off the Foreign Legion

CAPTAIN GALLANT

of the rOREIGII 1EGI0

THIS tS CAPTAIN
GALLANT, SDlOIER
OF FORTUNE, LEADER
OF THE FOREIGN
LS&ION AT FORT
YUSAN-8AH-HE
SFSAKS SELDOM AND
ONLY WHEN HE HAS
SOMETHING TO -SAY.
HE SHOOTS FAST
AND DEADLY, BUT
ONLY TO PROTECT AND
DEFEND. THE DESERT
KNOWS HIM AS A
TRUE FRIEND AND

A FIERCE ENEMY.

I ADORE YOU "JOSEPHINE'? YOU

HAVE TH£ MOST BEAUTIFUL EYES

AND, &OSH, YOU'RE MY

DESERT MARILYN
MONROE

this is the emblem
of the foreign
lesion. every man
who wears this
eaaslem has pledged
his honor, and his

LIFE TO &RlN<b LAW'
AND ORDER WHERE
EVER THEY UVE
AND FIGHT '

THESE ARE THE

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LEGIONNAIRES, MEN

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WITH BODIES OF

Vlu

STEEL — DESERT

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FIGHTERS AND

SHARP SHOOTERS-

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WElL'SASA", CAPTAIN GALLANT ORPEREC'I
ME TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE
"OKElSN LESION . &EE, WH&KE
SHALL I BBGIN ~

r« ONLY THE /MASCOT »UT I 0&SY THE

*Ul£S LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. THE LEGION
li PART OF THE FRENCH ARMV , BUT NO
MATTER WHAT COUNTRY YOU CO/WE FROM
YOU CAN JOIN THE LE&lOM . FRANCE DOBS
NOT HAVE ANYONE WHO ASKS YOU TO JOIN
iF YOU WANT TO BECOME A LE&IONNA/RE
Y0U JU5T COME IN AND SAY '1 WANT TO
BE A LEG/ONNAIRE . '

ru tell you One thing, ine desert sands set into your, hair and all

OVER. YOU ANO THE DESERT SUN MAKES YOU SWEAT. BUT LE&IONNAjRES KEEP
THEMSELVES CLEAN AND POLISHED AND BRUSHED WHENEVER, THEY CAN.
THEY'RE PROUD OF THEIR UNIFORMS AND THE WAY THEY L0O/< .

>e5 sir ! the le&ion

wusht side by side

ivith the allies in

the last world

WAR '

lOSIEMSMir

M.L RIGHT.' THERE IT IS. ONE MMDgEO
AND TWENTY THOUSAND FRANCS ON
JOSEPHINE AND THERE'S YOUR SUCKER
' /HONEY TO /HATCH. GERTRUDE IS THE
FASTEST CAMEL IN AFRICA AND 1*1

OUR OWEL WILL BE
"EL NADAR"AND THE
l?IPEI?AUSEN. THE
CONTEST BEGINS
TO/HORBOtVAT EIGHT.

THE SILLY FACED \
ONE IS FUZZ/. HE
KlOeS FOR THE /
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AH.' THAT ONE.' \
LOCKS LIKE A I
CAMEL SHOULD /

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I DON'T KNOW
WAT HAPPENED.!
GUESS I JUST TOOK

tt MARCHER ON CREVER"

"MARCH OR Pit"

"J^ARCH OR OlEf" FOR ALMOST I2S YEARS, SOLDIERS OF THE FRmNCH FOREtQN LEO/ON HAVE
KNOWN THIS BRUTAL AND BOLD ORDER. "MARCH OR. DIE"; FOR IN THE DESERT, YOU KEEP
MOVING OR VOL/ DISAPPEAR — BURIED IN THE BURNING GRAVE OF THE DESERT SANDS .'

PRANCE MUST FIND A WAY

TO ANSWER HER PROBLEM

REFUGEES FROM ALL OVER

EUROPE HAVE COME TO OUR

COUNTRY. WHAT WILL

I oo with them

THESE MEN-HAVE PROVEN
THEMSELVES THE BRAVEST
MGHTERS FOR FREEDOM
IN THEIR LANDS. IT WOULD
SE A PITY IF FRANCE FAILS
TO BENEFIT FROM
THEIR &REAT COURASE

YES . YOUR
MAJESTY . WE WILL
SIVE THESE
SOLDIERS OF
FORTUNE THEIR,
CHANCE 10
SERVE THEIR.
ADOPTED COUNTRY,
WITH HONOR.

