Blake & Mortimer – serie

In this eighth volume of the Complete Collection, the next Blake & Mortimer written - in two parts - by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by three different artists, brings the reader along on one of Professor Mortimer's favourite activities: archaeology - and if there are echoes of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade in The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver, the story is all the better for it. For the third album collected in this volume, The Oath of the Five Lords, the style is more Agatha Christie, with a thriller set in the heart of England that reveals some dark aspects of Captain Blake's career as a spy - giving the character more depth and credibility. Finally, the bonus material goes over the difficulties encountered to produce the first two albums in great detail.

This seventh volume of the Complete Collection collects three albums created by the team of Yves Sente and Andre Juillard. In the two-parter The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, the authors boldly begin to add touches of modernity to the series. They reveal some of the characters' youth, including their fateful first encounter in India, before taking them on an adventure from the Brussels Universal Exposition to the icy wastes of Antarctica! As for the sequel, The Gondwana Shrine, it will lead them to Africa on a search for a lost world - in the company, this time, of memorable female characters. Finally, the bonus material offers fascinating insights into the authors' creative process.

A group demanding the independence of Cornwall has committed several attacks in Britain. Captain Blake, tasked with securing the site of an official visit by Prince Charles in Cornwall, must contend with the locals' sympathies towards the secessionists and their leader, a mysterious High Druid. Meanwhile, Professor Mortimer is about to test his latest invention, a revolutionary excavator - in Cornwall. And as for Olrik, his new cellmates have a pronounced ... Cornish accent!

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...

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...

An enemy's vengeance from the grave traps Mortimer out of time. 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...Captain Francis Blake, dashing head of England's MI5. Professor Philip Mortimer, world-renowned nuclear physicist. The most distinguished duo of gentleman-adventurers, battling the forces of evil and their arch nemesis Olrik around the globe, below the earth, even across time itself...The 19th adventure of Her Majesty's finest protectors!

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 Captain Francis Blake, dashing head of England s MI5. Professor Philip Mortimer, world-renowned nuclear physicist. The most distinguished duo of gentleman-adventurers, battling the forces of evil and their arch nemesis Olrik around the globe, below the earth, even across time itself... The 22nd adventure of Her Majesty s finest protectors!

Time for Captain Blake to enter the scene and face ...Robo-Mortimer! Professor Sato, who hasmade incredible advances in the field of cybernetics, has been kidnapped byOlrik. A cautious man, Sato had revealed to Professor Mortimer the hiding placeof the three formulae that govern his discoveries, and asked him to protectthem if need be. Unfortunately, Mortimer is eventually captured as well, andOlrik 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...