A Minnesota Woody In King Arthur's Court!
Here it is in glorious black and white. Wood was able to mimic Foster's style quite effectively here, thereby hiding his own distinctive flourishes. While not a ghost the new artist was expected to maintain the look and feel of the strip and Wood does a stellar job here. Neither Morrow nor Wood got the gig, which went to John Cullen Murphy.
Wood of course was no stranger to Prince Valiant in print, having done the definitive spoof of the comic for MAD magazine many years before in a little effort called "Prince Violent". Read the full effort here.
He'd turn his hand to spoofing the strip again in the Marvel Mini-Comic Prince Violet. But he wasn't done yet.
Some years later for his porn comic Gang Bang #2 Wood once again visited Camelot and gave Foster's Prince a distinctively naughty turn in "Prince Violate". Notice he Wood makes specific use of the very designs used some years before in his try-out for the official strip itself. In fact those are the best panels in this effort which produced at the end of Wood's career sadly show his diminished talents. It's a raunchy and sometimes funny spoof featuring an abundance of fellatio, but not prime Wood sadly. To see more check it out here, but make sure to clear away the kiddies.
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