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Prince Valiant Montage Sources 2

Published: November 2, 2025 1 minute 3 comments

As Prince Valiant continues its historical summarizing so we will continue to follow the sources as Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates draft Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy‘s story from 1982 into a new tale.

Prince Valiant by Mark Schultz, Thomas Yeates, and John Cullen Murphy

Following the new introductory panel one by Thomas Yeates we go back to 1982 for panel two.

Prince Valiant by Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy – February 14, 1982*

Panels three and four come from earlier in 1982.

Prince Valiant by Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy – January 31, 1982*

Panel five goes even further back for a reverse head shot of Justinian.

Prince Valiant by Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy – October 25, 1981*

Panel six and panel seven get back in sequence as they come from March 1982.

Prince Valiant by Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy – March 21, 1982*
Prince Valiant by Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy – March 28, 1982

The continuing use of past Murphy illustrations baffles me — it will continue at least into next Sunday. I can find no notice of illness or injury to Thomas Yeates, so was he that close to the dreaded deadline doom that reprints were need to give him some breathing room? Did another project take up his time?

I’m even questioning whether it is Yeates or Schultz patching these pages together?

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Comments 3

  1. I’m glad that someone is taking the time (and significant effort) to research and document what Prince Valiant’s current “authors” are doing, but I’m really not sure whether I should be happy that they are reducing the effort required to keep the strip alive, or disgusted by their artistic thievery. If these strips (and stories) had been compiled by an A.I. robot, the outcry would have been deafening. Does having a human do the image mining make that much of a difference? The bottom line is that the owners of the copyrights can do whatever they want, readers have only the choice to read, or not to read.

    1. I think it’s fair game. It’s like a soap opera using actual footage from a storyline 40+ years back as flashback footage, even though a completely different team of writers and directors, etc, are now at the show. With a long running legacy strip like Valiant, I think it’s fair game to use the actual art from the past when referencing a previous storyline despite having a different creative team. If they were pulling the art from a *different* comic, that would be, well, different.

  2. That second panel was flipped for the flashback.

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