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The infamous Captain Dagon, a member of the Austradian secret service, infiltrates a mission to the Black Islands led by Norlandia and which aims to get his hands on uradium, a mineral with prodigious properties. Soon, the expedition will experience extraordinary adventures...
One of the best-sellers of the European comics which became myth and symbolizes the quality comics of the general public. the author, E.P. Jacobs, who was a close friend of Hergé, loved the mismatch that took on its full dimension in scientific inventions (including the famous Espadon). We will also mention an extraordinary gallery of characters such as Septimus, Olrik or Miloch. The fascination exercised by this series remains today intact: for proof of unprecedented success of the Affair Francis Blake, signed by Ted Benoit and Jean Van Hamme. Legendary heroes of the 9th art, Professor Philip Mortimer and Captain Francis Blake, characters with all British phlegm, fight in almost each of their adventures the sinister Colonel Olrik. The action begins in Tibet, where the megaloman Emperor Basam Damdu wants to provoke the third world war. He is assisted by an unscrupulous adventurer who makes himself known as Colonel Olrik. As the preparations go well, Blake and Mortimer put to the point the only weapon, but in the way you want to recover the dark one's of the free world. The latter is the hero's-de-de-deed-dead, the whole-deed-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de
The action begins in Tibet, where the megalomaniac Emperor Basam Damdu wants to provoke the Third World War. He is assisted by an unscrupulous adventurer who calls himself Colonel Olrik. While preparations are going well, Blake and Mortimer are developing the only weapon that can still save the free world. The assault launched, our heroes must take the plans to a secret submarine base of the Indian Ocean. But many peripets will hinder them in their march towards the meeting point. Volume 2 tells how, after losing the plans of the famous Espadon, Mortimer is captured by wanting to recover them, then his escape from Olrik's hands. Finally, the last volume describes the latest preparations for the counterattack whose point of departure lies from the secret base allied. Olrik, infiltrated within it, will attempt to make everything fail but without success. The adventure is concluded by the triumphal march of the invincible Espadon, thus restoring to the world his freedom.
The action begins in Tibet, where the megalomaniac Emperor Basam Damdu wants to provoke the Third World War. He is assisted by an unscrupulous adventurer who calls himself Colonel Olrik. While preparations are going well, Blake and Mortimer are developing the only weapon that can still save the free world. The assault launched, our heroes must take the plans to a secret submarine base of the Indian Ocean. But many peripets will hinder them in their march towards the meeting point. Volume 2 tells how, after losing the plans of the famous Espadon, Mortimer is captured by wanting to recover them, then his escape from Olrik's hands. Finally, the last volume describes the latest preparations for the counterattack whose point of departure lies from the secret base allied. Olrik, infiltrated within it, will attempt to make everything fail but without success. The adventure is concluded by the triumphal march of the invincible Espadon, thus restoring to the world his freedom.
Professor Philip Mortimer has decided to spend his vacation in Cairo with his faithful servant, Nasir. He intends to find his old friend, Professor Ahmed Rassim Bey, curator of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, who offers him the fantastic opportunity to satisfy his passion for Egyptology. Professor Bey invited him to participate in the deciphering of his last finds, in this case the papyrus from a cardboarding of mummy of the Ptolemies' era. His enthusiasm is such that he is not worried about Nasir's suspicions, which, as soon as they arrived at the airport, has the impression that they are followed by a mysterious black " Lincoln ". He plunges with delights into the mysteries of ancient Egyptology. And what is not his stupidity to discover that one of the fragments seems to have been written by Manethon, the only historian of Egyptian race and whose work had been lost for two thousand years. Mortimeless in the pitfall of the pitfall, the character of the crime, the character of the crime, the character of the crime goes to surprise.
Captain Blake murdered at the Athens airport, Olrik seems to have won the first round. Mad of rage, Mortimer swears that he will never cease to avenge his friend. He starts hunting, but the tracks are rare. Cheik Abdel Razek, an old man with mysterious powers, warns him against the entourage of Dr Grossgrabenstein, a wealthy Egyptology enthusiast who undertook excavations not far from the Great Pyramid. Sharkey, the construction manager hired by the doctor, is a well-known brute. Twice Mortime Mortimer intervenes in favour of Abdel Razek that Sharkey was preparing to correct of importance, thus attracting the sympathy of the noble old man. The repeated warnings of the latter have not ceased to awaken the curiosity of Mortimer. Strange events occur on the excavations, some of which seem to be supernatural. In fact, Mortimer will sometimes feel like losing foot in this investigation that will lead him into the depths of the Great Pyramide, and will often turn into discovery.
