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Murphy recounts his career as a sports and magazine illustrator before moving into syndicated strips, beginning with Big Ben Bolt in 1950 and eventually being chosen by Hal Foster as his successor on Prince Valiant in the early 1970s. He discusses his working relationship with Foster, the challenges of reduced reproduction sizes, the evolution of Prince Valiant as a character, and his artistic influences, particularly Norman Rockwell and George Bridgeman.

A wide-ranging career retrospective with the longtime artist of the syndicated soap strip Apartment 3-G. Kotzky recounts his early comic-book work in the 1940s for Will Eisner (on The Spirit) alongside Lou Fine, his wartime service, his postwar ghosting work for Milton Caniff, Stan Drake, and John Cullen Murphy, and how Apartment 3-G came together starting in 1961 with writer Nick Dallis.