APPROVED . BY THE ) CAPTAIN GALLANT Volume 1. Number 3 May, 19Sfi Published bimonthly by Charlton Comics Group. Executive offices and office of publication, Charlton Building. Derby, Conn. Copyright 1956 by Charlton Comics (Iroun. Al Fnno Executive Editor. I Printed in U.S.A.) CAPTAIN GALLANT CAPTAIN GALLANT AnO now THAT I KNOW*! 'NTENP TO KEEP WHAT IS MINS \ / M A B U P / - you LI CAN'T USE THAT ^GOLD .. THE • J AUTHORITIES S WOULD ASK TOO r MAN/ QUESTIONS.' YOU NEED ME ANP Wty MEN TO jjSMUGGLE IT OUT^ *v for you // r^ jfWfji T,p ^S^ ■I- 7F 11 IMP WR mmM£ " ^ Mm MM \Hfc^cr Ifi «B0w\ YES... X THOUGHT OF THIS POSSIBILIT/ ALSO/ WE WILL AIAHTE AM ALLIANCE... SAFE PASSAGE AND ABSOLUTE SECPECY FOR you TO CONTINUE YOUI? OPERATIONS HERE (N TANGIERS itf RETURN FOR J¥*4A.f THE TREASURE . 7J MEAM-WHIL6,- AT F C : - 'WE'PE FACEC? WITH A 1 WHERE DANGEROUS PING OF WAR 7 DO I CRIMINALS, CAPTAIN... WE / FIT HAVE TRACED THEM TO ) INTO TANGIERS... THEN WE HAVE J THIS, LOST THElP TRAIL/ 'A1A0UO SELIM--/ LOOK THE WORST /HEffE , DESERT AJEAPTAIN/ LEAPEE IN VTWtS IS YEARS/ WHAT'S VTHE GREAT THE CONNECTION,/ SAND - / DUNE TEHRAN eey/ 32* LATE IN THE WAR J: WHEN THE ALLIES *!l*j WERE eArte»OiN<3 VIC- TORIOUS/ A GROUP OF JHIGH RANKING WAR CRIMINALS E9CAPEP TO NORTH AFRICA WITH AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WEALTH .... CAPTAIN GALLANT fi-4tf ARMED WITH THE ADVANCED dTNOW- 1T4.J LEDGE OF THE TERRAIW , THEY DUG - m A MIGHTY SECRET- CACHE IN THE .REGION OF THE SAND DUNES OF &TEHRAN BE/, AN ANCIENT BURlAL- PLACE OF A OMCE - GREAT DESERT SHEIKT.. . THEN WHEN' THEif? TASK" WAS DONE , THEY REVERTEP TO THEif? TRUE PIRATICAL NATURES AND WITNESSES- WERE ^ILE-NCEO ... . FTER WHICH THE/ ALL SWORE SECRECy,/\GREEING TO MEET AGAIN AT THE SAME PLACS VVH&N THE TIME WOULD BE PIPE FOR FREEDOM AGAIN.- CAPTAIN GALLANT CAPTAIN GALLANT EViENlNG FlMOS MABUD SELIM AMD HIS GUESTS IN HIGH SF-lt?lTS AT ■;'Vv: ;'M|S- HILL.. STRONQHpLP .... EAT AND DRINK AV/ V I'D FfclENDS... THERE WILL) RATHEP BE PLENTyOFTIMETO S. 7ALIC DISCUSS OUI? PLANS/) ABOUT THEM NOW/ CAPTAIN GALLANT CAPTAIN GALLANT CAPTAIN GALLANT jffN TME NARROW STREETS OP THE NATIVE QUARTER , IN TANGIER -TENSION ROSE ANP DANGER LUBKED IN EVERy POOR- CAPTAIN GALLANT'S LEGIONNAIRES MET HO-5TILIT/ EVERYWHERE ANP EVEN CUFFy, THE LEGION AAASCOT,FOUNP SNARL'S WHERE HE EX- W THE OPPRESSIVE. BL'S^ER INS HEA1 OF SUMMER, TEMPER© FRAYED AND THE TRIBES- MEN LEFT THE ARIP HILLS FOR FOOP ANP WATER IN TANGIER — CAPTAIN GALLANT'S LEG (ON AIRES HAD TROUBLE KEEPING CONTROL 4 REPORTING MYSELF f \ THAT'S A UNDER ARREST, SlR/J BEAUTIPUL FIGHTING AGAINST / SHINER, FUZZV/ /OUR ORDERS, SIR// SHOULD WE IN THE NATIVH -if SENTENCE HIM QUARTER/ / I TO BREAD AND |S^ y V WATSB.CUPW? k Hi '-. 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A FEW MINUTES UATER FOUND SEVERAL ARASS BADLV BATTERED BUT CAPTAIN GALLANT PRISONER/ CAPTAIN GALLANT I'LL TAKTE THAT POPGUN, BUSTER/ I'VE GOT PLANS/ anc? you'RE IN MY WAY/ Agent V In "Missing Message." The large sight seeing bus stopped at the corner. The driver turned around and spoke to the passengers. "Last stop! Ail off. Tell your friends to take this bus when they come to the big city. Know ail you folks had a good time. If you want to have a bite in a hurry then try the hamburger shop right opposite this bus. Good food and swell coffee." All but three of the passengers left the bus. The driver then closed the door and drove around the street. He entered a large garage and headed up a ramp which led to the roof. There he parked the bus. "All clear. Colonel," he said to a thin man. "I'll stand guard outside just in case we get any unexpected visitors." Colonel. Geoffrey Phelps" head of our United Intelligence Division spoke to the second man in the bus. "You wanted me to get Agent V for you. Sir Johnson. The man sitting behind you is your man. It was necessary to take these precautions to prevent any secret red agents from knowing about your mission. You may disclose all infor- mation. As head of the British Counter Espio- nage Unit you have -full power to help Agent V in the task you are assigning to him. We too shall give him our aid." The man seated behind Sir Johnson was dres- sed in a loud sport coat. He might have been a visitor from some university