The walls of the City only resonate with the incredible exploits of the "Yellow Mark". This mysterious criminal multiplies the spectacular actions: raid on the bank of England, theft of the Gainsborough of the National Galery, and even the theft of the Royal Crown of England... Nothing seems to be able to stop him. His daring goes so far as to warn the police of the place of the completion of his packages, ridiculing each time a little more Scotland Yard. The apparent ease with which he dislodges from the police devices ends up worrying the highest authorities in the country. Captain Francis Blake is sent by the Home Office to Scotland Yard to elucidate the case and discover the identity of the man who hides behind the Yellow Mark. The captain immediately associates himself with the services of his old friend, Professor Philip Mortimer, whose scientific knowledge will prove valuable in this extremely complex case. But here are the flights succeeding the abductions. A reputable doctor, a character-club will have an evil list of his own, a character--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initially published in "Le journal de Tintin" from n° 42 of October 19, 1955 to n° 51 of December 19, 1956, and then published in album in April 1957, here is one of the "best-sellers" of the European comic book which became myth and symbolizes the quality public comic strip. The author, Edgar P. Jacobs (for Edgar Pierre Jacobs, 1904-1987), who was a close friend of Hergé, loved the demeasurement that took all its dimension in scientific inventions (including the famous Espadon). Another example is an extraordinary gallery of characters such as Septimus, Olrik or Miloch. The fascination exerted by this series, the fruit of a perfectionist genius, remains today intact. "On holiday in the archipelago of the Azores, Professor Mortimer makes a stupefying discovery. During the exploration of a gulf named "O foro do diabo" (the hole of the devil), he finds an unknown metal with amazing radioactive and luminescent properties. He cannot sufficiently imagine his own selves a character of the Congo, the "delicity" that the Congo, this is the "dest of the "dest" in the fact. They are accompanied by a guide, Pépé and his assistant, under whose features the adventurer Olrik, their most mortal enemy, is hiding. The latter was hired by a foreign power to recover the precious ore. The descent into the dangerous caldeiras begins. This plunge into the bowels of the earth will lead them to live their most extraordinary adventure. Elucidating a mystery of centuries, they will go to the discovery of Atlantis, its people and its enemies, explore the lost continent and risk their lives to safeguard peace in the Atlantean Empire. They will brave a thousand dangers to return to our world where Atlantis remains an unsolved riddle... The least of these dangers being not Olrik... "
Meteorological phenomena of an alarming magnitude are raging throughout Western Europe, upsetting the lives of millions of men... To a long and deadly winter succeeded a thaw conducive to floods. These calamities did not spare France, and it is in a Paris that the dreads of time do not leave to worry the population that Professor Mortimer disembarks. Concerned by these weather fluctuations and its disastrous consequences, his government commissioned him to determine its causes, and it is with this objective in mind that he goes to Jouy, to his old friend Professor Labrousse, director of the weather. But Mortimer is diverted from these exciting scientific concerns by an unfortunate affair: the unexplained disappearance of the taxi driver whom Labrousse had sent to search Mortimer at the station. In fact, Mortimer is the last to have seen him alive and becomes the main suspect of the police. Our bouillant Écosais decides to solve this new enigma, and counts on the help of Captain Blake, he also disappears from the path of the dark one, and disappears from the network of the dark one. He goes to the network of the MI5.
The evil trap where to find yourself trapped in time...
Great classic of the Drawing Strip, not to be missed. These two immortal heroes take us on adventures where intrigues cannot resist them...
