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 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 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...

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 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 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 - Volume 21 - Plutarch's Staff

Author: Yves Sente
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187371
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
1944. England is still locked in a struggle to the death with Nazi Germany. But already a new threat looms among the peaks of the Himalayas. For now, though, Squadron Leader Blake, having saved London from a German prototype, is assigned to a top secret mission, during which he meets with an old friend he hasn’t seen since India: Philip Mortimer. Soon, the pair are introduced to an officer working for Allied Intelligence: Colonel Olrik...

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 ...