Blake & Mortimer - Volume 22 - Professor Sato's Three Formulae (Part 1)

Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187177
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
One evening in Tokyo, air traffic controllers detect an unknown flying object and send two aircraft to intercept and identify it. However, the fighters’ last message before they crash into each other is ‘ryu’ – dragon! The whole business has deeply upset Professor Sato Akira, and he calls upon his friend Mortimer, who can always be counted upon for good advice. But before he’s even received the invitation, Mortimer is already targeted by men hell bent on getting rid of him...

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 23 - Professor Sato's Three Formulae (Part 2)

Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187150
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Professor Sató, who has made incredible advances in the field of cybernetics, has been kidnapped by Olrik. A cautious man, Sató had revealed to Professor Mortimer the hiding place of the three formulae that govern his discoveries, and asked him to protect them if need be. Unfortunately, Mortimer is eventually captured as well, and Olrik makes a robotic copy of him to retrieve the formulae. Now, though, Captain Blake is coming to Japan, hell bent on finding his old friend...

Before Blake & Mortimer - Volume 1 - The U Ray

Author: P. Edgar Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 180044818X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Before Blake & Mortimer, Edgar P. Jacobs had created a first comic that has now attained mythical status – The U Ray. Here it is now, finally translated into English. The nation of Norlandia is in conflict with its powerful rival Austradia. 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 ...

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 - 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 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 29 - Eight Hours in Berlin

Author: José-Louis Bocquet
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800448422
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
1963. As Professor Mortimer is invited to the USSR by an old archaeologist friend to join in the search for the lost city of Arkaim in the Urals, Captain Blake goes to Switzerland for an important conference between the intelligence services of the Western Powers, in order to prepare for the top-secret Operation Prince in Berlin. Berlin where a West German agent was just shot trying to cross the Wall back from East Germany, uttering a single word before dying: doppelgänger ...

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...