Rick master

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Comic
title Rick master
Original title Ric Hochet
country Belgium
author André-Paul Duchâteau
Zidrou
Illustrator Tibet
Simon Van Liemt
publishing company Le Lombard
magazine Tintin
First publication 1955 - ...
expenditure 81

Rick Master ( Ric Hochet ) is a Franco-Belgian comic series by André-Paul Duchâteau and Tibet , published between 1955 and 2010 . After the death of Tibet in 2010, the French publisher Le Lombard decided to continue the series from 2015 with the artist duo Simon Van Liemt (drawings) and Zidrou (scenario).

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Mural on Rue des Bons Secours in Brussels

Rick Master is an amateur detective and journalist for the Paris daily La Rafale . Through his work and his friendship with Inspector Bourdon, he is repeatedly involved in mysterious criminal cases in which elements of the supernatural ( werewolves , vampires , return from the dead) sometimes play a role. However, mysterious processes always find a natural explanation.

Rick Master's trademarks are his clothing: trench coat, turtleneck sweater (initially yellow, then blue, finally red), blue trousers and black and white patterned jacket. In addition, he always drives a yellow (only a red in volume 6) sports car: in the first two volumes a MG A Roadster (1955) , later a Porsche 356 Cabriolet (1955) , Volvo P1800 (1961) , Porsche 911 Targa (1965) , Porsche 911 Coupé (1970) , Porsche 911 Targa (1975) , Porsche 911 Turbo (1974) , Porsche 911 Turbo (1993) and Porsche 911 Carrera (2004) . Volume 18 flashes back to 1938. Richard, Rick Master's father and also a detective, not only looks astonishingly similar to him, but also wears identical clothes and drives a red MG-TA Roadster .

Other characters that appear frequently in the volumes are Bourdon's niece and Rick Master's girlfriend Nadine, Bourdon's assistant Inspector Ledru, Rick Master's colleague Bob Drumont and the idiosyncratic Professor Ermine. A common opponent is the hangman.

Although Rick Master and the other characters do not age noticeably, the series has always adapted to current events in 40 years and this includes, for example, the frequent vehicle changes. These are usually justified by the fact that the car ended up in a ditch during a chase at the end of the previous volume or fell off a cliff.

Publications

In the French-language original, Ric Hochet originally appeared in Tintin . In Germany the series was published from 1967 to 1971 in the magazine MV-Comix of the Ehapa publishing company (as Ric, der Meisterdetektiv or Ric Vitess ) and from 1972 to 1979 by Koralle in ZACK and its offshoots, from 1978 to 1981 also as independent album series (the first Koralle album by Rick Master appeared in the series ZACK Album (there as volume 17) and was subsequently counted as volume 1 of the series). After Koralle ceased its comic strip activities, the series was first published by Bastei in the form of albums and paperbacks under the title "RICK", with the subtitle "Rick Hochet against the Underworld" going back to the original title (Bastei also published two illustrated prose- Novels, but then under the coral title Rick Master ). The first chronological German edition then started in the 1980s by Carlsen Verlag . It ran there up to volume 25 as a softcover and was continued by the publishing house Kult Editions in hardcover from volume 26, with volume 25 being reissued there later. This edition ran until 2015. The new adventures will be published by Splitter-Verlag from 2017 (including a new edition of Volume 1) after they have been printed in advance in the ZACK magazine .

Trivia

In the French original, Ric's name is a play on words. His full name refers to "Ricochet" , the term " ricochet" based on the verb ricocher (= bounce) , a very dynamic process.

Album editions

Tibet & Duchâteau (1963-2000)

  1. Kidnapped! (1963)
  2. The Mysterious Island (1964)
  3. Dangerous Challenge (1965)
  4. In the shadow of the chameleon (1966)
  5. A Devil's Web (1967)
  6. Abduction on the France (1968)
  7. The Secret of the Mask (1968)
  8. The Serpent's Slayer (1969)
  9. The Mysterious Doppelganger (1969)
  10. The Premium (1970)
  11. The Traitor (1970)
  12. The Horrors of the Night (1971)
  13. Satan's minions (1971)
  14. The Hangman's Trap (1972)
  15. Murder by the Full Moon (1972)
  16. A Star Is Kidnapped (1973)
  17. The Dead Live Longer (1973)
  18. Murder on the Death Cliff (1974)
  19. The Sign of Fear (1974)
  20. The Unlucky One (1975)
  21. The Devil Trio (1975)
  22. Alien Attack (1976)
  23. The Line of Death (1976)
  24. A Hot Trail (1977)
  25. Assassination attempt in the circus (1977)
  26. Persecution through the Centuries (1978)
  27. Neck in a Sling (1978)
  28. Halali for Rick Master (1979)
  29. The Billion Deal (1979)
  30. The Spirit of the Alchemist (1980)
  31. KO in 9 rounds (short stories, 1980)
  32. The Death Court (1981)
  33. Rick Master Scandal (1981)
  34. The Night of the Vampires (1982)
  35. The Black Death (1982)
  36. The Blood Arrow (1983)
  37. Under the Voodoo (1983)
  38. In the Face of Crime (1984)
  39. Lost in Hell (1984)
  40. The Deadly Doppelganger (1985)
  41. The House of Vengeance (1985)
  42. The Death List (1986)
  43. The Messengers of Death (1987)
  44. Rick Master vs. Sherlock Holmes (1987)
  45. The Attila Conspiracy (1988)
  46. Satan's Witnesses (1989)
  47. Devilish Twins (1989)
  48. Agatha's Secret (1990)
  49. The Enforcer from Beyond (1991)
  50. Crime in 2010 (1991)
  51. The Beast of the Apocalypse (1992)
  52. The Master of Illusion (1993)
  53. An Improvised Murder (1994)
  54. The Deadly Mask (1994)
  55. Who's Afraid of Hitchcock? (1995)
  56. One million tax free (1996)
  57. Kidnapping (1996)
  58. Rick Makes the Game (1997)
  59. The hand of death (1998)
  60. Crimes on the Internet (1998)
  61. The Hangman (1999)
  62. Comic Murders (2000)
  63. Witches Live Dangerously (2000)
  64. The Contract of the Century (2001)
  65. Panic on the Net (2002)
  66. Penthouse Story (2002)
  67. The Devil's Number (2003)
  68. Collected Crimes (2004)
  69. The Ice Man (2004)
  70. Silent Death (2005)
  71. The Last Ruler (2006)
  72. The Treasure of Marolles (2006)
  73. Murder in the Theater (2007)
  74. Deadly Puzzle (2008)
  75. The Houdini Code (2008)
  76. The Last Duel (2009)
  77. Murder of the Cross Puzzle (2010)

Van Liemt & Zidrou (from 2015)

  1. Rip, Rick !, 2015 ( RIP, Ric ! , 2015) ISBN 978-3943960518
  2. Murders in the French Garden, 2017 ( Meurtres dans un jardin français , 2016) ISBN 978-3958394872
  3. The perfect murder, 2019 ( Comment réussir un assassinat , 2018) ISBN 978-3958394889
  4. Favor for France, 2020 ( Tombé pour la France , 2020) ISBN 978-3958394896

Complete edition

Ric Hochet l'Intégrale has been published in France since March 2004 . A 25-volume complete edition based on this edition will be published by Splitter-Verlag from August 2017 . Publication begins with volume 11, as Kult Editions already published a 10-volume (incomplete) edition in anthologies in the years 2012–2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the Rick Master Complete Edition in the Comicforum
  2. ↑ Interview with Horst Gotta from Splitter-Verlag