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Also by Jacques Tardi:

The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad?le Blanc-Sec, December 2010
Hardcover

The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad?le Blanc-Sec
Jacques Tardi

Book 1
Fantagraphics Books
December 2010
On Sale: December 6, 2010
96 pages
ISBN: 1606993828
EAN: 9781606993828
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel

Classic comedy-thriller by one of France’s greatest, released to coincide with the film version!Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades.

With various American attempts to publish Adèle having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi’s West Coast Blues and You Are There, launches a spectacular, newly re-translated, hardcover series that intends to collect every one of its nine (soon ten) volumes. In this premiere installment, Adèle becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine, and a demon from the depths of hell — plus of course moronic gendarmes, loyal (or perhaps traitorous?) henchmen, and a climax atop the Eiffel Tower.

The Adèle Blanc-Sec series is currently being adapted into a series of films by the renowned action director Luc Besson (The Professional, The Fifth Element), bringing this quirky, very French series to a new worldwide audience. 96 pages of full-color comics

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