Les aventures de Blake et Mortimer

In the mid-1980s, France Loisirs began collecting the classic, science-fictional globe-trotting adventures of Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer, originally created by Edgar P. Jacobs, into a uniform hardcover series. Running 22 issues through 2013, this reprint edition made the beloved British secret service and atomic physicist duo’s Cold War-era mysteries—filled with lost civilizations, doomsday devices, and shadowy conspiracies—accessible to a new generation of French readers. While not new stories, the series stands as a durable monument to Jacobs’ meticulous ligne claire art and his pivotal role in shaping the Franco-Belgian comic tradition.