Largo Winch is a young adventurer who discovers that he is the heir to Nerio Winch, a powerful billionaire and head of the W Group. Suddenly placed in charge of a vast financial empire, he must learn to navigate a world of boardrooms, international operations, manipulation, and economic rivalries. But Largo refuses to behave like a conventional executive: independent, impulsive, and often willing to take risks himself, he investigates the conspiracies threatening his group while trying to preserve his freedom and remain true to his own values.
Graphic novel
1990
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Largo Winch
- Dupuis Publisher
- Jean Van Hamme Writer
- Éric Giacometti Writer
- Philippe Francq Artist
Details
- Type
- Graphic novel
- Release
- 1990
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Volumes
- 25
- Status
- Ongoing
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- 8 octobre 2026
Synopsis
Largo Winch
Albums
Albums (25)
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Album 1
Unjustly arrested in Istanbul, Largo is sent to the worst prison in Turkey. In the midst of bullies who, prisoners as guards, know only the language of violence. Largo manages to escape, in the company of Simon Ovronnaz, a friendly Swiss thief trapped, like him, in this hell. They find refuge at the consul of Great Britain, whose lovely daughter, Charity, and an equally pretty girlfriend will take care, in their own way, to make them forget their misfortunes. But in the meantime, Turkish politicians have understood the mistake they had made by locking up the heir of Group W. They decide to erase all traces thanks to the dreadful "Section K". The massacre will begin...
Album 2
Largo Winczlav became Largo Winch, and he discovered that there might be worse hell than Turkish prisons: that of high finance. And sharks that surround him at the Board of Directors of Group W, some of which were waiting for the slightest false step on his part to start the curé. One of them, especially, the one who had him imprisoned. Who did not hesitate to kill for it. And of which Largo knows that he is ready to do anything to seize power. Ready to kill, again and again.
Album 3
A real secret war for power takes place behind the scenes of the major financial groups. One of the most used assault techniques is the Public Purchase Offer: an amateur intends to acquire at a fixed price all the available shares of a competitor to get control of it. Group W, attacked by FENICO, a conglomerate of companies led by Gus Fenimore, a friendly old fox of financial acrobatics, replica by an O.P.A. on his company.
Album 4
Without family or ties, protestors, runners, vagabonds, iconoclasts and brawlers, he finds himself, at twenty-six years old, at the head of an empire of ten billion dollars... Discover Largo Winch, the blue jeans billionaire. And tie your belts!
Album 5
While during a worldly cocktail Largo Winch announces the creation of a foundation to help the children of war, a hotel master brings to him on a stage the "surprise of the chief": the head of one of his collaborators, murdered by the drug traffickers he was trying to expose. This is only the beginning of an odious machination that will, in a few hours, completely change the life of the businessman.
Album 6
Two detectives of the judicial police who take Largo Winch (see "H") are shot down in front of his eyes and he is accused of murder; the DEA, the American narcotics brigade, accuses him of being wet to the eyebrows in a vast network of heroin trafficking. The hunter is admirably mounted! Refugeed under the bridges of Paris in the midst of the crooks, without money, Largo Winch has no chance of escaping the fate that awaits him: the forced labors for life...
Album 7
Being Largo Winch's best friend does not always present only advantages! Remarked by the secret services of the Union of Myanmar (ex-Republic of Burma), Simon Ovronnaz and his new conquest, Inspector Marjan Texel, are abusively captured and imprisoned, accused of murder. Following a parody of trials, Simon is sentenced to death and led into the impregnable fortress of Maliking...Known by the fate of his friend, Largo plays the pretty hearts on the roof of the world while spreading around him a new web of deadly spider...
Album 8
Sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, Simon Ovronnaz, Largo Winch's friend, is transferred to the fortress of Makiling, Burma. At the moment when Largo, accompanied by Kadjang, one of the leaders of the rebellion chan against the dictatorship of Rangoon, arrives in the Burmese capital, Simon has only sixteen hours to live. Attacking the fortress? It is impossible mission. Largo has a bold and risky plan, but he has no choice. A real race against death is committed...
Album 9
Venice, 3 o'clock in the morning. A man is being chased and only has time to send a fax to Largo before he dies, sifted with bullets: 'Take care of the Doge and...' Carnival can begin..." Don't miss the ninth episode of this flagship series!
Album 10
An actor committed to a mysterious mission, a man riddled with bullets, a certain Marchini ready to do anything so that a fax never arrives to his recipient...The masked men's ball is just beginning but Winch is leading the dance!
Album 11
Simon Ovronnaz, Largo's friend, star of a TV show! His picture at the front of the "people" magazines! For the interested person, there's enough to bomb the torso and pavan. For Largo, there's something to ask. An insipid scenario, a dubious casting, an out-of-the-box budget and funding, this show smells like a scam full of noses. Direction San Francisco, the location of the shooting. Under the sunlights Simon makes the wheel. Behind the scenes, Largo leads the investigation.
