Les Chefs-d'œuvre de la bande dessinée #[nn]
"Une ascension au Mont Blanc" is a haunting, visually striking tale from 1967’s *Les Chefs-d'œuvre de la bande dessinée*, written by Carl Wessler and brought to life with stark, expressive art by Graham Ingels. The story follows a father’s harrowing journey as he confronts a terrifying secret hidden in the birth of his child, leading to a moment of shocking revelation in the shadow of the Alps. The cover, a collaborative effort by E. C. Segar, Clarence Gray, Guy Peellaert, and Paul Gillon, captures the tale’s eerie, dreamlike dread.
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A father thinks he has twins, a beautiful girl and a deformed girl. When he shoots the hateful, vindictive monstrosity to free himself and his beautiful daughter from her presence, he realizes that his wife had given birth to a Siamese infant with two heads joined at the back of the skull and hidden the secret from him.
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