Blake & Mortimer - Volume 5 - The Strange Encounter

Author: Jean Van Hamme
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849185646
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer’s forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-coloured light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 1 - The Yellow M

Author: P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849189374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
London’s walls resound with the incredible exploits of the “Yellow Mark.” The spectacular actions of this mysterious criminal are on the increase: holding up the Bank of England, robbing the imperial crown... No one seems able to stop him. He is so audacious that he lets the police know in advance where he will commit his crimes, each time ridiculing Scotland Yard a little more. The apparent ease with which he evades police schemes begins to worry the highest authorities of the country. The Home Office asks Captain Francis Blake to solve the mystery and discover the identity of the man who hides behind the Yellow Mark. The captain immediately takes as partner his old friend, Professor Philip Mortimer, whose scientific knowledge will be invaluable in solving this extremely complex enigma. Who hides behind the Yellow Mark?

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 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 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 ...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 19 - The time trap

Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849188688
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Professor Mortimer is bequeathed an old house in France by a former adversary: Miloch, the evil genius of SOS Meteors fame. Along with the house is a letter inviting the Briton, as the only man of worthy intellect, to discover a fabulous invention left behind by the departed. Following recorded instructions, Mortimer activates the device ... and wakes up a hundred million years in the past! Thus begins an incredible odyssey through time...

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 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...

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 ...