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martin milan
Martin Milan is a pilot who’s trying to keep himself to himself and live a quiet life but finds himself reluctantly involved in all kinds of adventures, his sense of justice and his loyalty leading him to take sides and fight for what he believes in, invariably choosing to stand by the weak against the strong, by the oppressed against the oppressors, by the hunted against the hunters. He is helped in this just fight by an unfaltering luck and lately by a stray dog that chose to tag along with him - a dog hiding a curious shiny ball in one ear...
N.B. The Martin Milan comics series can be read in any order, as each book contains one or more standalone stories.
The series has been published several times in the past.
All the episodes were republished online in 2014 on BD-Artstrip.com, as French e-books, in the original chronological order of creation.
We have opted for the same presentation. Numbers appearing on the book covers of previous editions may differ from this order.
The series has been published several times in the past.
All the episodes were republished online in 2014 on BD-Artstrip.com, as French e-books, in the original chronological order of creation.
We have opted for the same presentation. Numbers appearing on the book covers of previous editions may differ from this order.
1 - DESTINATION SET-UP
A mad scientist has designed the Betizooka – a beta-ray gun emitting a laser-like beam that drives people crazy.
Martin Milan finds himself hired by a fake hunter, in order to track down fake bears and actual spies, in the middle of a very real Cold War, in the no man’s land between two Eastern European countries.
This volume also features The Scribe in the Sky, Martin Milan & The Migrating Bird, and The Screwy Bolt-maniac.
2 - THE JUNGLE TRAMPS
In South America, Little Pierre runs away from school, looking for his daddy, who has gone missing during a trip into the Nica-Rican rain forest.
Sensing a good story, a tabloid reporter, Mathias Gally, agrees to help him track down his father, and hires pilot Martin Milan to take him into the forest.
But the jungle is rife with wild animals, outlaws, Nica-Rican Indians, diamond hunters, and many other perils…
In South America, Little Pierre runs away from school, looking for his daddy, who has gone missing during a trip into the Nica-Rican rain forest.
Sensing a good story, a tabloid reporter, Mathias Gally, agrees to help him track down his father, and hires pilot Martin Milan to take him into the forest.
But the jungle is rife with wild animals, outlaws, Nica-Rican Indians, diamond hunters, and many other perils…
3 - EGLANTINE FROM MY YOUTH
Benji is a young boy living in Africa with Eglantine, the friendly tame lioness he raised ever since she was a cub. His father, however, must go back to Europe, and there’s no way they could take Eglantine with them. Martin is initially hired to take Eglantine back to the African bush, but flatly refuses, knowing fully well that the poor lioness, raised by men, would risk getting shot by poachers. Instead he offers to take her to a Reservation for wild animals, a park where he and Benji will help her get reacquainted with the wilderness. But Eglantine, raised on catfood, and Benji, overprotecting her, both have a lot of growing up to do before they can make it on their own…
Followed by Four Lessons In Optimism.
Benji is a young boy living in Africa with Eglantine, the friendly tame lioness he raised ever since she was a cub. His father, however, must go back to Europe, and there’s no way they could take Eglantine with them. Martin is initially hired to take Eglantine back to the African bush, but flatly refuses, knowing fully well that the poor lioness, raised by men, would risk getting shot by poachers. Instead he offers to take her to a Reservation for wild animals, a park where he and Benji will help her get reacquainted with the wilderness. But Eglantine, raised on catfood, and Benji, overprotecting her, both have a lot of growing up to do before they can make it on their own…
Followed by Four Lessons In Optimism.
4 - THE EMIR AND THE SEVEN BEDOUINS
Rachid is a sixteen-year old boy, shy and skinny, working as a gofer at a small European airport.
His big problem is that he’s scared of everything and constantly gets picked upon by bullies. Martin Milan befriends him. Suddenly, out of the blue, Rachid learns that he’s the only male heir to a dynasty - a very scary responsibility !
