The Case of the White Lion is the first of two stories in Issue 10 of the Adventures of Biggles comic series published by Action Comics of Sydney, Australia released in Apr 1954. The story is an adaptation of The Case of the White Lion from Biggles of the Special Air Police. The comic strip carries a byline for the artist Albert de Vine.
In issue 10, the story is followed by The Too Successful Company.
Synopsis[]
Biggles is asked to investigate the mysterious appearance of a white lion who has disrupted efforts to start a cattle station in Nigeria.
Plot summary[]
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This is a fairly faithful adaptation of the original story.
- The preliminary discussion with Raymond is shortened but still takes 3 pages of pictures.
- Like in the original, the full air police crew goes along. Here Biggles takes a Percival Pembroke (named specifically), which is really a much more appropriate aircraft than a Proctor. After all, besides carrying four people, a quantity of stores would need to be loaded. Hard to see how everything needed for an expedition could fit into a Proctor.
- Most of the incidents and scenes are reproduced accurately and the story ends in the same way as in the orginal.
Characters[]
The Special Air Police[]
- Air Commodore Raymond
- Biggles
- Ginger Hebblethwaite
- Algy Lacey
- Bertie Lissie
Others[]
Mentioned[]
Aircraft[]
Gallery[]
A Percival Pembroke is a sensible choice and much better than the Proctor in the original since there are four of them and they had to carry stores to operate in a remote environment. A Proctor was already underpowered, what more with 4 crew. Where could the stores go?
Another view of the Pembroke. Plenty of space for Periera at the back.