Los diamantes de la gran duquesa

Los Diamantes de la Gran Duquesa (English: The Grand Duchess's Diamonds) is a 1972 comic written and drawn by Francisco Ibañez for the Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort & Phil) comic series.

Publication history
The comic strip was first published in the Mortadelo magazine, issues #87 (July 17, 1972) to #97 (October 2, 1972). It was republished in issue #20 of the Ases del Humor Collection and issue #66 of Colección Olé in 1994.

Plot
The Grand Duchess Tatialagueña comes to visit, and the T.I.A. entrusts Mortadelo and Filemon with the task of guarding the Duchess' personal treasure: Ten diamonds of enormous size. But as they arrive at the hotel, one of Mortadelo's usual mishaps with the diamonds piques the interest of the crook Vicente el Urraco, who promptly steals the invaluable gems.

El Urraco hides the diamonds in ten separate locations all around the city: An apartment building, a construction site, the harbor bay, the sewer, a farm, the top of an alley tree, a park, a barber's salon, a practical jokers' clubhouse, and a crook's flat. After a long and arduous search, Mortadelo and Filemón succeed in recollecting the diamonds, but on their way back to the Grand Duchess Mortadelo drops the bag with the stones into the path of a steamroller, which crushes them all to dust. As a result, they end up being chased by both their boss and the Duchess, who suspect them of having stolen the diamonds.

In other media

 * This comic's plot was adapted for the Mortadelo y Filemón cartoon series, under the title El caso de los diamantes ("The Diamond Case"; season 2 episode 1).