Album 12
The cases go badly for the W. Largo Group is in prison, accused of rape and kidnapping that he did not commit. He has cellmate number 2 of the Group, Cochrane, trapped by the I.R.S. for fraud. While Sarah Washington, of the "Networks" division, is tortured in a cellar invaded by rats, waiting to play the role of the hero of a "snuff movie"! And to say that all this started with a TV show, entitled "Shadow" with Simon Ovronnaz in the lead role.
Album 13
Largo Winch is the guest of the famous TV show "The Price of Money". Journalists ask him about globalization, buy-outs and other corporate mergers. After general considerations, they come to a specific case: Speed One, recently bought by the W Group, has just announced the dismissal of two thousand five hundred workers. Surprised to be trained on this field, Largo marks the blow. One of the journalists then makes enter the stage, Dennis Tarrant, the director of one of the four production sites of Speed One. And this is the drama. Live, in front of millions of viewers, Tarrant lodges a bullet in the head. Largo is immediately designated by a part of the press and opinion, as the responsible for the death of the desperate. It is then June, Tarrant's daughter, who accuses him. For the billionaire beau adventurer, trouble begins.
Album 14
Speed One, an American sports equipment company owned mainly by Group W, has had to relocate four production sites to stop the fall in the price of its stock on the stock exchange. If the financial balance is remarkable, the human balance is heavy: two thousand and five hundred workers dismissed, a director putting an end to his days and an accountant murdered.
Album 15
A debt is a debt. Beijing. Ministry of the General Administration of Civil Aviation. The aeronautical division of Group W, represented by André Bellecourt, is about to conclude a joint venture with the Tsai Industries. This alliance would allow the division, in difficulty for several years, to fear more serenely its future. But there is still a whim of Mr. Tsai Huang to satisfy to confirm the agreement: invite Largo Winch in person to sign the documents. The hiccup is that Largo is unreachable. Our hero has temporarily discharged from his obligations and lives cut off from the world in a secret place. Only Simon knows how to contact him. Dwight Cochrane the sum to warn his boss that the future of the group is at stake and that it is imperative that he be in Hong Kong in less than ten days. Largo will accept to return to China, even where a few years earlier he has experienced the worst debunks? An old debt contracted in Burma and that remembers his bad memory.
Album 16
Hong Kong. The aeronautical division of the W group, represented by André Bellecourt, concludes the joint venture agreement with the Tsai Industries Corp. The Chinese had expressed the wish that Largo Winch himself sign the contracts. But the young billionaire having no longer given sign of life since he left the island of Tsai Huang, they mourned this whim. For the executives of the W group, Largo was probably the victim of a shipwreck or a kidnapping by pirates. For his faithful friend Simon, whose instinct of trundle him rarely, it smells like a blow. For Tsai Huang finally, the question does not even arise: he knows well that Largo Winch is in one of his prisons. With the way and virtue, Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq conclude in master way the diptych started a year earlier with The Three Eyes of the Tao Guards. The authors have parachuted their billionaire hero and burlingonongues in China and in Hong Kong, sometimes with the West, in an adventure of the best methods.
Album 17
Do we still present Largo Winch, the most popular billionaire adventurer of the Franco-Belgian comic book? On this twentieth anniversary of the creation of the series praised by millions of readers, we have been able to rediscover all the adventures of Largo in eight diptyques collector. This new opus of the series is a brilliant continuation of the story of Largo Winch's detangles with the worst craps of the contemporary era. With the sense of the narrative that characterizes him, Jean van Hamme encamps the fabric of this new adventure in the arcanes of arms trafficking and international terrorism. Of course, we find the recurring characters of the series, which appeared in the course of the volumes, as well as the legendary humour and de-involence of this hero of modern times, to which Philippe Francq's drawing gives intense life.
Album 18
False heir or true hidden child? Largo Winch faced the revenge of a woman. Involved in spite of him in a case of arms trafficking and international terrorism, Largo Winch had no choice but to distort the company of the FBI agents launched in his pursuits. What awaits him, in the troubled waters of the Black Sea, offers an unexpected face: that of a woman determined to revenge. And at the strong price, preferably. Is there still Largo Winch, the most popular billionaire adventurer of the Franco-Belgian comic book? This new opus of the series closes a diptych that explores a slope until then little approached: the past of Nerio Winch and a possible hidden fatherhood. With the meaning of the story that characterizes him, Jean van Hamme encamps the fabric of this new adventure in the archanes of arms trafficking and international terrorism, to better surprise us on an unexpected terrain. We find of course the recurring characters of the series, appearing on the threads of the tomes, as well as the humor and the deceptiveness of the modern hero Philippe, to which gives us the time of life.
