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|_ Commando.No.4798.2015.HYBRiD.COMiC.eBook-LiBRiCiDE _|
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| Release date : 2020-03-29 |
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| Language : English |
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| Buried under rock and sand in the North African Desert lay the Shield Of |
| Truth. Made of bronze, highly polished, it revealed the truth about any |
| man who looked into its mirror surface. |
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| Hidden for over two thousand years, it was found by two British pilots |
| who had staggered mile after mile across the merciless sands. When they |
| stared at their reflections in it, one saw his bravery dissolve into |
| fearàand the other saw his fear change to bravery. |
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| Introduction |
| Our eponymous "Shield Of Truth" is an example of what film director |
| Alfred Hitchcock famously called a "MacGuffin" - a plot device: |
| something that motivates a character or propels a story forward. Here, |
| though, it plays second fiddle to the characters themselves, and |
| rightly so. |
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| However, in my opinion, the most interesting character here isn't one |
| of the leads (although they're all great) - he's a rather eccentric |
| French Foreign Legionnaire called Jules, who seemingly appears out of |
| nowhere. He reminds me of Ben Gunn from Robert Louis Stevenson's |
| classic swashbuckling tale Treasure Island and is every bit as |
| memorable. |
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| Scott Montgomery, Deputy Editor |
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| Note: Originally published as Commando No 1064 (September 1976), |
| re-issued as No 2364 (April 1990). |
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| "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to |
| stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury |
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|_ .nfo by gRISKOKARE/iMPURE!aSCII 1940. _|
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