However, Martin agrees to come along with him to his tiny emirate in the Persian Gulf. There, they find that, along with his title, Rachid has also inherited an enemy…
5 - HIS NAME WAS JEROME
As a child, Jerome was Martin Milan’s best friend, following in his footsteps everywhere he went, living in his shadow, playing the same games, dreaming the same dreams. However, Martin’s talent and luck had always been as obvious as Jerome’s lack thereof, and as they grew up, it became increasingly difficult for Jerome to emulate his role model. And when the time came to apply for their pilots' licenses, Martin brilliantly succeeded, while Jerome had to try again and again…
An unforgettable tale of friendship and solidarity, which moved an entire generation of readers, followed by four other stories, The Impossible Within Reach, As Long as a Dog Waits for You, Miss Radada and The Caller.
6 - THE MUD PEOPLE
In the New Hebrides, Martin must crash-land his plane on a lost, forgotten island - which used to be an army base. There, the villagers have kept idolizing the 'Cargo god', who used to bring them gifts, food and medicine from the sky during the war. Martin and his unwitting passenger, a corrupt politician on the run, find themselves among a poor tribe expecting them to bring back this lost abundance.
But the only thing the heavens have in store for them is a plane full of mercenaries, destroying everything in their wake.
That is, until Martin intervenes…
7 - A THOUSAND YEARS-LONG AGONY
In India, a rich old Maharajah, sensing Death is near, plans to get cryogenized – frozen alive.
He intends to remain frozen in a special tank for a thousand years, expecting that by then, science shall be able to revive him and cure him from all the drawbacks of old age, making him immortal.
However, many things could happen during a thousand years, so, being rich is not enough to guarantee survival, he needs to be lucky, too. Hearing of pilot Martin Milan’s amazing luck, he decides to take him along – without his consent if need be.
However, Martin is a very reluctant lucky charm…
8 - ADELINE FROM BEYOND THE NIGHT
In Arizona, Martin Milan gets blackmailed into conveying a prisoner. She turns out to be a pretty young girl called Adeline, who stands accused of attempted murder.
However, she tells a different story : she says strange men keep chasing her in order to take a look at her unusual beauty mark – three little moles on her right shoulder.
Is she a homicidal paranoid maniac or just a damsel in distress? Martin, as a child, once fell in love with a girl called Adeline, but she was taken away from him.
This time he’s big enough to fight back…
In Arizona, Martin Milan gets blackmailed into conveying a prisoner. She turns out to be a pretty young girl called Adeline, who stands accused of attempted murder.
However, she tells a different story : she says strange men keep chasing her in order to take a look at her unusual beauty mark – three little moles on her right shoulder.
Is she a homicidal paranoid maniac or just a damsel in distress? Martin, as a child, once fell in love with a girl called Adeline, but she was taken away from him.
This time he’s big enough to fight back…
9 - THE CHILD WHO RAN WITH THE PACK
In Africa, Martin gets hired for a very unusual kind of safari by Miss Guinguett, a publicity-hungry cabaret singer, who is planning, with the help of a seasoned hunter, to catch – and adopt – a child raised by a pack of wild dogs.
However Martin always stands by the preys, not the hunters, and besides, this wolf-child has decidedly unusual tastes for someone who was raised in the African bush…
10 - A SHADOW PASSED BY
In Transylvaquia, a tiny country lost in the Karpates, Martin crosses the path of several strange characters : a deathly pale Count who sleeps by day and roams at night, some scared villagers dabbling in black magic, a hunchback, an alchemist... And most intriguing of all, the shadow of a young girl, who seems to await him, and whose delicate perfume lingers in the air…
They all are fated to meet, but they do not know it yet...
11 - THE ANGEL AND THE BOY WONDER
Julius is a nine-year old genius. Despite his age, he has already mastered an amazing number of foreign languages, and his level in science and mathematics is that of a world-class scientist.
His special abilities make him a very lonely little boy, but to make matters worse, his clever mind has designed a terrifying weapon that could prove a threat to all Mankind.
Julius must now run away to protect this scientific breakthrough from any ill use. Having noticed that Martin’s dog hides a mysterious shiny ball in its ear, Julius has figured out that this entity is the secret behind his amazing luck…
And so he comes to Martin for help, tracked down by a bunch of spies all trying to get hold of his discovery…
12 - THE COCOON IN THE DESERT
In Australia, Martin meets a strange girl, looking, or so she says, for a very rare species of butterfly. She turns out to be a French special agent, married to the very jealous Othello, a childhood friend of Martin’s.
