Paperback. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-coloured light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Blake & Mortimer 5 - The Strange Encounter (Paperback)
Publisher: Cinebook Ltd, Ashford
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1905460759
ISBN 13: 9781905460755
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Ted Benoit
Condition: new

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The two gentlemen-spies travel to America and take on a 177-year-old evil. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's ancestor, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777 when he was swallowed up by a strange, multicolored light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.

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Jean Van Hamme and Ted Benoit are one of two teams who carried on the Blake and Mortimer series after its Belgian creator's death in 1987 (the other team was made up of Yves Sente and Andre Juillard). Jean Van Hamme's popular series, also published by Cinebook, are Thorgal, Largo Winch and Lady S. The artist Ted Benoit is a big admirer and supporter of the A"ligne claireA" instituted by Herge and E. P. Jacobs.

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