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The Secret of the Swordfish, Part 1: The Incredible Chase
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1950
It is 1946. In a past almost, but not entirely, like ours, the world lives in dread of a new power, an empire centered 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...
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The Secret of the Swordfish, Part 2: Mortimer's Escape
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1953
It is 1946. 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.
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The Secret of the Swordfish, Part 3: SX1 Strikes Back
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1953
It is 1946. The captain and the professor have finally made it to the secret base with the Swordfish blueprints, and construction has begun on the extraordinary machines. Olrik hasn’t had his last word, though, and he is ready to take tremendous risks to locate the world’s last bastion of resistance and freedom. A race against time is on between Imperial forces on one side and Mortimer’s teams of engineers on the other... The fate of civilisation is at stake.
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The Mystery of the Great Pyramid, Part 1: The Papyrus of Manethon
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1954
It is 1950. Professor Mortimer travels to Egypt where there has been an exciting new discovery concerning the long lost chamber of Horus. Other parties are also very interested, including an eccentric German collector of Egyptology and an old enemy.
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The Mystery of the Great Pyramid, Part 2: The Chamber of Horus
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1955
It is 1950. Mortimer survives more attempts on his life and the lost chamber of Horus is rediscovered.
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The Yellow 'M'
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1956
The year is 1953. An audacious criminal is terrifying London, committing seemingly perfect crimes and leaving his signature of a yellow M in chalk. Despite announcing his targets, he seems unstoppable, and he's now turned to kidnapping.
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Atlantis Mystery
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1957
The year is 1955. Deep under Sao Miguel island, rumored to be the last emerging part of Atlantis, Professor Mortimer has discovered samples of a mysterious radioactive metal. Could it be the Atlanteans’ legendary orichalcum? When he and his friend Blake set out on an expedition into the depths to find out, sabotage occurs in the form of their old opponent Olrik. And soon, all three will be embroiled in a power struggle far bigger in scope than they could have imagined.
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S.O.S. Meteors
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1959
The year is 1958. Extreme weather threatens Europe. When France calls on Mortimer to help solve this enigma, he goes to visit Professor Labrousse, chief French meteorologist. After the driver Labrousse sends to pick up Mortimer disappears, our friend is the prime suspect. Mortimer contacts Captain Blake to help him with this tricky situation. Then Blake disappears. Mortimer and Labrousse have two missing-person cases to investigate. They soon discover that the disappearances are linked to the climatic catastrophes.
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The Time Trap
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1962
The year is 1958. 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…
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The Affair of the Necklace
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1967
The year is 1964. Blake and Mortimer travel to Paris for the trial of their old enemy Olrik, but he escapes as they arrive. The pair are soon involved in a complicated plot featuring the theft of Marie Antoinette's necklace, recently restored to its former luminence.
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Professor Sato's Three Formulae, Part 1: Mortimer in Tokyo
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist)
Copyright: 1977
The year is 1967. 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…
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Professor Sato's Three Formulae, Part 2: Mortimer versus Mortimer
Contributors: Edgar P. Jacobs (writer and artist), Bob de Moor (artist)
Copyright: 1990
The year is 1967. 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…
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The Francis Blake Affair
Contributors: Jean Van Hamme (writer), Ted Benoit (artist)
Copyright: 1996
The year is 1954. There's a suspected mole within MI5, and it very much seems as if Francis Blake is the man. Both he and Mortimer have to leave the comforts of their London homes to clear his name.
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The Voronov Plot
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Juillard (artist)
Copyright: 2000
The year is 1956. A Soviet rocket falls back to Earth carrying deadly bacteria. KGB Professor Voronov turns the extraterrestrial threat into a terrifying weapon that could be used to devastate the Western world–but he doesn’t take into account the vigilance of Her Majesty’s intelligence services. Soon, Blake and Mortimer are drawn into a lethal, shadowy war, from Moscow to London, where the stakes are no less than international peace and the real enemy may not be so obvious.
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The Strange Encounter
Contributors: Jean Van Hamme (writer), Ted Benoit (artist)
Copyright: 2001
The year is 1954. The corpse of an 18th century redcoat known to have disappeared under strange circumstances turns up in Colorado in 1954 in perfect condition. It's the starting point for an adventure that could destroy the world.
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The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Part 1: The Global Threat
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Julliard (artist)
Copyright: 2003
The year is 1958. 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.
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The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Part 2: Battle of the Spirits
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Julliard (artist)
Copyright: 2004
The year is 1958. vBlake, Mortimer and Nasir are en route to Antarctica, hoping to locate Olrik and his Indian and KGB allies and to stop his attack on the Brussels Universal Exposition. Little do they know that their old adversary isn’t the one in charge this time. In the frozen wasteland of the sixth continent, Mortimer will be reunited with an old acquaintance and solve the enigma of his younger days—at a terrible price.
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The Gondwana Shrine
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Julliard (artist)
Copyright: 2008
The year is 1958. 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 civilization! 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…
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The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver, Part 1: The Scroll of Nicodemus
Contributors: Jean Van Hamme (writer), Rene Sterne (artist), Chantal De Spiegeleer (artist)
Copyright: 2009
The year is 1954. In Pennsylvania, Olrik escapes a federal prison by helicopter after a bloody attack. With Blake forced to cut short his holidays at the news, a disappointed Mortimer turns his attention to Greece, where an earthquake has uncovered an ancient chapel. Before long, people are trying to kill Mortimer over a mysterious Roman silver coin. Could the long-lost relic be one of the 30 denarii paid to Judas for his betrayal of Jesus? And who exactly covets it so much?
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The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver, Part 2: The Gate of Orpheus
Contributors: Jean Van Hamme (writer), Antoine Aubin (artist), Etienne Schreder (artist)
Copyright: 2010
The year is 1954. Captured and then abandoned by Olrik, Mortimer is now lost at sea with no provisions. Fortunately, he can always count on Blake. Once reunited, and with the help of some old friends, the two British gentlemen continue their dangerous mission to stop Von Stahl from resurrecting the Third Reich using the evil power of the 30 pieces of silver… a mission that will take them throughout Greece and into the very Kingdom of Hades!
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The Oath of the Five Lords
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Adnre Juillard (artist)
Copyright: 2012
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?
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The Septimus Wave
Contributors: Jean Dufaux (writer), Antoine Aubin (artist), Etienne Schreder (artist)
Copyright: 2013
The year is 1954. 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…
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Plutarch's Staff
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Juillard (artist)
Copyright: 2015
The year is 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...
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The Testament of William S.
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Andre Juillard (artist)
Copyright: 2016
The year is 1958. 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…
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The Valley of Immortals, Part 1: Threat Over Hong Kong
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Peter Van Dangen (artist), Teun Berserik (artist)
Copyright: 2018
The year is 1947. 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 …
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The Valley of Immortals, Part 2: The Thousandth Arm of the Mekong
Contributors: Yves Sente (writer), Peter Van Dangen (artist), Teun Berserik (artist)
Copyright: 2019
The year is 1947. 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 …
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The Call of the Moloch
Contributors: Jean Dufaux (writer), Christian Cailleaux (artist), Etienne Schreder (artist)
Copyright: 2020
The year is 1954. 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?
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The Last Swordfish
Contributors: Jean Van Hamme (writer), Peter Van Dongen (artist), Teun Berserik (artist)
Copyright: 2021
The year is 1948. 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 …
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Eight Hours in Berlin
Contributors: Jean-Luc Fromentall (writer), Jose-Luis Bocquet (writer), Antoine Aubin (artist)
Copyright: 2022
The year is 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 …
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