{"product_id":"the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-vol-1-hardcover","title":"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1 (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe iconic adventure series celebrates its 50th anniversary! In atmospheric Belle Époque Paris, feisty adventuress Adèle contends with dinosaurs, demons, and death cults.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis, 1911. One gloomy night at the Museum of Natural History, a pterodactyl escapes from its display and wreaks havoc upon the city. Enter journalist extraordinaire Adèle Blanc-Sec, who must use her wits and firepower to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery. An enchanting antihero, Adèle is fearless, brash, and thoroughly ill-tempered, smoking and cursing her way through the case ― always barely escaping peril to tell her tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasterful French cartoonist Jacques Tardi created his iconic \u003cem\u003eThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec\u003c\/em\u003e series in 1976. Set in the atmospheric Belle Époque Paris, the series features supernatural monsters, mad science, steampunk aesthetic, murder, humor, and delightful derring-do. This new collection of classic Adèle stories includes four episodes: “Pterror Over Paris,” “The Demon of the Eiffel Tower,” “The Mad Scientist,” and “Mummies on Parade.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn celebration of Adèle's 50th anniversary, Fantagraphics is thrilled to re-issue these classic stories in luxuriously redesigned hardcover editions. While Fantagraphics published translations of the first four Adèle adventures 15 years ago, this new series will bring the complete 10-episode run of the series into English for the very first time. With an introduction by British journalist and comics historian Cynthia Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull-color illustrations throughout\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UCS\/Lunar Comics Distributors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48440940134641,"sku":"979887500238052999","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/9865\/1469\/files\/979887500238052999.jpg?v=1784931631","url":"https:\/\/vaultofmidnight.shop\/products\/the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-vol-1-hardcover","provider":"Vault of Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}