Avant Blake et Mortimer, Edgar P. Jacobs a imaginé une première bande dessinée devenue mythique - Le Rayon U. La voici maintenant disponible en anglais.
La nation de Norlandia est en conflit avec sa puissante rivale, Austradia. L'éminent Professor Marduk est chargé par le Grand Conseil de Norlandia de procéder à la militarisation d'une grande découverte scientifique : le Rayon U. Toutefois, il faudra pour cela trouver un gisement d'Uradium, le minerai indispensable au rayon. Et le seul connu se trouve dans un archipel volcanique encore inexploré. Une expédition est alors montée. Mais dans l'ombre, les services secrets d'Austradia attendent leur heure ...
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?
Professor Philip Mortimer has decided to spend his holidays in Cairo with his trusty servant, Nasir. There he plans to meet his old friend, Professor Ahmed Rassim Bey, who offers him the fantastic opportunity of satisfying his passion for Egyptology. Professor Bey has invited him to take part in deciphering his latest discoveries-in this case, some papyrus coming from mummies of the Ptolemaic age. Mortimer and Bey soon realize that one of the fragments deals with the «Chamber of Horus,» a fabled crypt that could contain priceless treasures...
Correspond au tome 4 français: Le mystère de la grande pyramide t.1
Captain Blake having been assassinated at 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 for Olrik, 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.
Correspond au tome 5 français: Le mystère de la grande pyramide t.2
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.
Correspond au tome 2 français: Le secret de l'Espadon t.2
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.
Correspond au tome 10 français: L'affaire du collier
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.
Correspond au tome 3 français: Le secret de l'Espadon t.3
Extreme weather threatens the whole of continental Europe, turning the lives of its citizens inside out. The French government calls Professor Mortimer to help solve this enigma. Mortimer travels near Paris to visit his friend Professor Labrousse, the chief French meteorologist. But when the taxi driver Labrousse sent to meet Mortimer at the station disappears, our friend becomes the prime suspect. Mortimer gets in touch with his old friend Blake, also in France, to help him out of this tricky situation.
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.
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 far bigger in scope than they could have imagined.
Correspond au tome 7 français: L'énigme de l'Atlantide
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...
Correspond au tome 1 français: Le secret de l'Espadon t.1
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...
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...
Correspond au tome 11 français: Les 3 formules du professeur Satô t.1
Rien ne va plus au Japon ! Le professeur Sató, qui a fait d'incroyables découvertes dans le domaine de la cybernétique, a été kidnappé par Olrik. Par prudence, Sató avait indiqué la cachette des trois formules qui gouvernent ses découvertes au professeur Mortimer, avec charge de les protéger. Malheureusement, Mortimer est finalement capturé, et Olrik fait de lui une copie robotisée afin de récupérer les formules. Mais voici qu'arrive le capitaine Blake, bien décidé à retrouver son ami...
Correspond au tome 12 français: Les 3 formules du professeur Satô t.2
