 It first appeared in "The Girly Comic" issue 5 in May 2004, was translated into Dutch in 2010 (as "Het Zwaard Der Waarheid"), appearing in the comics magazine, "Stripschrift", and into French in 2013 (as "L'Épée de Vérité"), published as a flip-book with The Girdle of Polly Hipple by BD Must.It tells the story of two actors struggling for Lily's affections on her first stage appearance.The Secret of the Samurai is twenty pages long and is set a couple of years before the events in "The Rainbow Orchid", featuring the search for a lost set of samurai armour in 1920s England.