to the Big Gty. It was hard -to tell his age. His skin was white and lineless. He might have been in his early thirties or forties. Offhand you would be ready to com- ment that he must have led a life of ease. You could not spot the superbly trained athletic body that could spring into action in the fraction erf s second. "Several important documents were stolen from one of our diplomats In Vienna. We know they are in the possession of Paul Kozono, the so-called mystery man of Europe. At present he Is in Italy. He will leave In five days on the S. S. Mauritia for England. Those documents will then find their way Into the hands of the six leading red spies planted In England. We would like to have Paul Kozono caught. If I may be permitted to use an American expression, caught with the goods." "Paul Kozono is one of the top red agents in the world," interrupted Colonel Phelps. "The reds have supplied him with almost unlimited funds. As a front he has purchased factories in different countries. This gives him a valid excuse for doing a lot of travelling. My orders to you are simple and direct. Get him!" "I will want certain orders carried out," re* plied Agent V. "The captain of the S.S. Mauritia is to follow them carefully. And you are to see that Paul Kozono learns I am on his trail.'* Even the carefully trained head of the British Counter Espionage Unit couldn't help betraying some surprise on his face. "Isn't that a bit unusual?" he mildly protest- ed. "Tell your man you are on his trail? What is the reason, if I may ask?" "Human psychology," was the reply. "1 want to unnerve him a bit and force him to make some changes in his well planned moves. I want as complete a picture of him as possible, in- eluding everything he does. A human being is a creature of habits. Something he does, or per- haps, doesn't do, might help me." Captain Betram Cully, of the S.S. Mauritia, only had two guests at his table. To. be invited to sit and dine with the captain was considered an honor, and all eyes in the ship's main din- ing room were centered on the two men seated on either side of the captain. A steward appear- ed at the table. He gave the captain a message which was quickly read. "You two gentlemen will kindly excuse me,** he apologized. "I must go to the bridge at once." Paul Kozono was a middle-aged man. He was powerfully built and reminded you of a bull. He spoke to the man who had been intro- duced to him as James Glover. "I assume you are a tourist on his first trip abroad.'" "Completely wrong," replied Glover. "You know my identity. I am Agent V. For this Infor- mation the sum of 25,000 lira was paid to one Marco Forino by Hans Schmuller. My task Is to get you. That means to show you are a red agent and also to recover the stolen documents which you must have on this ship." ' Paul Kozono's left hand was underneath the table. He dug his nails into the palm of his hand to steady himself. This was quite an unex- pected turn of events. Either Agent V was as clever as they said he was, or he was a big fool. Paul Kozono remembered an old proverb, "A fool could be as dangerous as a clever man." "The sea is rather calm this evening," he re- plied thus changing the subject and giving him more time to reflect about the situation. "Later an American picture shall be shown and I am certain you will enjoy it. Some comedy about what you call cops and robbers." For an hour, Agent V had been leaning on the rail of the ship! The night was dark and no moon could be seen in the sky. A mist was set- tling over the ship. He was alone at this late hour and suddenly he turned around. He grab- bed the hand of a man who had been poised with a knife. There was a brief struggle. Then two other men rushed to the scene and took charge of the would be killer. "Take him to the captain's quarters," ordered Glover. "t am certain we will get a statement from him.''' "I have nothing to say," repeated the man whose name on the ship's registry was given as Frank Nubel. "When you tried lo kill me," explained Glover. "Six cameras loaded with ultra-violet and fog piercing film were trained on you. These pictures have now been developed. You will be turned over to the British authorities when the ship docks. And you may rest assured you will