The 3 Formulas of Professor Satō is an adventure left in two albums of comic strip of the series Blake and Mortimer created by Edgar P. Jacobs. This is the last chronological story with the sworn enemy because Olrik seems this time to die well in the explosion of his helicopter. The first volume was made by Edgar P. Jacobs and appeared during his lifetime while the second one contained only pencils of his hand. Thus the work interrupted by the lack of motivation and the health problems of Jacobs, remained unfinished and the readers had to wait for 13 years to know the epilogue. It was finished by Bob de Moor to be able to be published. A ryu, a dragon flying Japanese legends, causes a fatal accident with a military plane in the sky of Tokyo. This simple fact enough to awaken the curiosity of Mortimer, then on a conference tour in Kyoto, but here we successively try to remove it and then make it disappear. These events in appearance unbound, it is a possible to reproduce an electronic plane, and it is in fact a disaster of a possible Mortimer. The professor Satimer, on a conference tour in Kyoto, but here we try to remove it and make it disappear it disappear. These events in appearance to disappear. Sato reveals to him that the essence of his invention is three formulas, which he has taken the precaution to distribute to three different banks. Feeling threatened, he gives Mortimer the power of attorneys which will allow him, if necessary, to enter into possession of the famous documents. But Kim, Professor Sato's assistant, surprises this capital conversation and warns... Olrik, Blake's eternal opponent and Mortimer, who managed to bribe Sato's unscrupulous second. Mortimer, fearing Kim's betrayal and Olrik's involvement in all these events, warns his friend Blake to join him in Tokyo. But Olrik decided to take him by speed and fomented a diabolic plan to seize without a blow the three formulas: to use a robot in the image of Mortimer to deceive the banks, after having put the scientist out of his condition to harm...
Great classic of the Drawing Strip, must not miss. These two immortal heros lead us into adventures where the intrigues cannot resist them...Continued by Professor Sato's 3 Formulas.
The scandal broke out in the London press: there's a mole at the Intelligence Service! And now, in a photo taken by MI 5 agents, the mole has, without a shadow of doubt, Francis Blake's face!
Re-edition of "La Machination Voronov", 14th album of the cult series, published 4 years after the release of "L'Affaire Francis Blake". The triumvirat André Juillard for drawing, Yves Sente for the screenplay and Didier Convard for color takes us to Russia in the middle of the Cold War with a decor loaded with symbols such as the Kremlin or the base of Baikonur. On the program, spatial conquest and lots of espionage.
L'Etrange Rendez-Vous marks the great return of the most famous British comics in the world of science fiction and fantasy. Jean Van Hamme reconnects here with scientific extrapolations of the Secret of Espadon or the Yellow Mark and a Ted Benoît who masters more than ever the clear line initiated by E.P.Jacobs, the colors, faithful to the spirit of the series are beautifully realized by Madeleine DeMille. Attention Best-Seller guaranteed!
In Bombay, a young, fresh Scotsman from the University met a young sportsman from England who did not yet wear the mustache. Blake and Mortimer had no doubt that at that very moment they would tie the sons of a machination that would find its legacy in Brussels in 1958? While the Universal Exhibition was soon going to open its doors, a terrible threat lay on the world. The superpowerful electrical phenomena coming from where the various pavilions ravaged. First volume of a diptych, the new Blake and Mortimer Sente and Juillard would be a huge event.
While the opening of the Brussels Universal Exposition is compromised by the supernatural manifestations that ravage the various pavilions, Blake, Mortimer and Nasir are heading towards Antarctica in order to discover the mysterious origin of these terrible electric deluges. But they still ignore the terrible secret buried in the ice of the 6th Continent. A second breathtaking volume that closes in beauty the Indian adventure of the two most famous British heroes. We had left Brussels and the Universal Exposition ravaged by particularly disturbing electric phenomena. Believing that the source of this mystery could be at the South Pole, Blake, Mortimer and the faithful Nasir are heading towards the 6th continent. Mortimer wonders above all whether his route will again cross that of Açoka, the millennial Indian emperor, father of Gita, that who still lives in the heart of the Scotsian scientist? After a short stopover in South Africa, our heroes will climb aboard La Madeleine, and set the course towards Antarctica. In this territory, the fissionous and fisssionous self-image of the deserted and glacial character, they will also move back on a plane-like character.
Having brought back a mysterious rock from his expedition to the South Pole, Mortimer is soon put on the trail of a fantastic civilization whose cradle seems nestled in the entrails of the Ngorongoro crater, not far from Lake Victoria. Then begins a sumptuous African adventure that will lead for the first time our two heroes to Black Africa and Tanganyka (present-day Kenya and Tanzania). With this great return of the two most famous gentlemen of the comic strip, Yves Sente and André Juillard sign a thriller that will surprise and delight more than one lover of this mythical series and great adventure in general.
