Luc Orient

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Comic
title Luc Orient
country Belgium
author Greg
Gérard Jourd'hui
Eddy Paape
Illustrator Eddy Paape
publishing company Lombard
magazine Tintin
First publication 1967-1994

Luc Orient is one of Eddy Paape drawn in realistic style French-Belgian science fiction - comic series .

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Luc Orient, his girlfriend Lora Jordan and Professor Hugo Kala are employees of the fictional pan-European science authority Eurokristall , with Kala taking on the role of the brilliant scientist, Orient as the eponymous main character of the series that of the impulsive do-it-all and Lora that of a more attentive and thoughtful employee in the background . At the beginning the series reminds a bit of Flash Gordon , but then quickly develops more independence. Most of the adventures take place on Earth, but also often on the fictional planets Terango and Robak. In addition to genre-typical beings such as mutated animals and exotic monsters, frequently recurring antagonists of the Orient are the Terang dictator Sectan and the ingenious but vicious earthly scientist Doctor Argos.

Publications

Luc Orient appeared in sequels in Tintin from 1967 . It was then one of the many series launched under then-publisher Greg to give the magazine a facelift. From 1969 the stories were published in album form by Editions du Lombard .

Up to album 13, one or two issues a year appeared regularly, the later stories appeared irregularly. Number 16 was written by Paape himself, number 17 is a collection of previously published short stories, in 1994 number 18 was probably the last episode. However, there is still an eight-page fragment of a story that remained unfinished after Greg's death.

Luc Orient made his German debut in the magazine MV-Comix of the Ehapa- Verlag, where under the title Dr. Nowhere only the short story Les spores de nulle part in no. 25/1970 came to reprint. The series was then published by Koralle in sequels in Zack and its offshoots (1972–1979), some stories also in album form (Zack Comic Box). The albums 1 to 13 then appeared in chronological order at Carlsen Verlag and Bastei Verlag . Bastei-Verlag equipped the volumes for kiosk sales with new titles and cover pictures by another illustrator. Volumes 14 to 17 were published by Norbert Hethke Verlag , and number 18 was finally published by Salleck and Mosaik Steinchen by Steinchen , where the fragment was also published as part of a Zack special issue. Lora was renamed Yvonne for the publications in Bastei and Hethke Verlag.

From 2011 to 2012 a complete edition was published as part of the Ehapa comic collection with 5 volumes.

Since 2019, the single albums have been reissued by All Verlag with a new coloring and translation. The lettering is based on the draftsman's French original.

Albums

No. title Different title
1 The Fire Dragons (1967) In the valley of the forbidden stones
2 Frozen Suns (1967) The aliens
3 The ruler of Terango (1968) At the center of foreign power
4th The Planet of Fear (1968/69) Korran's revenge
5 The Steel Forest (1969) The killer machines
6th Phantoms of Light (1970) Death rays from the cosmos
7th The Crater of Doom (1971) End of the line madness
8th Under the spell of the devilish rays (1971/72) Help for the super baby
9 The last 24 hours of the earth (1972/73) Attack of the microbe walkers
10 In the clutches of the ant people (1973/74) The seventh continent
11 Leap into the Past (1974) Invasion of the monsters
12 The crystal gate (1975/76) The ark of the Darz
13 The Anvil of Lightning (1977) Planet of last hope
14th The Shore of Terror (1980)
15th Robak, Last Hope (1983)
16 Caragal (1984)
17th The Spurs From Nowhere (1990); 4 short stories
18th Journey to Hell (1994)

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