Blake & Mortimer - Volume 15 -The secret of the swordfish

Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186790
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
In a past almost, but not entirely, like ours, the world lives in dread of a new power, an empire centred in Tibet and led by a megalomaniac. When the inevitable attack comes, it destroys all opposition, and capital cities across the planet are left burning. But, in Great Britain, Professor Mortimer, inventor of a mysterious weapon named the Swordfish, and his friend and protector Captain Blake, have escaped the destruction, and must make their way to a secret base...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 16 - The Secret of the Sworfish (Part 2)

Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187444
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Fleeing the devastation of World War III, Blake, Mortimer and Nasir have been trying to reach a secret base with the blueprints for a new weapon, the Swordfish. But the forces of the Yellow Empire are hot on their trail, and soon Mortimer is captured. While Blake works tirelessly at coordinating the various resistance movements on the planet, the professor is forced to endure captivity, threats and torture from their eternal enemy, Olrik.

Blake & Mortimer 25 - The Valley of the Immortals

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187681
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
World War Three is over. Basam Damdu has been defeated. England can breathe and begin the rebuilding process ... or so it thinks. In China, unfortunately, Mao’s Communists keep bowling over Chiang Kai-shek’s troops, and are threatening Hong Kong. And General Xi-Lee, a ruthless warlord, has dreams of becoming the new Qin Shi Huang – first Emperor of China. When a relic of that very emperor is discovered by an acquaintance of Mortimer, things take a turn for the worst ...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 18 - The Oath of the Five Lords

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849188947
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
1919. Colonel Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia – has an unpleasant meeting with an MI5 agent who confiscates his manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 35 years later, Oxford is shaken by a series of burglaries at the Ashmolean Museum, at the same time as Blake learns of the death of an old friend. The captain begins an investigation, while Mortimer looks into the thefts... But what dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake’s own past?

Blake & Mortimer - The Last Swordfish - Volume 28

Author: Jean Van Hamme
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449305
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Several months after the end of the Third World War – won thanks to the Swordfishes, the formidable jet bombers designed by Professor Mortimer – England is dismantling its base in the Makran, from which the final counter-attack was launched, and where the surviving airplanes are still kept. But in the shadows, devious schemes are being hatched, and while Mortimer is busy preparing his Swordfishes for repatriation, Blake is in Ireland, where rumour has it the IRA has some sinister plans – and even worse allies ...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 26 - The Valley of the immortals, Part 2

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186138
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Mortimer is brought to the camp of General Li Hsi, the Chinese warlord, where he is reunited with a seriously injured Nasir. The professor was kidnapped in order to recover the archaeological proof of the general’s imperial lineage, but also to repair the Red Wing, a formidable combat aircraft Olrik unwittingly delivered. While Blake moves heaven and earth to find him and protect Hong Kong, Mortimer escapes to go in search of the only thing that can save Nasir: a legendary pearl ...

Before Blake & Mortimer - Volume 2 - The Fiery Arrow

Author: Jean Van Hamme
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800448058
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
The Marduk expedition has returned victorious to Norlandia, bearing a precious sample of Uradium. Now the professor can test his revolutionary U Ray’s potency when combined with the miracle ore. But Austradia, the old enemy, won’t take this lying down. So the dastardly Captain Dagon didn’t succeed in stopping Marduk from finding the Uradium deposit? No matter! The Imperial Austradian Army will simply take possession of it in a military operation – and who cares if that’s where Prince Nazca’s people live? The eminent Professor Marduk is tasked by the High Council of Norlandia with militarising a major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However, doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power the ray. And the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago. An expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the Austradian intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act ...

Blake & Mortimer - The Call of the Moloch

Author: Jean Dufaux
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449712
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Tasked by the queen to close the ‘Septimus Wave’ case once and for all, Captain Blake is facing a daunting task, for many questions remain unanswered. Where did the spaceship buried beneath London come from? What became of Lady Rowana and Professor Evangely? Meanwhile, Mortimer is trying to pull Olrik out of the catatonic state the villain has been in since his encounter with the ship’s occupant. Has the threat to the nation truly been vanquished?

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 20 - The Septimus Wave

Author: Jean Dufaux
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849184925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
It’s been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the evil of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important figures of the capital’s jet set come together around the questionable values the mad scientist defended. Olrik is forced to resort to opium in order to forget he was guinea pig. As for Mortimer, he too is trying, albeit for more humanist reasons, to revive certain aspects of Septimus’s work – to Blake’s extreme concern...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 24 - The Testament of William S.

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186952
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
In Venice, a boating accident leads to the discovery of a 400 year old text bearing the signature ‘W.S.’ and promising the truth about the ‘Shakespeare mystery’. That very night, someone tries unsuccessfully to steal the precious document. The discoverer, Marquis Stefano Da Spiri, decides to send a copy of the document to a specialist of the Bard in London for stylistic authentication. As for the original, he entrusts it to an old comrade in arms from WW2: Captain Francis Blake...