Mortimer has been invited to Greece to identify a disturbing archaeological discovery: the 30 deniers of Judas. Struggling with a curse anyone touches them, the pieces would be the physical manifestation of divine anger! Between bad hands, such an artifact would certainly lead to the fall of humanity. And, precisely, the FBI requires Blake's help from all urgency: Olrik has just escaped from the Jacksonville Penitentiary... If the sinister colonel is not at the origin of this bursting blow, the prospect of revenge of his enemy Mortimer will soon have made him convince him to participate in the theft of the 30 deniers. Theological fantasy or scientific reality, the danger is very real! For his return to Blake and Mortimer, eight years after Ls. Étranger Rendez-vous, Jean Van Hamme never strikes a big blow! As an experienced author, he immediately imposes his patte on this scenario with mystic resonances, which is not without recalling the rich hours of the "Mystery of the Great Pyramide's perfect return!'s real quest of the Engêgêgême's. Between the return of the fire of the fire of the two Engêgêgènes, and the new Engêgêgêgêg , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Judas sold Christ to the Romans for thirty pennies of money. Blake and Mortimer had to find them before they shed their blood again. Indeed, the former SS von Stahl was ready to do anything to seize the cursed pieces, convinced that their evil power would allow him to rule the world. To do so, he joined Olrik's services after having made him escape from his American prison. The elusive "colonel", more twisted than ever, was determined to avenge himself from his old opponents.
This new adventure of Blake and Mortimer leads our two heroes to Oxford. The Ashmolean Museum and its famous archaeological collection is the scene of unexplained flights to which are linked a series of equally mysterious murders. Such heroes of Agatha Christie, Blake and Mortimer lead the investigation. Yves Sente and André Juillard offer us an adventure in the purest tradition of British police novels.
This is an unpublished version of the Blake and Mortimer by Jean Dufaux and Antoine Aubin, assisted by Étienne Schréder. It's all Aubin's work that went through the microscope with the reproduction of the penciled boards in their original format. A true invitation to enter the cartoonist's workshop. This dive into Aubin's fantastic pencils reveals, in addition to the text proposals, the different cuts and framings of the edited version, all the precision, the thoroughness, the research and the requirement of the artist's work to slip into the steps of master E. P. Jacobs. An unpublished sketch book completes this superb edition of L'Onde Septimus. An unpublished version of L'Onde Septimus in pencil. The boards reproduced in the original format. The discovery of the workbook of a designer by Blake and Mortimer with 40 pages of additional sketches.
In Le Bâton de Plutarque, the 23rd account of the Adventures of Blake and Mortimer, Yves Sente and André Juillard imagine the first collaboration of the two heroes. The story takes place before Le Secret de l'Espadon, we are then in the spring of 1944... Captain Blake has just succeeded, at the command of a prototype of the Golden Rocket, in foiling a suicide attack against the English Parliament. A feat that he deserves to be recruited by the MI 6. His mission ? To make the Allies win the Second World War and prepare them for... the third! In a secret base of MI 6, Blake discovers that his partner is none other than Mortimer, his childhood friend. Dived into the heart of a vast affair of espionage and technological war between great powers, the two men will meet a strange and very unsympathetic Slavic language specialist, a certain Colonel Olrik... A volume 23 that offers a prequelle to the Adventures of Blake and Mortimer created by Jacobs, a great classic of the comics of adventure and Franco-Belgian espion.
"Our most British heroes are investigating the most British dramaturges: William Shakespeare of race! But who is he really? Between England and Italy, Philip Mortimer and Elizabeth, Sarah Summertown's daughter, solve more arduous puzzles than each other. Meanwhile, Francis Blake is investigating an organized band from Hyde Park. A race against the clock and serial revelations: a very big Blake and Mortimer signed by Yves Sente and André Juillard!"---
In Lhasa, the imperial palace of the dictator Basam-Damdu is destroyed by a squadron of Espadons, and the world, relieved, celebrates the end of the Third World War. While in neighbouring China the Mao Communists confront the nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek, the Lord of the Xi-Li War seeks to get hold of a manuscript that will allow him to sit down his power over the Middle Empire. In the face of threats to the region, Captain Francis Blake is in charge of organizing the defence of the British colony of Hong Kong. In London, Professor Philip Mortimer is led to pay close attention to a Chinese archaeological curiosity that arouses appetite and covetousness. At the same time, the famous Colonel Olrik, former fallen military adviser of Basam-Damdu, takes advantage of the chaos surrounding his services to General Xi-Li in order to satisfy his thirst for revenge...
