Shining Knight

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Background

SHINING KNIGHT

First Appearance: Adventure Comics #66 (September 1941)

Sir Justin of Camelot was given a flying horse and enchanted sword by the sorcerer Merlin as a reward for his valour in serving King Arthur. Centuries later, after being frozen in a block of ice, he reappeared in America's time of need when threatened by the Axis menace. His valour and morality were an example to all, and caused Firebrand to fall in love with him.

He founded the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and has survived relatively youthfully to this day. Recently he fought the menace of the Dragon King, who (it seems) had killed Firebrand, enlisting old friend Pat Dugan, to help him.

One of the prominent artists working on the original Shining Knight stories was Frank Frazetta. It's a guy with a sword on a horse with wings -- you can kinda see the style there.

  • There's an interview with Shining Knight's Italian artist Simone Bianchi over here (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?threadid=29199).

New story

Genre: Sword and Sorcery (only thrown into modern Los Angeles)

Location: Camelot > Los Angeles

The issues:

Other appearances: 

Morrison on SK, in a Comicon interview (http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004150), 5 Sept 05: 

 "The Shining Knight is Sir Justin, a young soldier from
a primal Camelot, a globe-spanning kingdom before the Flood,
10, 000 years in our past. When the Sheeda plunder Arthur's
realm and set up in the great king's place, an Empire of
Death and Evil, Justin is spun through time in a Sheeda
castle only to find himself in 21st century Los Angeles,
centuries after everyone he knew lies dead. And what's worse,
the annihilating Sheeda are back, this time to harvest OUR
world. Justin's a commando, a guerrilla fighter in strange
and savage enemy territory. He's also a boy with a couple of
big secrets as we'll see in issue 4."

Read more about Shining Knight in Toonopedia (http://www.toonopedia.com/shknight.htm).

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