Luck of the Legion's Desert Adventure. A ruler who has always been a friend to the Legion
suddenly changes and sends fighting hoards across the desert. How can a boy, a silversmith, a
crimson robed figure and a beetle help the three legionnaires, Luck, Trenet and Bimberg, find the
cause and bring peace to the desert again?
Original Price : 7s 6d (37½p)
Published by : Hulton Press Ltd, London in 1958
Author : Geoffrey Bond
Dimensions : 13.5cm x 20cm with 176 pages.
Selected highlights:
- With backs to the wall the trio gave as good as they got
- "As for failure - there's no such thing. Has the Legion ever failed yet?
- These three comparatively modern musketeers (or, as Bimberg said on one occasion, 'Must-get-beers!')...
- Bimberg looked over his shoulder nervously. "Don't talk about screams," he shuddered. "The only sort I like are ice-creams!"
- "Why, it's a beetle!" Legionnaire 12345 exclaimed with some disappointment
- Luck himself reached the tent door just in time to be felled like a pole-axed bull
- "That's a fine way to go! Bodging me on the bonce - and then saying there's no ill-feeling"
- "W-what t-treasure?" stuttered Legionnaire 12345 excitedly, nearly dropping the cake he was nibbling at that moment
- "You are a lazy, good-for-nothing, chuckle-headed, jelly-bellied, son of a spaghett-eating, macaroni-making, sea-cook from Sicily!" he added
- "Ishkabibble! It gave me the heebie-jeebies!" stammered Bimberg, mopping a damp forehead. "I was more ready for a hearse than a horse!"
- "Pah!" muttered Legionnaire 12345. "I am a wonderful mathematician. Almost a ready reckoner, one might say!"
- "Stones and sticks may play their tricks but if we don't find the treasure this ain't my idea of pleasure!"
- "There's probably a mummy underneath, and it might not like to be disturbed. I know my mummy wouldn't!"
- "By Jupiter!" exclaimed Sergeant Luck. "We did the right thing after all - and it was your idea, Bimberg!"
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| CHAPTER | Page | |
| 1 | THE MAD MULLAH | 9 |
| 2 | STORM OVER AFRICA | 17 |
| 3 | IN THE SECRET OF MASKS | 25 |
| 4 | THE SCARLET SCARAB | 33 |
| 5 | AUX ARMES! | 41 |
| 6 | THE UNTAMED TRIBES | 50 |
| 7 | SECRET SAHARA | 58 |
| 8 | ORDEAL BY SPEAR | 67 |
| 9 | THE LOST OASES | 76 |
| 10 | SIEGE OF SAND | 84 |
| 11 | THE OASIS OF MYSTERY | 93 |
| 12 | SLIMANI THE COWARD | 101 |
| 13 | THE OASIS OF TREACHERY | 109 |
| 14 | MOSQUE OF DEATH | 117 |
| 15 | THE OASIS OF VULTURES | 125 |
| 16 | RACE AGAINST TIME | 134 |
| 17 | THE OASIS OF DISCOVERY | 142 |
| 18 | SURPRISE ATTACK | 151 |
| 19 | VERSUS SERGEANT LUCK | 161 |
| 20 | LEGION TRIUMPHANT | 169 |