Worried for Mortimer who was kidnapped by General Xi-Li's men, Captain Blake, accompanied by Chinese nationalist agent Ylang Ti, starts looking for his friend. Using the clues that Mortimer had the intelligence to sow on his way, they gradually go back the track that should lead them to him. For their part, Mortimer and Han-Dié, a nationalist archaeologist who betrayed his government to sell historical documents to General Xi-Li, are forcibly taken to the warlord's den. Mortimer takes advantage of this trip to learn more about the documents that will prove to Xi-Li that he is indeed the descendant and heir of Shi-Huangdi, the first emperor of China.... whose legend says he was taken to the end of his life in the Valley of Immortals.
In L'Onde Septimus, the threat of an extraterrestrial device, called Orpheus, had been thwarted by Olrik's sacrifice. Since then, the "Colonel" has been living in a psychiatric asylum. While Philip Mortimer tries to bring back his old adversary to reason, using the famous formula of the Sheik Abdel Razek ("By Horus, remains!"), he learns that there is another Orpheus. On board a cargo ship transformed into a secret laboratory, Mortimer discovers this strange pilot of this machine coming from elsewhere: an alien with a human form, dark and hieratic, to which the scientists have given the name of "Moloch", the biblical divinity. But the reactions of this Moloch, and the hieroglyphs that he leaves behind him like so many indecipherable messages, make fear the worst. This time again, the British capital is in danger. Unless Olrik again plays the heroes... With L'Onde Septimus 2, Jean Dufaux put a straight-up to the work of Christ's work, and heed-up to a scene with a character.
On a road from England, a car runs towards Hasley's military airport. On board, Major Rupert Humbletweed, who is in charge of a secret mission for the British government. At the Centaur Club in London, Captain Francis Blake diners from an overcooked roastbeef with his friend, Professor Philip Mortimer. He entrusts him with an operation of the utmost importance: going to Pakistan to modify the activation code of the Espadons stored at Makran's base, in order to allow their transfer to Scaw-Fell, England. Blake, who has just taken over the direction of MI 5, must then leave for the Ulster: according to one of his agents, the IRA would prepare a major plot against England... First screenwriter to have taken over the adventures of Blake and Mortimer, with L'Affaire Francis Blake, Jean Van Hamme imagines a continuation of the inaugural album of the series, Le Secret de l'Espadon, which he had discovered during his publication in the series "The Secret of the Espadon, which he had discovered during the works of the "Edecks by Peter's.
From Berlin to the Urals, from Geneva to London, between neuronal manipulations and international conspiracy, a "james-bondienne" adventure against the backdrop of cold war, espionage and drifts of science.
While protesting against the influx of new economic migrants, the group is in search of the legendary treasure of King Arthur and his famous sword, Excalibur. Blake is then sent to the site to dismantle the organization and prevent the sad plan of their leader, a certain "Grand Druid". At the same time, at the Center of Scientific and Industrial Research in London, Professor Mortimer presents one of his new revolutionary inventions: a pocket excavator, "La Taupe". To test the resistance of this technological prowess, the British press announces that "La Taupe" will be sent to the Cornwalls. In this new album, Blake and Mortimer have to foil the attacks of an independant group with the help of an inescapable and for the least unexpected... Colonel Olrik himself! But can we ever trust a "friend" of this acabit?
In charge of a government mission of the first importance, Philip Mortimer goes to Scotland to study ancient volcanic lands and test the viability of a geothermal installation. He thus finds himself in the first lodges of the terrible phenomena that then affect the whole North Sea: clouds of toxic gases and a gigantic tsunami ? all caused by unexplained explosions! The victims are countless... not to mention the mummified bodies of the Doggerland (the north sea bed) that go up to the surface at the end of 10,000 burial. The Daily Mail title: "What is going on in the North Sea? The impotent Yard!" It is time that Francis Blake joined Mortimer! While they are in the midst of underwater exploration, their submersible is damaged. They are trapped by characters whom they know only too well: Olrik, of course, but also Magon, the phulacontarque of the Atlantes! Taking advantage of an energy crisis that affects (also) the Nova-Atlantis, they will not be able to get back to the North, and finally destroy his life-saving mission without having found a great chance to escape from the North. He will not be able to get back to get back to the North.