Non Album Collection 112

Udolfo – The Watch with the 7 Rubies

In the eighteenth century, the public writer and detective Udolfo and his assistant Tirelire are contacted by Clarissa, a young woman chased by the notary's gang who wants to steal the watch with the seven rubies owned by the watchmaker Nicolas, the father of Clarissa...

Howard - Dirty Fred, the Skipper

Smiling Jim was going back to the bar where he spent a lovely evening beating two dozen men unconscious. He forgot his knife in a sailor. Said sailor was alive and kicking and offered Jimmy a job aboard a luxury cruiser. There the young master criminal has to deal with murder mystery, mass hysteria, and sleeping on the job. Later - as it so often happens to heroes of epic novels - he meets the prince of an island nation who wishes to switch roles with him for a day. From there one storyline follows the adventures of the young prince in the Singapore underworld after he is sold into slavery for two and a half dollars (which seems like a bargain price for undercover royalty). The other consists of the journals of his quasi-illiterate grace, king Smiling de James, the first of his name. Their quests are haunted by the mysterious living legend of the seas, Captain Dirty Fred, whose fiendishly clever schemes will decide the fate of both the prince and the pauper...

The Mission (Sebok) (1971)

Péter Zsoldos was a Hungarian science fiction author who largely wrote about themes common in US/UK science fiction like space travel and robots. In The Mission, he describes an even closer contact: the dead astronauts' personalities revive in the brains of inhabitants of the distant planet, thus creating an exciting coexistence of differently evolved intellects sharing one body.

Ric Hochet

Ric Hochet is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Tibet (drawings) and André-Paul Duchâteau (scripts). It first appeared on March 30, 1955 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tintin. The series features the adventures of Ric Hochet, a reporter for the newspaper La Rafale in Paris. The hero is loosely based Rouletabille, which is sometimes referred. This character is also a tribute to another cartoon character, Jan Kordaat/JeanValhardi. Journalist, Ric Hochet cooperates regularly with the judicial police. Its investigations are almost always conducted in an atmosphere fantastic that eventually gives way to the sordid and murderous impulses narrow interests of the protagonists. The theme of the double is involved in numerous albums, often associated with that of filiation, the back, or the "fake death". The series' name deviated as translations were published across Europe, with the result that it is known as Rick Master in Germany, Rik Ringers in The Netherlands and Flanders, Riku Oksa in Finland and Allan Falk and Rick Hart in Scandinavia. Ric Hochet's stories were also published in South India in Tamil Language by Prakash Publishers. Ric Hochet is known as "Reporter Johnny" in Tamil. 

Ric Hochet and Bourdon Commissioner are supposed to be in French and Paris, but often occur in Belgium, or even use phrases Walloon unknown in France as "road accident" or "hollow bush" (in French of France, c is rather "cabbage").The uniform of the police, especially red above the cap, do not fully respect the French regulation dress of the time.
Temporarily stop after the death of Tibet in 2010, the series will resume in May 2015 with a new album written by Zidrouand drawn by Simon Van Liemt.
Firstly, the Commissioner Bourdon born in 1955, inspired by the characters of Maigret and the Bourrel inspector of Last five minutes, and then comes another character, a newspaper crier named Ric Hochet, who becomes refer for the newspaper La Rafale with a very particular taste for mystery. Bourdon meeting with commissioner will make it a detectiveamateur renowned.
Both appear, from December 1958, as protagonists short sections forming puzzles in the Journal of Tintin under the title Take the glove!.
The first episode of the series Ric Hochet, Signed Chameleon is also published in the newspaper Tintin, before the editor Lombard did so his first book in the same series in September 1963: Pounce Havre. This first volume actually contains two adventures.

Jan Kordaat

The Adventures of Jan Kordaat (in Dutch or Jean Valhardi in Francais ) is a series of Franco-Belgian comics created in 1941 by Jean Doisy, scenario and Jijé, drawing in no.  40/41 journal Spirou. He staged an insurance investigator named Jan Kordaat/Jean Valhardi who travels the world for its investigations. The drawing will then be taken over by Eddy Paape then by René Follet, while in this scenario will succeed Eddy Paape, Yvan Delporte, Jean-Michel Charlier, Philip, André-Paul Duchateau and Jacques Stoquart. 

The series tells the adventures of an investigator insurance, named Jan Kordaat/Jean Valhardi, worldwide, ranging from his Belgian home to the most exotic countries. Thereafter his trade will gradually fade in profile than a pure adventurer and hard one. He is the prototype of cartoon heroes who do not know fear, are beautiful and strong. Arsene Stooges Jean Valhardi that appears mainly during the years Jean-Michel Charlier, this is a type of strong build, muscular and not boastful, just the opposite of the hero. Gégène, an extravagant will go from being a foil to debut than full featured Series.

Ravottersclub Favorieten

Ravottersclub Favorieten is a published 1958-1979 French-Belgian comic series. Tibet drew the humorous series for junior, the children's supplement of Chez Nous. Greg, André-Paul Duchâteau and Bob de Groot wrote the lyrics. Between 1965 and 1969 was Tibet responsible for seven stories. The series appeared in Junior and the French issue of Tintin. There was also a partial album's release. In the German language appeared 1973-1975 the 12th and the 16th story in MV Comix. Feest gave in 1990 an album with the first two episodes out.

Four friends, each with different characteristics are based along the club's fearless. Its president is Junior. Their headquarters is located in an abandoned shed. They help the police in the investigation of unsolved criminal cases.

Yalek

Yalek is a series of comics Franco-Belgian conducted in 1969 for the daily Le Soir by writer André-Paul Duchateau and artist Christian Denayer before being replaced by Jacques Geron from 1980 just before the recovery, published in 1972 by several publishers including Rossel. It all starts with Tibet, which in 1966, had offered Christian Denayer work on Ric Rattle. For the sets and cars, it meets André-Paul Duchateau. Together Christian Denayer and André-Paul Duchateau will create two characters named Yalek and Pocket in 1969 for the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. The first publication in this newspaper is the Belgian 15 October 1969.

Arsène Lupin

Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character has also appeared in a number of books from other writers as well as numerous film, television, stage play, and comic book adaptations.

Arsène Lupin, written by André-Paul Duchateau, artist Géron, published by C. Lefrancq: Le Bouchon de cristal (1989), 813 — La Double Vie d'Arsène Lupin (1990), 813 — Les Trois crimes d'Arsène Lupin (1991), La Demoiselle aux yeux verts (1992), L'Aiguille creuse (1994).

Bruce J. Hawker

Bruce J. Hawker is the character namesake of a series of comic Belgian published by Editions du Lombard. It was created, written and drawn by William Vance for the weekly women today Women in 1976 and appeared in Tintin from 1979. William Vance teamed in 1987 with André-Paul Duchateau for the scenario.

At the dawn of the xix th century, when it is abandoned by his own, Bruce J. Hawker, become pirate after being lieutenant in the Royal Navy, seeking to find at any price its place in society, and between wars conspiracies.

De avonturen van de 3L

This comic is a Franco Belgian strip created by André Paul Duchâteau from 1966 to '81, under the pseudonym Michel Vasseur, he collaborated with Jean Mariette (Mittéï).

The story related with three young scouts with their brave adventures.