Cover: Hugo Pratt

Ernie Pike #[nn]

Jan 1984 · Glénat

🌐 French edition · synopsis shown in English

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“Un lieutenant allemand”

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This volume collects stories from the classic war comic series Ernie Pike, originally created by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Hugo Pratt. The collection focuses on the real-life war correspondent Ernie Pike, presenting gritty, humanistic tales of soldiers and civilians caught in the chaos of World War II. Published by Glénat in 1984, it brings together some of the most acclaimed episodes from the series' original run in the 1950s and 1960s.

In "Un lieutenant allemand," journalist Ernie Pike encounters Adako, a Bechuana soldier from the Mochundye region, at a Rangoon hospital, where the wounded man recounts a haunting tale of a British brigade of African soldiers and a Japanese unit utterly destroyed—leaving behind a mystery of vengeance and ritual between Japan and Africa. Written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrated with stark, evocative detail by Hugo Pratt, this story unfolds with quiet intensity, grounded in history and shadowed by forgotten rites. The cover, also by Pratt, captures the story’s somber, atmospheric tone.

writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld · artist, inker Hugo Pratt · cover Hugo Pratt

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writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld

artist, inker Hugo Pratt

cover pencils, inks Hugo Pratt

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Une brigade britannique essentiellement composée de soldats africains et une unité japonaise entièrement décimées: que s’est-il passé? À l’hôpital de Rangoon, Ernie Pike rencontre le soldat Adako, Bechuana, qui lui raconte cette histoire de vengeance et de rite entre Japon et Afrique… [A British brigade mainly composed of African soldiers and a Japanese unit entirely decimated: what happened? At the Rangoon hospital, journalist Ernie Pike meets soldier Adako, Bechuana from the Mochundye region (present-day Botswana), who tells him this story of revenge and rite between Japan and Africa…]

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