Album 19
Accompanied by Dwight Cochrane, Miss Pennywinkle and Silky, Largo Winch went to London to preside over the Big Board of Group W, where he hoped to convince Laurent Draillac, a French aircraftman, to conclude a joint venture with his group's aeronautical branch. On the programme: meetings of work and relaxation. But quickly, the situation became corse. While a wind of madness was blowing on Cochrane and Pennywinkle, real threats were on Largo's destiny, which had become the stakes of a terrible poker game. Dijihadist terrorists, double agents and spies were working around him a deadly canvas that was occupied, in its centre, by the beautiful Said. But what happens when, against all expectations, the one who had to die and the one who had to kill him fell in love with each other? A new machiavelically chiseled by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, who made all our certaintys shatter.
Album 20
Chassé-Croise had left the humanist billionaire Largo Winch at the center of an insoluble riddle, and the spirit occupied by the memory of his beautiful missing woman. Saide, the sublime triple agent he had suddenly fallen in love with is still held captive by the CIA, and the trap around Winch narrows gradually. During the big board, the great meeting that brings together all its presidents, the bomb hidden in the base of the statue that decorates the last floor will explode, and it will be finished by Largo, the group and its ambition of a capitalism with a human face... Unless perhaps so Saidée manages to escape and makes the choice to listen to her feelings rather than the pressures she is under on all sides. Twenty seconds therefore majestically close this diptych to the complex and finely established scenario, in which the businessman baroudeur sees his heart finally opened. An adventure full of suspense, at the crossroads between the espion novel and the romantic drama.
Album 21
New York. The Dow Jones's values are falling free, causing a loss of more than $1,000 billion, before going up just as dramatically. All eyes immediately turn to Mary Striker, a trader for the Winch Group, considered responsible for what appears to be an unprecedented manipulation of courses on which the FBI and the SEC are rushing to investigate. Yucatan. This incident is not made to arrange Largo's affairs. He still ignores these facts when he presents himself at the Talos forum with Cathy Blackman to raise funds for the Winch Foundation for War Children. These sudden accusations, that vehement demonstrations are avenging, arise as he prepares to make heavy decisions for the future of his Group.
Album 22
The supercomputer Jonas, responsible for the operations that plunged the Chicago Stock Exchange into a resounding flash crash, closed down on Largo Winch and the tradeuse Mary Stricker. In this overheated server, would it be the end of their investigation? Yet, this is nothing to do with the theft of the ten shares of the Winch group when they were transferred under high surveillance from the bank of Lucerne, Switzerland. Pope, implacable antagonist to methods similar to those of Igor Maliakov, seized it in order to give them to the Russian oligarch who swore the loss of Largo. Against these titles, which represent the $50 billion of W company, this one demands a ransom that the young director cannot ignore. But can he really negotiate under the threat of his enemies?
Album 23
On an incognito visit to a tin mine in Indonesia, Largo Winch discovers with amazement that one of his own subsidiaries uses children to supply essential components to our smartphones. A discovery that encourages the billionaire to move the W group towards a more ethical and greener economy, without however neglecting advanced technologies, especially space markets, whether it be satellites or the cleaning of waste in orbit. Largo Winch will thus cross the road of Jarod and Demetria Manskind, young and great entrepreneurs with morals and detonating ideas, who do not miss an opportunity to mock him in the media. A meeting that will be the prelude to serious trouble, including a space flight that could very badly turn... For in the shadows work mysterious killers with uncertain motivations. The world of the economy changes. But not the way some criminals do business... After a first diptych plebiscité by the public, Eric Giacometti and Philippe Francq return with a Largo more than ever before with its phase of the green economy, where he is living with his own state of the way, where he is a new technology, where he has been in the same time.
Album 24
If he survives the orbital flight sabotaged by We Blue's activists, Largo Winch will have to investigate the dark affairs around an Indonesian tin mine. The conclusion of an explosive diptych! While Largo and the whimsical entrepreneur Jarod Manskind carry out an orbital flight, WeBlue's alterglobalist activists take control of the shuttle and rush it to Earth! Largo, who was refocusing his group's activities towards more ethical activities, will not have time to complete his formidable project, including the closure of an Indonesian mine employing children... A mine around which are concentrated major financial and political interests gradually discovered by Simon Ovronnaz.
Volume 25 — If the gods abandon you...
The island of Sarjevane. It is there, in this secret haven of the Adriatic inherited from his father, that Largo Winch decided to blow. Until the moment when the arrival of a yacht draws him from his loneliness. On board: Obi Martins, founder of Aurora Dynamics and designer of drones with humanitarian aims. The reason for his arrival? Mysterious, because Martins is murdered before even docking! But what the killer did not know was that Obi had come with Hope, his young daughter. And the latter is now under the protection of Largo. He is stubborn, scared and courageous, she will remind the billionaire of a certain teenager: the one he was! Together, the unexpected duo will go to Nigeria and then India, to meet the aunts of Hope, who now lead Aurora Dynamics. But do they still respect the humanitarian philosophy of the late Obi Martins?