PRINCE VALIANT Sunday 3343 by JOHN CULLEN MURPHY 3/4/2001

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Title:	PRINCE VALIANT Sunday 3343 by JOHN CULLEN MURPHY 3/4/2001
Artist:	John Cullen Murphy ()
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	6/25/2009
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Original PRINCE VALIANT Sunday comic strip by JOHN CULLEN MURPHY (1919-2004), 3/4/01Number 3343 (paper size of three panels put together: 14 1/2" x 20") Pen and ink. Signed. Original drawing paper is solid and untorn.

(From Wikipedia) Murphy attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where his family lived until 1929, when they moved to New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City. He aspired to be a baseball player and was playing baseball when a New Rochelle neighbor, Norman Rockwell, asked the 15-year-old if he would like to model for a painting. Rockwell's Starstruck, showing a forlorn Murphy gazing at pictures of movie starlets, was the September 22, 1934 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell became one of Murphy's mentors. Murphy brought over his artwork, and Rockwell would critique it on a regular basis. This practice ended with the start pf World War II.

Murphy entered the Army in 1940, joining the 7th Regiment. He became an anti-aircraft officer, rising to the rank of major. He spent several years in the Pacific, beginning in Australia and ending in Tokyo. He was an aide to General Richard Marquat, who was on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. During the war, Murphy continued to illustrate, sending work to the Chicago Tribune and painting numerous portraits of military figures.

On his return to the U.S. in 1946, he resumed his art career, illustrating for magazines, including Columbia, Liberty and Sport. In 1950, writer Elliot Caplin (brother of cartoonist Al Capp) suggested that Murphy illustrate a boxing comic strip he had in mind, Big Ben Bolt. Murphy was the artist of Big Ben Bolt from 1950 to 1978.

In 1970, he replaced Prince Valiant's creator, Hal Foster, although Foster offered guidance until his death in 1982. Murphy continued to draw Valiant with his son, Cullen Murphy, scripting and his daughter doing the lettering and coloring. He retired in March 2004, turning the strip over to his chosen successor, illustrator Gary Gianni.

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