WILL UE IN THE LOCALITY TO Atoibi iuu. . ,. . OttfStarB' TO AVOID DOING BATTLE WITH THE WHOLE BAND, PRINCE VALIANT CHALLENGES THEIR LEADER, A MAN WHOSE GREAT. STRENGTH WOULD MAK6 HIM MIGHTy IN THE PRESS OF BATTLE. BUT THIS IS SINGLE COMBAT. : 'THE BULLFROG' AIMS A TERRIBLE BLOW THAT NO SHIELD COULD WITH STAND..... IF IT LANDED. NOTONLV IS IT SMOTHERED BEFORE IT BEGINS.. i hi ijl vwj V"-" . i !;''"" BUT THE SAME M6TIONOF THE' SHIELD BREAKS HIS NOSE. INSTINC- .TIVELV HE RAISES HIS OWN. SHIELD, ONLV TO PEEL THE SEARING PAIN OF A SLASH ACROSS THE SHINS.".. BRUTE STRF.NGT H IS OF l0 'AVAIL . CONFUSED BY HIS OWN WAGE.HE FALLS VICTIM TO SIMPLE TRICKS. Then he sees an opening. STILL DAZED, HE does JUST WHAT IS EXPECTED I THE BULLFROG SEES THE FLASH OF A SWORD, SEES HIS WEAPON FLY INTO THE AIR. BUT DEATH DOES NOT COME TO HIM. INSTEAD HIS TERRIBLE OPPO NENT CALMLY ORDERS HIM TO TAKE ANOTHER WEAPON. r , ' COLD FEAR COMES SLOWLV TO THE REARMED, BUT LESS CONFIDENT, HE STROKE VAL HAS BEEN WAIT- BULLFROG HIS SILENT OPPONENT RUSHES VAL . ONE TRICK HE HAS LEFT... ING FOR DIEVRE A SEVERED 0055 INTEND TO KILL HIM BUT TO SSNTSSgE HEAb SWNS ANDONCE BREAK HIS WILL I IN FRONT OF HIS AVEN! CHANGES TO THE UNDERHAND SWING... , AORE VAL STEPS BACK. NETV.CEK-ThC TtSf ,.,Wn.'" - I IQ45 S-17'57 ' '