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COMIC STRIP LAUNCHED ON THIS DATE IN 1937
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a
long-run comic strip created by Hal Foster (Shown below) in 1937. It’s an
epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history,
and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 3700 Sunday
strips. Currently, the strip, according to its distributor King Features
Syndicate, appears weekly in more than 300 newspapers including,
The Sunday Oregonian.
Illustrator Hal Foster, creator of the award-winning Prince Valiant comic
Among the first Prince Valiant strips in 1937
IT’S KIM NOVAK’S BIRTHDAY ~ 78 TODAY
Kim Novak is best known for her performance in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller Vertigo. She retired from acting in 1991 and has since become an accomplished artist of oil paintings. She lives with her Veterinarian husband on a ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon, where they raise livestock.
A VIEW FROM PORTLAND’S PAST ~ 1962
East end of the Morrison Bridge, looking north
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