Back when they were classmates, the two boys made a pact, and now Othello has come to ask Martin a favor, which leads the pilot to get involved in an expedition into the Outback, where some strange goings-on surround a sick little boy…
13 - THE GHOUL AND THE BIOLOGIST
Martin’s mother asks him to help a former boyfriend of hers, Gaston Laroque, a rich and famous biologist, who is apparently on the verge of madness. Every night he sees a monster, some kind of ghoul, in his room, even though he’s safely locked up so no-one can get in.
Thus Martin finds himself trying to untangle a web of lies and deceit involving a pretty girl with paranormal intuitions, a compiler of strange facts, a C.E.O. facing bankruptcy and a bizarre guru.
He will definitely need his dog’s help to solve this case.
MARTIN MILAN INTEGRALE omnibus edition volume 1, Le Lombard
MARTIN MILAN INTEGRALE omnibus edition volume 2, Le Lombard
MARTIN MILAN INTEGRALE omnibus edition volume 3, Le Lombard
MARTIN MILAN : A FEW INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS AND RE-EDITIONS, IN DANISH, DUTCH, FRENCH, SWEDISH, ARABIC, PORTUGUESE/BRAZILIAN, CROATIAN...
MARTIN MILAN IN MAGAZINES - IN FRANCE, BELGIUM, PORTUGAL, BRASIL...
NORBERT & KARI
NORBERT AND KARI
Norbert, a Frenchman who has become severely allergic to the sound of car horns, and cannot stand city life anymore, decides to leave Paris for good, and to settle on the Polynesian island of Taaratatah. There, he hopes to escape the rat race, but he discovers a curious mix of traditions, ancient superstitions and the odd invasions of so-called « civilized » people and inventions. So much for peace and quiet ! However, he strikes a friendship with Kari - a young boy extremely eager to learn more about the outside world, and yet already far more knowledgeable and wise than his grown-up friend. Together, they live all kinds of adventures in the islands.
Norbert, a Frenchman who has become severely allergic to the sound of car horns, and cannot stand city life anymore, decides to leave Paris for good, and to settle on the Polynesian island of Taaratatah. There, he hopes to escape the rat race, but he discovers a curious mix of traditions, ancient superstitions and the odd invasions of so-called « civilized » people and inventions. So much for peace and quiet ! However, he strikes a friendship with Kari - a young boy extremely eager to learn more about the outside world, and yet already far more knowledgeable and wise than his grown-up friend. Together, they live all kinds of adventures in the islands.
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1-TAITOUAMOTUS, THE SILENT ATOLL Norbert, exhausted by stress, city life and traffic jams, leaves Paris to start a new life in the islands. He lands at Papeete, in Tahiti, during the July festival, a month-long celebration of Bastille Day complete with noisy firecrackers and fireworks ; horrified, he flees aboard a local sailboat towards a distant atoll, looking for any island so long as it is secluded and forgotten by the modern world. He settles for Taaratatah where he meets KARI. But on the sailboat also arrived an Asian man who seems to have found a method to manufacture black pearls and a crook who's eager to get his hands on those pearls… 2-A DICTATOR ON TAARATATAH Pouvaré, a political agitator, flanked by three henchmen - a brute, a pickpocket and a killer - seizes power in Taaratatah and starts a reign of terror. His aim is to get hold of the meagre resources of copra and coral enabling the tiny local community to survive… 3-KEY OF THE BEARDED MEN A key, in Polynesia, is a tiny rocky island. Albin Porexport, a cynical, crooked businessman, brings to Taaratatah a somewhat incompetent botanist in order to find on a nearby islet, a blue herb, supposed to be the main ingredient for an elixir of youth. However, all they dig up on said islet is a bunch of bearded men, dressed in seventeenth century style clothes… 4-OPERATION MADREPORES Everybody has heard about the French atomic tests in the Pacific. Therefore, spies from all kind of countries are now flocking frantically around Taaratatah. Norbert tries to warn the local French officers on duty at a nearby military base... 5-THE CLOWN AND THE TINY MUTINEERS A criminal on the run hides in the guise