I. LOUIS-PHILIPPE, KIN© OF FRANCE",
ALL PRESENT AND TO COME , SALUTE.
ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF OUR.
MIN;STEK, SECRETARY OF STATE IN CHAR&E
OF THE WAR. DEPARTMENT, HAVE ORDEREC?
THE FOLLOWING I ART- 1 - A LEGION COMPOSED
OP PORai&NERS WILL BE FORMED. 17 WILL
BE CALLED 'FOREIGN LEGION "
PARIS, MARCH /O,
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, s /^ AWAKEN, CAPTAIN SALLAN

/ WH05 1 <v_ THERE IS TZOUOLE'

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<f£T THE AMERICAN CONSUL
CALL OUT THE AtAEINES.' I PEMANP
ACTION / MAKCIA HAS BEEN
KIPNAPPED.'

THEV SAV UNLESS THEY SET ONE
MILLION CE4NCS VOU SHALL MSMW
VOUE OAU&HTglZ AU*E
AGAIN '

'ITS OICAV, CUFPV. I A NATIVE StHB MB
WHAT HAPPENS? HERE./ A LOT OF ICECBEAM,
ANP BOV, IT WAS
COOP WHEW 1 sen
BACKTOAWBUMK.

ALLBiawr THgee ake theee entrances. X just a*

eiCHAEP SU6SSES MABCIA IS BEINS YOU OBPEB,

HELD IN THECHAMBEK OP THE PeiNCESS/ CAPTAIN
FATIMA. EACH ONE OP THE PASSAGES -\. SALLANT.
LEAPTOTHE CHAMBER W6 MUST6ET
TC>THAT BOOM WITHOUT BEINS SEEN

YOU,Me<JUINT. WILL TAKE A WHITE
FLAS ANP THIS BOX CONTAINING
THE ONE MILLION FJWNCS ANR AS
INSTBUCTEP IN. THE EAMS0M NOTE
PEUVSR IT TO THE FAK ENPOF THE

boom eEMEMsee, mabcia's ufs

pepeu&s on voi/eAiaevMa

our yaueoKvejis.' ,

WB1.L TAK6 THE BOVAL USSSt WHICH 7 yOUB PLAM ISTO PBAW THE LEAPEE V
LEA06 WBECTLV TO THE CHAMB6R C* / OUT OP THE RUINS TO TAKE THE ~c*
CATU4A, 1 HOPS VOU'CE eiCHT, _-S[ RANSOM MONEY' FBC« MEOU.W ,'

cichabc ■ , , I,.. -^^T V_ while w* fescue -. ^

MAKCIA!

enoLtM ALBieaeitJ) mlsicmbm show*

ALLAH BE WITH VOU, ./ALLAH BE WITH YOU ALSO.
ALL IS WELL? y—^Vg^ALL I* WELL! SOON
WE SHALL HAVE THE MONEY
AMP FATHER ANP CSAUSHTEE
SHALL PERISH HERE IN THE
eUNSOPFATIMA/

t eecainizE «ue voicE,6EecEAi>n- puval.' one palss move amp thev

ALL PIE INSTANTLY/ ABE YOU BEAPV TO BAI?6AIN ? ^ L L 1 WANT
It TUB MOUSY- YOU CAN HAVE THE AMERICANS BUT..
_Y©U MUST LET
ME ESCAPE.'

YCU MUST MAKE «?UR OFFER TO CAPTAIN
GALLANT, WHO IS JUST 06HINP ME.
CAPTAIN GALLANT WHAT'l

&OOV, PUVAL IS PUEPARINS
to Attack;, he knows f

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF

$£0E66S BOHNERT LIVED AND FOU&HT WITH THE PCEWCH FOREI&N LE6I0N . HIS NATIVE
LAND WAS 6ERMANV. FOR TWENTY YEARS HE SERVED THE LE6JON , THEN , RETURNED
HOME TO ©ERMANV WHERE HE DIED. ON THE GRAVESTONE OF &EOR&ES SOHNCRT
ARe THESE WORDS ■

" MAUCHENHEIM, GERMANY — JULY /¥ , t9¥&
r WOULD LIKE TO BE BURIED IN THE POLOS OF THE SLUE -WHITE -AND- RED
FLAG AND BE TAKEN TO THE CEMETERY BY A FRENCH MILITARY DETACHMENT,
TO THE COMMANDING OFF/CEK.,AS WELL AS ALL OFFICERS AND. SOLO/ESS, I
W3H TO BID FAREWELL .

