The title is a bit misleading – there’s only one tale presented here, a guard in a remote outpost who has not been relieved in 42 years. A prospective recruit passes by in the next page, but doesn’t have the intelligence to realize that he’s been drafted to guard the outpost, which means that the guard has to keep doing his duty. It’s not a very uplifting story and is mostly played for laughs, but the art is very nice.

(Heavy Metal issue #23, February 1979 – Page 45 The Tales of Karvul by Kirchner)