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Barry Windsor-Smith “Axus the Great” Pathways to Fantasy #1 (1984) Source (21MP)

Gorgeous work and source is large, enjoy!

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Prince Valiant by Hal Foster from June 19, 1938.

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Gees, Robin, get out of the way!

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The Slaying of Sir Lamorak by N.C. Wyeth

We must picture Arthur to ourselves as a being of light. He and his knights are guardians of what is noble and just…. There was a time when the guardianship of human rights was held only in the pure hands of the priest-kings. Wherever Arthur and his knights appeared, wherever the Round Table was set up, there the sinister forms who hate the light were compelled to withdraw from their presence. Arthur and his sun-radiant knights brought law and order to every place as a reflection of the heavenly ordering of the stars. These traditions remained alive in England up to the time of Queen Elizabeth. From those Knights of the Sword whose strokes had smitten the countries of Europe with the glancing light of sunlike law and order, there came all that still lives on as the life of social rights in Britain. Then the sword was put aside and only the red sash from which the sword had once hung remained as representative of the rights of man.

One must not imagine King Arthur as merely a single and definite historical personality. In a certain sense ‘Arthur’ signifies the name of an order or rank; there have been many ‘Arthurs’ in the progress of time, just as there have also been many ‘Parzifals.’ For the name Perceval (or Parzifal) was borne by the seekers on a particular quest. —W.J. Stein, The Death of Merlin (p.119-20)

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Endpapers in “Legends of Charlemagne” by Thomas Bulfinch. NY: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1924. Art by N.C. Wyeth.

Left side of drawing.

right side of drawing.

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Black Rider

- Lily Seika Jones

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Dominik Mayer

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Oak Sentinel

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Astounding Science Fiction, May 1956. Cover art by Van Dongen for “The Missionaries” by Everett B. Cole.

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Modern Knights Sue Pope Francis Seeking Restoration After Over 700 Years

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Ad for “Whitman’s Prestige Chocolates” in “The Saturday Evening Post,” February 27, 1932. Artwork by Peter Hurd.

Because what says prestige chocolates better than a knight?