EXTRACTS: Frank Bellamy's King Arthur and his Knights: The Complete Adventure © 2008 The Book Palace (116 PAGES in Full edition)

A BOOK PALACE BOOK £14.99 $24.99 ING ARTHU AND HIS KNIGHTS K R The story of King Arthur, like so many of Britain’s most legendary characters, owes more to romance and poetry than historical fact. Most of us know something of the story: that Arthur pulled a sword from a stone which, according to prophecy, made him king of England; that he was taken under the wing of a wizard called Merlin; that he had a court of knights at his round table in Camelot... This version of the tale of ‘King Arthur and his Knights’ originally appeared in Swift in 41 episodes between 30 July 1955 and 5 May 1956 and immediately followed a 41 week adaptation of Johann Wyss’ classic novel Swiss Family Robinson (9 October 1954 to 16 July 1955), which is also reproduced here. Bellamy’s work on King Arthur is a substantial improvement over his earlier work on Swiss Family Robinson . The layout of the strip meant that, rather than ten cramped frames to a page, he could now spread them over two pages, allowing a far more dramatic story to emerge. This was a swashbuckling strip in the style of swashbuckling movies and Bellamy’s single frames across the width of the small tabloid-sized pages of Swift , gave the story the look of wide-screen cinema, the comic equivalent of Cinemascope. Book Palace Books is pleased to be able bring you, for the first time, the complete story of one of England’s greatest heroes by one of England’s greatest comic artists.

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