Sir Gadabout Goes Overboard

The latest of six comic tales about the totally incompetent but kind-hearted knight of the round table, Sir Gadabout. In this escapade, the landlubber knight ends up taking to the high seas in the Flying Barnacle to tackle the ferocious pirate Longbeard, who has ruined the livelihood of Captain Hazard. Trading in wool, Captain Hazard buys wool from local farmers and sells it at a profit to inhabitants of the Chilliwilli islands, where the sheep have no wool of their own. Sir Gadabout, who effortlessly confuses his crew by issuing nonsensical nautical commands, manages to enrage still further the evil Longbeard by shooting his beard off.

This is a very silly but enjoyable yarn which moves at a fair rate of knots and is enhanced by Tony Ross’s excellent and unmistakeable monochrome sketches. Other titles in this series include Sir Gadabout and the Ghost, Sir Gadabout and the Little Horror and Sir Gadabout Gets Worse, in which our hero tries to recover the stolen Excalibur.