Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
| The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | |
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The front cover of the original, 1976 edition of the first album, "Adèle et la Bête." It shows Adèle, the eponymous heroine, and the pterodactyl on the rooftops of Paris.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Casterman |
| Schedule | Varied |
| Formats | Original material for the series has been published in the newspaper Sud-Ouest in 1976, the comics anthologies BD #28–39 and (À suivre) #29–33, 76–81, 199–201 and the magazine Télérama #2998–3006. |
| Original language | French |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1976 – present |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Jacques Tardi |
| Penciller(s) | Jacques Tardi |
| Inker(s) | Anne Delobel (1976–78) Jacques Tardi (1980–98) Jean-Luc Ruault (2007) |
| Colorist(s) | Anne Delobel (1976–78) Jacques Tardi (1980–98) Jean-Luc Ruault (2007) |
| Reprints | |
| The series has been reprinted, at least in part, in English. | |
| Collected editions | |
| "Pterror Over Paris" and "The Eiffel Tower Demon" | |
| "The Mad Scientist" and "Mummies on Parade" | |
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (French: Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec) is a historical fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in album format by Belgian publisher Casterman, sometimes preceded by serialisation in various periodicals, intermittently since then. The comic portrays the titular far-fetched adventures and mystery-solving of its eponymous heroine, herself a writer of popular fiction, in a secret history-infused, gaslamp fantasy version of the early 20th century, set primarily in Paris and prominently incorporating real-life locations and events. Initially a light-hearted parody of such fiction of the period, it takes on a darker tone as it moves into the post–World War I years and the 1920s.
One of Tardi's most popular works and his first to span multiple albums, it has been reprinted in English and other translations and is being adapted as a big-budget film trilogy.
Adèle Blanc-Sec takes place in the same fictional universe as three earlier Tardi comics: Adieu Brindavoine ("Farewell Brindavoine"), serialised in 1972 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote #680–700, its direct sequel La Fleur au fusil ("The Flower in the Rifle"), a ten-page one-shot first published in 1974 in Pilote No. 743 and included in albums of the former, and the 1974 original graphic novel The Arctic Marauder (Le Démon des glaces, "The Demon of the Ice"). It is, however, the more technology-focused, what might now be called steampunk, Arctic Marauder that takes place first in the fictional continuity, being set in the 1890s, with Lucien Brindavoine's adventures, considered a less refined, early prototype for Adèle's, occurring during the World War I hiatus in Adèle's story line.
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