret of the Flames"

Characters Prince Valiant
Genre period; adventure
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover title does not match interior story title.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Another Outstanding Award for Dell Comics"

Characters George T. Delacorte, Jr. (photo); Major General Lucas V. Beau, USAF (photo); Col. Draper F. Henry, USAF (photo); Hon. John I. Lerom, Ast. Sec. USAF (photo); Col. C. Short, USAF (photo)
Synopsis Promo for Dell Comics featuring citation given Dell Publishing by the Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, for promoting interest in aviation and flying.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo of Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. and U.S. Air Force personell. Promo includes Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

34 page Prince Valiant story "Prince Valiant and The Quest For Greek Fire"

Characters Prince Valiant; King Aguar; Boltar; Leonidas
Synopsis When Thule is threatened by invading Jutes, Prince Valiant and Boltar travel to Rome to find Leonidas, a Greek refugee who knows the secret weapon of liquid flames, called "Greek Fire."
Genre period; adventure
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" appears in the second tier of panels on the back cover, in the middle of the story. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007) The French magazine Back Up n° 14 credits the pencils to John Buscema (GCD Error List, 29 March 2009), but according to the John Buscema checklist compiled by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot this story is not by Buscema.