of a clown to escape the police. He joins the Maccheroni Circus, embarking on the Tiki, the boat linking Taaratatah and other neighboring islands. On board he meets three undersized brothers, who long for a life of crime. But Norbert and Kari are in the way… 6-AIU-PUPU IN THE LAND OF BACK-TO-NATURE MEN Norbert and Kari go to Papeete in order to buy some medicines. Norbert, swiftly identified as a tourist and a potentially easy mark, fall prey to a con man, who tries to sell him a fake treasure map to the "Land of Back-to-nature Men"… 7-STRANGE GOINGS-ON IN SEA-LION COUNTRY Norbert & Kari are on their way back to Taaratatah, on board the Tiki ; but there’s another passenger, posing as a journalist : one Cantimplora, who plans to help a mad dictator, Sanchez, escape from jail… Soon they all find themselves on a (previously) desert island, among a herd of crazed sea-lions, a garrison commander clad in a towel, an execution squad and a mustachioed dictator on the loose… 8-PARTY CRACKERS At a military base, not far from Taaratatah Island, a Mirage pilot realizes upon landing that he has lost his atom bomb in mid-flight… Captain Trouille, drunk on hair lotion, happens to find it and thinks he can sell it for a good price ; he tries to hide it from military search parties and various opportunists… 9-THE MASTER OF THE ABYSS Norbert is so tired, he thinks he’s hearing voices. He takes sleeping pills and starts rowing his boat toward a little island nearby, planning to get some rest ; however, he falls asleep on the way, and goes overboard, sinking into the sea… Kari won’t admit his best friend is gone. He starts looking for him. On the way, he meets old friends – Albin Porexport the crooked businessman, and circus owner Maccheroni. They are looking for a hermit who taught dolphins how to speak like humans… 10-ELECTION DAY The Wise Men’s council of Taaratatah must decide upon something. They cannot quite figure out what, still they organize elections. Norbert intervenes, but soon, the elections, same as anywhere else in the world, bring forth total chaos… 11-MONSTERS ISLAND A very weird bird startles Norbert, and soon several strange or monstrous creatures start cropping up around Taaratatah. They all hail from the same mysterious island. Norbert and Kari investigate… And, much to their surprise, find a family of scientists, Seraphim Langelot and his wife and kid, on Monsters Island. However the Army’s orders are to raze the island, along with anything or anyone on it… 12-THE STONE OUT OF NOWHERE An underwater volcanic eruption occurs near Taaratatah, and soon a volcano rises above the sea. Two rival vulcanologists - fighting to plant the first flag on the newly risen land - promptly arrive on the scene, bringing utter confusion to the island… 13-THE KINDOM OF ASTAP Norbert and Kari arrive on a supposedly desert island, only to find that it has been colonized by marooned schoolchildren. They have created a kingdom where growing older is the worst of fates, fantasy reigns and acting reasonable is severely punished. There, the lost boys of Astap consider any interfering adult as their worst enemy… 14-AN EMPIRE ON PILE-WORK Albin Porexpore, the businessman, led by the lovely HanipepeAnna, the prettiest girl in all the archipelago of Taaratatah, find a small islet upon which he plants an improvised flag. He declares the place a new independent country, and “elects” the unwitting Norbert as the Head of State of this tiny new republic. In fact, Albin’s plan is to turn this artificial country into a tax haven and to deal with crooked oil businessmen… But he didn’t take into account the legendary curiosity of Polynesians who start invading the cramped island, Marx Brothers-style… 15-HOUSE OF THE KLOUNE Norbert & Kari see a strange flying object crash on the beach. Inside is a man who looks as if he’s wearing clownish makeup – but that’s his real face. He is a Kloune, and a very ill one at that. He is, literally, dying to go home, to the Klounes’ land – the only place where he can find the ‘food’ he needs to survive : a sound, not unlike birds’ wings rustling, mixed with laughter. But the only way back to his homeland is through the Last Stop Atoll, an island Polynesians consider taboo… |
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