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Legion Pulp: Legion of the Frontier
This epic Foreign Legion tale appeared in the February 1933 issue of Thrilling Adventures. The author is listed as Captain Kerry McRoberts which is one of the many in-house pseudonyms used by this...
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Legion Pulp: The Banner Flies High
Here’s another paperback from the John Spencer & Company’s Foreign Legion Series. This one is from 1955 and is one of several stories penned by W. H. Fear, which is a pseudonym used in multiple...
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Legion Pulp: One Man Who Knew
Here’s a short tale of the Foreign Legion from the pen of Bob Du Soe that appeared in the Arpil 1935 issue of the pulp magazine Top Notch. Nothing special here apart from some mysterious skullduggery...
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Legion Pulp: The Legionnaire (J. D. Newsom)
This month’s pulp fiction story comes from an early issue of The Frontier (April 1925). It’s also an early Foreign Legion story (possibly one of his first) from the pen of J. D. Newsom (considering his...
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Legion Pulp: The Devil’s Legion
This month’s pulp fiction story is another installment from the Foreign Legion Series published by John Spenser & Company in 1955. The author for this story is again W. H. Fear, a pseudonym used...
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Legion Pulp: Heat of Battle
This Georges Surdez story comes from Blue Book Magazine (February 1941). It’s one of the very few Foreign Legion action stories set in the 1915 Dardanelles / Gallipoli Campaign of World War One. This...
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Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!
Merry Christmas to all of the followers of this blog, regular readers and occasional visitors. Wishing you and your families a happy and joyful Christmas season and a great 2025. Join me in praying...
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Les Mystères De La Légion Étrangère by Georges D’Esparabès
This book was first published in 1901 by Ernest Flammarion and was written by the popular French writer and journalist of the time, Georges D’Esparabès. Keep in mind that any forms of journalistic...
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Books for 2024
Each year there are new Foreign Legion books on the market and 2024 was a good year for more memoirs and a couple of pulp-like fiction series. 1. Inside the French Foreign Legion: Adventures with the...
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Grit Gregson: Grit’s Problem Pal
Here’s another Grit Gregson story to finish the year off. This one appeared in the 27 February, 1954, issue of the UK Comic Lion. The plot of course is simple enough for two pages. Grit, the British...
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