The story takers the reader from Valiant's young days as the son of the dethroned King of Thule to the Battle of Mount Badon and beyond. The strip started in the Tabloid section and by strip #16, the comic had gone to full page. Several other artists have taken up the strip after Hal Foster's retirement. The strip has been reprinted by King Features Syndicate into Volumes containing a year or so of the story. More recently, Fantagraphics Books reprinted Foster's entire run in fifty volumes, beginning the reprint in 1984 and completing it in 2004.