Story-world chronology reading-order, for the original Adventures of Blake & Mortimer

Story-world chronology reading-order, for the original Adventures of Blake & Mortimer.

The English translation titles listed below are the Edgar P. Jacobs original volumes, or ‘albums’ as the French and Belgians term them. Edgar Pierre Jacobs’s Blake & Mortimer appeared in 1946 and had the ‘clear-line’ art style of Tintin and similar lettering. They told of Professor Philip Mortimer, nuclear physicist, and Captain Francis Blake, the dashing head of British spy service MI5. In a slightly ‘alternative history’ world, the pair encounter adventures in the realms of extraordinary science, mysterious archaeology, and sinister plots. Imagine the 64-page Commando format crossed with Tintin and James Bond.

All these are available for the Kindle Fire 10″. Dates are for the ‘in-story world’, not the date of publication.

1946:

The Secret of the Swordfish – Parts 1, 2, 3.

1950:

The Mystery of the Great Pyramid – Parts 1, 2.

1953:

The Yellow M.

1955:

Atlantis Mystery.

1957:

S.O.S. Meteors.

1960:

The Time Trap. (Le Piege diabolique)

1964:

The Affair of the Necklace.

1965-67.

Professor Sato’s Three Formulae – Parts 1, 2. (Completed posthumously with Part two).

There are other volumes created later, by others, that ably ‘fill in’ around the timeline. Of these, you may want to start with “Plutarch’s Staff“, which provides an ‘origin story’ for Blake & Mortimer set in 1944.