With this volume, Foster reaches (by common critical consensus) the peak of his drawing and storytelling prowess--a peak at which he will remains for most of the run of this glorious strip.
Almost the entirety of 1941's strips feature a single ten-month epic entitled "Fights for the Singing Sword," a globetrotting adventure fueled by Valiant's obsessive search for his bride-to-be Aleta throughout Northern Africa, with stops in Jerusalem, the...