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1913, Pacific Ocean. On the eve of the First World War, Corto Maltese joins the Moine, the mysterious leader of a band of "pirates" with whom, from the hidden island of Escondida, he will engulf the mythical seas of the south. 20 years after the disappearance of Hugo Pratt, and as the release of the new adventure of his romantic pirate (early October), a new public edition of the original series!
1915, in the Caribbean. Corto Maltese joins in friendship with Tristan Bantam, a young Englishman a little naive, Steiner, former professor at the University of Prague and Bouche Dorée, the voodoo priestess who already seems to know everything about him! New color edition. Synopsis collapsed
central meric, 1917. Corto Maltese sails in troubled waters: a revolution in a banana republic, a trial for witchcraft on a lost island, and even slave traders, crossed at the bottom of the Peruvian jungle. New edition in colour. Synopsis collapsed
Europe 1917. As the war continues, spies and traitors are more dangerous than ever. From Venice bombarded to Ireland in full revolt, to Stonehenge and its spells, Corto Maltese has a hard time getting out of it... New edition in colors.
1918, East Africa. Corto Maltese joins forces with Crush, the danakil warrior, to cross this region where colonial powers and indigenous beliefs clash in a merciless fight. New edition in colors.
Asia, 1919. Corto Maltese and Rasputine set out on a treasure hunt on behalf of a Chinese secret society. It is an armored train filled with gold, to fight with the warlords, white Russians and other Mongolian revolutionaries.
Venice, 1920. Corto Maltese is looking for an emerald with mysterious powers. But he is not the only one in this quest, the jewel also sparking the lust of fascists and even of certain Freemasons...
Anatolia, 1921. What attracts Corto Maltese on the ancient silk road, through an empire in full chaos? Find Alexander the Great's treasure or free Rasputine from his Ottoman prison?
Manchuria, 1904. Corto Maltese is not yet 17 when, in the midst of the Russian-Japanese war, his friend Jack London asked him to help escape a young Russian deserter named Rasputine.
Buenos Aires, 1923. It is revenge that brings Corto Maltese back to Argentina, where one of her friends was murdered. He intends to discover the responsible ones, and whatever their importance in the local mafia, punish them in his way...
Switzerland, 1924. Invited by his friend Steiner to a meeting of alchemists, Corto Maltese is still lost in his initiatory readings. Diving in the middle of a dream, he must, between macabre dance and diabolical process, discover the source of eternal life: the Holy Grail!
South Pacific, 1925. Corto Maltese finds Rasputine, Steiner, Tristan Bantam and Bouche Dorée to explore an unknown island, which would contain one of the last entrances to the engulfed continent of Mu, also known as Atlantis.
1915. Corto Maltese crosses the frozen expanses of the great north, between the United States and Canada. He carries a message that his friend Jack London sends to a youthful love.
It was in Venice, in 1911, that we met Corto with a journalist from the National Geographic, Aida Treat, who wished to make his portrait. He was then on the track of a mysterious artifact, The Mirror of Priest John. His investigation quickly directed him to Alexandria. During the crossing, he met a beautiful German of Somali origin, Ferida Schnitzer, and his chaperone, the imposing Sister Lise. Arriving in Egypt, where he rescued Winston Churchill from an attack by the nationalists, he decided to embark with Henry de Monfreid for Zanzibar, where he hoped to find the trace of the mirror in a famous slave trafficker.Then he would sink into the jungles of equatorial Africa in search of Ferida's father, a German explorer who had disappeared in the area some twenty years earlier.
Tasmania, autumn 1912. Corto and Rasputine free a young man, Calaboose, imprisoned on an abandoned island. They take him with them through the Indian Ocean to Borneo, where they meet the Sultan of Sarawak, an English potentate, who reigns over the exploitation of the hevea by the natives. This natural resource is indispensable to the British Empire and the revolt that rumbles among the Dayaks threatens the interests of the crown. Corto finds himself playing the mediators and taking under his wing a young paralytic, Ratu "the mermaid", of which Calaboose falls in love. Corto and his friends then take the direction of the South Pacific and the island of Escondida, to find there the sponsor of their mission, the mysterious Monk, who has a very specific idea as to the future of the couple of lovebirds...
Fall 1924, Corto had to find his friend Steiner in Berlin. But when he arrived in the German capital, he discovered that his friend had been murdered! He then launched an investigation to find his murderer, and to obtain, if not justice, at least revenge. But the fragile Weimar republic is already on the brink of civil war, between communist spies and secret society of far right, and they all seem to want to prevent him from achieving his ends...
At the end of the 1920s, Corto Maltese was in Mexico, on a new mission for Bouche Dorée. He had to negotiate a lot of Mayan antiquities with an unscrupulous archaeologist. But, as always, nothing was going to happen as planned and our sailor found himself forced to transport a load of weapons for Christeros, these Catholic revolts fighting against the Republican government and its new anti-clerical laws. He would find among them two of his old acquaintances, Rasputine who had joined the orders, and Banshee O'Dannan, the Irish revolutionary.