SISNSO ! GEORGES BOHNBRT "

yOU WILL TELL THE
OWNERS THAT YOU
LOST THE AniMAlS
AND THEIR PACKS IN

$%T <sOSh I DON'T FEEL 50

\ HERE

ggg tSAD FDJC MYSElF

BUT POOR

/ TMEy

EggS. "SABA" ? OH , HER

ACHIN' >

'CALL IT

N SACK.: SHE WANTED / --^THE "WILL,

1 THAT NEW SADDLE /OF

ALLAH" I

V^ SO MUCH

^^<<CALL

IT T0U6H
_ lUCK,

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you were Right, mOn

CAP/TAINE ! THERE HAS BEEN
NO DESERT STORM IN THE
AREA OF THE CARAVAN FOR
THE PAST TWO WEEKS. THE
wESSbn&ER. WAS

60SH | THAT'S A DlRTY
TRICK. ! WHY DID THEY
HAVE TO STEAL "SAB AS"
NEW SADDLE ? I'M
GONNA GO AND 6ET
■\ MYSELP.'

BRING YUSEF THE CARAVAN
LEADER TO ME . 3S CAREFUL '
DON'T FRlSHTEN HIM OR. LET
ANYONE SEE YOU BRING

MON CAPITAINE, NO MATTER \YOU HAVE ALWAYS SEEN
WHAT YOUR CHARTS SAID TO )AN HONEST MAN, YUSEF.
yOU , IT IS ALLAH '5 COMMAND /THERE WAS NOTHIN6 OF
THAT I TELL YOU IT WAS ./IMPORTANCE IN MY PACK,
A DESERT STORM ' rX\ S0 BE °N v0UR WAy - ALLAH
. BE WITH YOU.

TOMORROW YOUR CARAVAN

^THE CLEVER ^H

LEAVES AND WE WILL GO

/CAPTAIN GALLANT I

Ska»

with you • all Our goods

/IS ON A FALSE J

WILL BE PACKED AND W£ <

'trail, he left 4

anp

SHALL SELL THEM FOR A

1 THIS NI6HT IN ■

MUSSB/M .

FORTUNE (N VA&ADORF. j

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THE

OBEY ME AND YOU WILL

i DIRECTION !_^B

CROOK,

SE RICH- DEFY ME AND— *

AND

YAH AS, MS

LIEUTENANT,

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MEET IN
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THE
CARAVAN
IS READY

LEAVE..

W SO VUSEF IS DEAD AMD THE CAMELS X
( CARRY ONLY MERCHANTS &OODS ? IT V&*
V\ WOULD APPEAR WE ARE &UILTV OF •&fy
W A SRAVE MISTAKE ANP A SERJ<?U5 J
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MUSSEIM AND THE CARAVAN MOUNT UP 'AND
PREPARE TO LEAVE...

MY REPORT OF YOUR ACTIONS SHALL 60
10 THE HISHEST AUTHORITIES, CAPTAIN
GALLANT- THEy WILL KNOW
HOW TO DEAL WITH YOU
AND YOUR SANS

ALRl&HT, SERSEANT DUVAL- "W
THEIR TRICK. BACKFIRED- -^H
DISARM THEM ALL.' ARREST ^1
EVERY MAN . I CHARGE YOU, 1
MUS5EIM , WITH ROBBERY >J
V. AND MURDER.' _„---''' -

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AGAIN. VOU HAVE
OUTWITTED AND
OUTFOU&HT THE
WRONGDOERS
SUT WHERE if
THE CARAVAN
WITH THE STOLEN

AND SEAX&EANT OUyAL WAS AS Rl^Hl
A$ ZAtN , FOR THE NEXT M0A/V//V&.,.

r—

Captain

GALLANT

of the Foreign Legion

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