Adventures of Blake and Mortimer GN (2007-2022 Cinebook) comic books

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Yellow M!" Story and art by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. London's walls resound with the incredible exploits of the "Yellow Mark." The spectacular actions of this mysterious criminal are on the increase: holding up the Bank of England, robbing the imperial crown. No one seems able to stop him. He is so audacious that he lets the police know in advance where he will commit his crimes, each time ridiculing Scotland Yard a little more. The apparent ease with which he evades police schemes begins to worry the highest authorities of the country. The Home Office asks Captain Francis Blake to solve the mystery and discover the identity of the man who hides behind the Yellow Mark. The captain immediately takes as partner his old friend, Professor Philip Mortimer, whose scientific knowledge will be invaluable in solving this extremely complex enigma. Who hides behind the Yellow Mark? Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $14.45.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "The Mystery of the Great Pyramid: Part 1!" Story and art by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Nuclear physicist Professor Philip Mortimer wants to spend his holidays in Cairo with his trusty servant, Nasir, and meet with his old friend, Professor Ahmed Rassim Bey, who offers him the opportunity of satisfying his passion for Egyptology. Invited to take part in deciphering Bey's latest discoveries - in this case, some papyrus coming from mummies of the Ptolemaic age - Mortimer soon realizes that one of the fragments deals with the "Chamber of Horus," a fabled crypt that could contain priceless treasures! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The Mystery of the Great Pyramid: Part 2!" Story and art by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Captain Blake having been assassinated at the Athens Airport, Olrik seems to have won the first round. A furious Mortimer swears that he'll never stop trying to avenge his friend. He goes on the hunt, but information is scarce. Sheik Abdel Razek, an old man with mysterious powers, protects him against Doctor Grossgrabenstein's crew. The doctor is a devoted Egyptologist who has undertaken excavations not far from the Great Pyramid. Strange happenings occur and Mortimer may sometimes feel like he's losing his way in this investigation that will lead him into the darkest depths of the Great Pyramid! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "The Francis Blake Affair!" Based on the characters created by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Ted Benoit. Scandal breaks in the London press: There is a mole in the Intelligence Service! And it appears without a doubt, on a photograph taken by agents of MI-5, that the mole wears the face of Francis Blake! Mortimer believes that his friend has been forced to act against his will. But the initial investigations sweep away this hypothesis: Blake has opened, under an assumed name, an account fed by payments coming from the Bahamas. In a few months, he has withdrawn more than 10 times his annual pay! With MI-5 agents planning to try Blake for high treason, or to kill him if needed, Mortimer decides to find his friend before they do! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Strange Encounter!" Based on the characters created by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Ted Benoit. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the United States in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-colored light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "S.O.S. Meteors!" By Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Extreme weather threatens all of Europe, turning the lives of its citizens inside out. The French government sends Professor Mortimer to Paris to visit his friend Professor Labrousse, the chief French meteorologist. But when the taxi driver sent to meet Mortimer at the station disappears, Mortimer becomes the prime suspect - and only his old friend Blake can clear his name. However, Blake disappears as well, so Mortimer and Labrousse have two missing-person cases to investigate. They soon discover that the two disappearances are not only linked to each other, but also to the climatic catastrophes! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "The Affair of the Necklace!" By Edgar Pierre Jacobs. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "The Voronov Plot!" By Edgar Pierre Jacobs. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 9 - 1st printing. "Sarcophogi of the Sixth Continent Part 1!" By Edgar Pierre Jacobs. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. "Sarcophogi of the Sixth Continent Part 2!" Written by Yves Sente. Art by Andre Juillart. Blake, Mortimer and Nasir are enroute 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 11 - 1st printing. "The Gondwana Shrine!" Written by Yves Sente. Art by Andre Juillart. 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 12 - 1st printing. "Atlantis Mystery!" Written by Yves Sente. Art by Andre Juillart.Deep under Sao Miguel island, rumoured 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 larger in scope than they could have imagined. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 13 - 1st printing. "The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver: Part 1!" Written by Yves Sente. Art by Andre Juillart. 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? Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 14 - 1st printing. "The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver: Part 2!" Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Rene Sterne and Chantal De Spiegeleer. Captured and then abandoned by Olrik, Mortimer is now lost as 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 15 - 1st printing. "The Secret of the Swordfish: Part 1!" Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Rene Sterne and Chantal De Spiegeleer. The original adventures of Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer - and their first encounter with Olrik. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 16 - 1st printing. "The Secret of the Swordfish: Part 2!" Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Rene Sterne and Chantal De Spiegeleer. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 17 - 1st printing. "The Secret of the Swordfish: Part 3!" Story and art by Edgar P. Jacobs. 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 civilization is at stake! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 18 - 1st printing. "The Oath of the Five Lords!" Written by Yves Sente. Art and cover by Andre Juillart. Death in the present re-awakens a dark time in Blake's past. 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. What dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake's own past? Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 19 - 1st printing. "The Time Trap!" Story and art by Edgar P. Jacobs. 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 20 - 1st printing. "The Septimus Wave!" Written by Jean Dufaux and Antoine Aubin. Art by Etienne Schréder. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 21 - 1st printing. "Plutarch's Staff!" Written by Yves Sente. Art by Andre Juillart. Blake and Mortimer must help end a war - to prepare for the next one. Blake and Mortimer's first mission together 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 22 - 1st printing. "Professor Sato's Three Formulae: Part 1!" Story and art by Edgar P. Jacobs. 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

Volume 23 - 1st printing. "Professor Sato's Three Formulae: Part 2!" Written by Edgar P. Jacobs. Art by Edgar P. Jacobs and Bob De. Cover by Bob De. Time for Captain Blake to enter the scene and face... Robo-Mortimer! 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... Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

Volume 24 - 1st printing. "The Testament of William S!" Written by Yves Sente and Andre Jullard. Art by Bob De Moor and Andre Jullard. Cover by Bob De Moor and Andre Juillart. A fascinating investigation on the most famous playwright in history! 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! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 25 - 1st printing. "The Valley of the Immortals: Part 1!"

Written by Yves Sente. Art by Peter Van Dongen and Teun Berserik.

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!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.95.

Volume 26 - 1st printing. "The Valley of the Immortals: Part 2!"

Written by Yves Sente. Art by Peter Van Dongen and Teun Berserik.

The race is on to save Nasir... and Hong Kong! 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!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.95.

Volume 27 - 1st printing. "The Call of the Moloch!"

Written by Jean Dufaux. Art by Christian Cailleaux and Etienne Shréder.

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?

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.95.

Volume 28 - 1st printing. "The Last Swordfish!"

Written by Jean Van Hamme. Art by Peter Van Dongen and Teun Berserik.

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 rumor has it the IRA has some sinister plans - and even worse allies.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color.

Cover price $16.95.

Volume 29 - 1st printing. "Eight Days in Berlin!" Written by Jean-Luc Fromental and Jose-Louis Bocquet. Art and cover by Antoine Aubin. 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. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95.