Editing Prince Valiant (section)

==Cultural references==
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* The "Prince Valiant" haircut, a variant of the [[Pageboy#For men|pageboy]] resembling Val's, was once popular, particularly for children.
* [[Harvey Kurtzman]] and [[Wally Wood]] satirized the strip with ''Prince Violent'' in ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' #13 (July 1954), which ends in Violent losing his page-boy haircut to "the fair maid Alota" in the best of all causes.
* Prince Valiant once used the guise of a demon, and that costume was an inspiration to [[Jack Kirby]] for his character [[Etrigan the Demon]].<ref>[http://www.toonopedia.com/demon.htm The Demon – Don Markstein's Toonopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The same panel also inspired the Italian creative team [[EsseGesse]] on their comic series ''Kinowa''.
* [[Bugs Bunny]] parodied the strip in ''[[Prince Violent]]'' (renamed ''Prince Varmint'' for television release) with Bugs defending a castle against Viking raider [[Yosemite Sam]].
* In the [[Academy Award]]-winning short ''[[Knighty Knight Bugs]]'', King Arthur sends court jester Bugs to recover the Singing Sword from the [[Black Knight (Arthurian legend)|Black Knight]], portrayed by [[Yosemite Sam]] in black armor.
* [[Dave Sim]] did a weekly ''Prince Valiant'' parody, ''Silverspoon'', in ''[[The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom]]''. The strip employed Foster's illustrations-with-captions format. Sim's comic book series ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' also contained a ''Prince Valiant'' parody with illustrations/captions.
* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', actor [[Jim J. Bullock]] plays Prince Valium, the consistently sleepy suitor of Princess Vespa ([[Daphne Zuniga]]), whom Vespa leaves at the altar.
* "Valiant", the second episode in the first series of the BBC's ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', features a knight Valiant played by [[Will Mellor]] who dishonourably uses an enchanted shield and dies in a duel with Arthur during the tournament finale.
* [[Richard Marcinko]] in his autobiographical work ''[[Rogue Warrior (book)|Rogue Warrior]]'' notes that one of his men was given the call sign "Prince Valiant", or PV for short, as he had a hairstyle like the comic's protagonist.
* Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon appear on the cover of the October 2009 ''[[Comics Revue]]'', drawn by [[Mark Schultz (comics)|Mark Schultz]].