receive a long prison term. Now will you make a statement." "Just this," snarled the man. "A voice in the night told me to kill you. That's all." "Take him to the brig," ordered Captain Betram Cully to one of his officers," and keep him under constant guard." When the man had been removed, the cap- tain turned to his famous guest. "I am a bit curious. If it isn't a top secret, how did you figure out an attack was going to be made on your life?" "As much as has been known about the cctivities of Paul Kozono has been given to me. f have studied all known details about his life. Whenever he was annOyed with somebody, that person was killed. So I deliberately annoyed him. Frank Nubel is just one of his paid killers. I could watch from the back because I have a special mirror setup on my wrist watch. I don't care whether or not we finally get a statement from Frank Nubel implicating Paul Kozono. I think I know how that red agent manages to smuggle papers into England." The custom officials had opened every bit of luggage belonging to the red agent. Then they ripped apart the luggage itself. Watching all this was Paul Kozono. 'You will have to pay for the damage done," he complained. "I having nothing to conceaj. This is an insult to me. I shall demand an official apology. My government will fake care of this matter for me." "I doubt it very much," said the voice of Sir Johnson. "Because even if we were to let" you go free, you could never go back to your coun- try. You know what happens to an agent who fails. Meanwhile t have a warrant for your arrest. You will be my guest at my country home for the next three weeks." At the end of three weeks, Paul Kozono faced Agent V in a small room. Armed guards were at the door. "All this is illegal," shouted an angry prison- er. "You have no evidence on which to hold me.'* In reply. Agent V took out a large envelope and opened it. Before the eyes of the astonished prisoner he spread on a table some highly im- portant documents. . "The information in these stolen documents were in code. You brought them here for the other agents because one of those agents was a code specialist. On every trip you took on the S.S. Mauritia you had the same stateroom re- served. You hid the documents underneath the floor. Before the ship soiled a man brought your baggage aboard. This red agent removed the board and took the documents away with him. We substituted another set of documents. Can you imagine what trouble they wilt cause? In addition we followed that spy and arrested the other agents. They talked, so you better df the same." Later, Sir Johnson wanted to know one thing. How did Agent V learn about the plan used to smuggle In papers to England. "When Paul Kozono used other ships tt* didn't always take the same stateroom. But *. this ship, he always took the same stateroc*- Why should a creature of habit change It? Tho> was the clue." "Now I know why they call you Agent V,** commented "Sir Johnson. "V for Victory, the Victory of Democracy over Red Tyranny," THE END CAPTAIN GALLANT _/HB LOVE SARDU HAD FOB HIS SASER WAS AM UNUSUAL THIMG .' BUT MOT TO THE MEM OF THE LK3IOW / FOR THEY KWEVU THAT M£U OFTEW REWOM THEIR WEAPOMS TO PULL THEM THROUGH .' ONLY THEY FORGOT THAT THE SABER FOE SARDU MEAHT HIS LIFE / FROM THE VERY FIRST, SARDU WAS A, AWN DIFFER INT FROM We REST / HE VMAS A SORN SOIOI6E„ HOUi WHEW I CMl THE ORDERS. EVERY /MAM WILL FOUOW THEM TO THE LETTER .' CAPTAIN GALLANT THfS FACT WAS. SOON APPARENT CXJPlUG TH£ MONTHS, THAT FQCIQWEP ... UOU/ X WANT YGU TO SHOU/ /M6 hou; YOU'D Ft&HT HAWD-TO-HAND SHOULD YOU B£ ATTACKED ,' CAPTA9N GALLANT AFTER THAT. 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SEEN ALLi t THIS/r — ' «* / (6ULP/J \ 'he's oax ) > A COP \ ■ WITH HIM') ill -_.v, -A ■ X SAW IT ALL.' JUST AS X WAS LEAVIW&, THAT HOOPLIJfA SeA68E[7 ' MY VIOLIN FBOfA THOSE SOYS AND P6STROYEP . IT' w The fcewch foreigw legion is unique among the c5rsa.t military units any - where .' teaditionallv hard-bitten and in - defatigable fishtiug mew, thev come from all nations, speakfmg. multiple tonsues-- with little im common, except a love of combat amd adven- ture , the blend of nationalities merge to become fierce FtSHTSFRS WITH AN ESPRIT DE CORPS UN- MATCHED Sy AMY FISHT- IN