Valor (EC Comics)

Not to be confused with Lar Gand.

Valor
Al Williamson cover, issue #2
Publication information
Publisher	EC Comics
Schedule	Bimonthly
Format	Anthology
Publication date	March/April 1955 - November/December 1955
No. of issues	Five
Creative team
Created by	William Gaines Al Feldstein

Valor was a comic book published by EC Comics in 1955 as a title in its New Direction line.^[1] The bi-monthly comic was published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. It lasted a total of five issues before being cancelled, along with EC's other New Direction comics.

Valor was dedicated to tales of action and adventure in various period settings, including Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Crusades, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era. It was similar in vein to the historical stories that previously appeared in EC's Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat from 1950 through 1954.

Artists included Reed Crandall, George Evans, Gardner Fox, Graham Ingels, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson and Wally Wood.

Valor was reprinted as part of publisher Russ Cochran's Complete EC Library in 1988. Between October 1998 and February 1999, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing) reprinted all five individual issues. This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a single softcover EC Annual. Dark Horse reprinted Valor as part of the EC Archives series in 2017.

Issue guide

#	Date	Cover Artist	Story	Story Artist
1	March/April 1955	Wally Wood	The Arena	Al Williamson and Angelo Torres
			Strategy	Bernard Krigstein
			Revolution	Graham Ingels
			The Return of King Arthur	Wally Wood
2	May/June 1955	Al Williamson	The Champion	Al Williamson
			Poetic Justice	Bernard Krigstein
			The Colonel's Son	Graham Ingels
			The King's Service	Wally Wood
3	July/Aug 1955	Joe Orlando	The Cloak of Command	Al Williamson
			Gentle As A Whisper	Joe Orlando
			The Pyramid	Bernard Krigstein
			Debt of Honor	Reed Crandall
4	Sept/Oct 1955	Wally Wood	Gratitude	Joe Orlando
			The Know-Nothing	Bernard Krigstein
			The Taste of Freedom	Graham Ingels
			A Knight's Dream	Reed Crandall
5	Nov/Dec 1955	Wally Wood	Dangerous Animal	Wally Wood
			Important Man	Graham Ingels
			Treasure from Xanadu	Bernard Krigstein
			Day of Reckoning	Al Williamson and George Evans

References

1. Brislin, Tom (Autumn 1995). "EXTRA! the comic book journalist survives the censors of 1955". Journalism History. 21: 123–130 – via EBSCOHost.