Two New German Buck Danny's, Tabry's Valentin and more

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Some publishers have something new to offer.

Salleck continues the series with THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BUCK DANNY 5 (12.90 euros) and presents an adventure that brought Buck and his friends behind the iron curtain in 1961. Here, too, the more than 70-year-old series has done the fresh cell culture good.

For comparison you can read THE ADVENTURES OF BUCK DANNY: BRIEF STORIES 1946-1969 (15, - Euro). The volume reads very diversely, since it not only contains Buck-Danny stories, but also parodies and a few stories that Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon created but are not part of the Buck canon, such as “The agony of death der Bismarck ”, which is here for the first time in color. By the way: In the last story in this volume, Andre Franquin's stupid office boy Gaston appears.

The VALENTIN GESAMTAUSGABE 1 (29.80 euros) is a Funny Classic by Rene Goscinny and Jean Tabary, who invented that year, also Isnogud lift in which both launched. The vagabond Valentin is the antithesis of the Grand Vizier, who wants to become caliph instead of caliph. He's a dreamer, a hippie, a tramp, someone who believes in the good in people. Goscinny and Tabary have fun with him, after only four short stories Goscinny is technically overloaded and Tabary also does the writing for the album-length stories. The comic is a forgotten pearl that All Verlag, which is increasingly specializing in classics, has now recovered.

With THE SURVIVORS OF THE ATLANTIC INTEGRAL 3 (29.90 euros) the issue of the historical adventure comic books by Jean-Yves Mitton exists completely. He is set at the time of the revolutions and paints an unflattering picture of the time when his main character Yann Le Scorff encounters the barbarism of that society. In concise pictures, Mitton describes how the black slaves were denied any humanity. He lets his character meet historical people in the course of the series, which is based on nine albums (and thus three integral volumes) and accurately builds historical events, so that the adventure is also quite instructive.

Two further volumes of the L. FRANK INTEGRAL edition (29.90 euros each) have also been published. The fourth volume contains the adventures from 1987 to 1997. The story “The Apocalypse” is particularly interesting here, because Jacques Martin plays here with a strong science fiction element that does not turn out to be the wrong track. That makes this adventure spectacular and extraordinary. The issues of the seventh volume were published from 2008 to 2010. Here the reporter Luc Frank investigates after bomb attacks in London and Hollywood, when a sect threatens to smoke out the holy pit of sin in Hollywood.