Jack O'Lantern and the Fighting Cock takes Jack out of the pages of the Eagle Comic
into a completely new thrilling adventure where he befriends the redoubtable Fighting Cock,
who claims for himself the title of Comte de Rajac. But the sinister and ruthless secretary
to King Louis XVIII, exiled in England after the French Revolution, lays claim to the same
title. Which one is the real Comte?
Original Price : 7s 6d (37½p)
Published by : Hulton Press, London in 1958
Author : George Beardmore
Dimensions : 13.5cm x 20cm with 176 pages.
Selected highlights:
- My name, sir, is Henri Charles-Xavier Eugène de la Coque, Comte de Rajac."
- It was like making friends with a black panther, but one can even come to love black panthers.
- Jack thought: "Gummy, they are going to ship me abroad!"
- "You blundering dolts, you've brought the wrong boy"
- Jack could have kissed her. He found a shilling in his pocket, pressed it into the girl's hand, and with some objection from Bucktooth mounted him and swung off at a canter.
- Jack said: "Let's be off, I can't get the smell of that potato-store out of my nostrils."
- "We came," Charles-Xavier replied, "with a cargo of red wine from Médoc."
- When he had gone, Jack said: "Gummy, Charles-Xavier, you've got what you came for, and a bit over! Supposing this villain Laroque were a spy!"
- Suddenly Mick shouted hoarsely: "Hell's bells and buckets of blood, but if I had this rogue here I'd squeeze his windpipe between these knuckles! Was ever such scum?"
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| FOREWORD | 8 | |
| 1 | THE KIDNAPPING | 9 |
| 2 | THE ESCAPE | 24 |
| 3 | LOST WITHOUT TRACE | 40 |
| 4 | AN INTERVIEW WITH A KING | 57 |
| 5 | FOUND! | 73 |
| 6 | THE FATE OF NATIONS | 87 |
| 7 | THIEVES' KITCHEN | 109 |
| 8 | THE NIGHT PROWLERS | 122 |
| 9 | AT THE "CLUB DES EMIGRÉS" | 136 |
| 10 | PASSAGE OF ARMS | 157 |