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Long-running British newspaper cartoon strip "Beau Peep" |
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Above and below: American newspaper cartoon strip "Crock" |
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American newspaper cartoon strip "Peanuts" featuring Snoopy as a French Foreign Legionnaire ( Fort Zinderneuf was the Legion outpost in the P.C. Wren novel "Beau Geste" ) |
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Above and below: "Beau Peep", which just celebrated it's 25th Anniversary in print |
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Click On The Comic Strip Panel Above To See More "Beau Peep" Cartoons |
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American newspaper cartoon |
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Page from French Bande Dessinee |
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"I don't know where he came from, and I'm not going to ask" "Je ne sais pas d'ou il vien, et je ne demande pas non plus" |
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American comic book "Bugs Bunny" published by Dell - circa 1950's |
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"Mickey Mouse" cartoon book - circa 1930's |
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Advertising comic book created for Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. shoe store - circa 1950's |
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Inside pages of comic book, featuring TV series publicity photo of Olympic swimmer and movie "Tarzan" Buster Crabbe, as Captain Gallant |
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American comic book "Captain Gallant", based on the 1950's television show of the same name |
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Membership certificate for the "Captain Gallant Junior Legionnaire's Club". The club was sponsored by Heinz Food in the 1950's |
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Left: Captain Gallant comic book #2 ( Above ) American comic Classics Illustrated version of "Under Two Flags" - circa 1955 ( Right ) Buster Crabbe and his real life son, on the set of the television show. |
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Above: Page from French Bande Dessinee Left and right: British cartoon strip "Legionnaire Terry's Desert Quest" |
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Above, left and right: Italian comic books |
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French comic book versions of the Foreign Legion's Mexican campaign and it's most famous battle, Camerone - April 30th, 1863 |
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American comic book "Battron" #1 - published in 1993 by New England Comics |
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French bande dessinee highlighting the Foreign Legion's service in North Africa during WWII |
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Bande dessinee featuring the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in French Indochina - 1954 |
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Left and right: Ads from British and American comic books - circa 1960's (Below) British comic based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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