Blake & Mortimer - Volume 7 - The Affair of the Necklace

Author: P. Jacobs
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849185662
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
A necklace that used to belong to Marie Antoinette, the last French queen before the French Revolution, turns up in the hands of a British collector who decides to present it to Queen Elizabeth. Blake and Mortimer’s sworn enemy Olrik, about to be tried in Paris, manages to escape and steals the precious piece of jewellery in front of their very noses during a glittering reception in the French capital. The affair threatens to turn into a full-blown diplomatic incident, especially since Olrik is doing his best to embarrass Blake and Mortimer by tipping off the press about his every move.

Blake & Mortimer - Volume 9 - The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent (Part 1)

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Philip Mortimer spent his youth in the land of the Maharajas. He loves India, but his last visit there did not end well. Now, many years later, the famous Professor Mortimer is in charge of the British pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exposition. When strange phenomena begin disrupting preparations, Mortimer and his friend Blake set off on a trail that will take them to the sixth continent—to confront an old and unexpected enemy.

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 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 11 - The Gondwana Shrine

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849185689
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
Several months after their adventures in Antarctica, Blake and Mortimer are back in England. Still somewhat shaken after his ordeal, the professor is ordered by his doctor to get some rest. In typical Mortimer fashion, he decides to spend his holidays in Africa... looking for a lost civilisation! Accompanied by Nastasia Wardynska and an old flame of his, he begins tracking down a culture that is older than any ever recorded—but someone is dogging their every step...

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 - 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 - 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 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?