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Paperback. Condition: New. Horrified at the memory of what he'd done during the Los Angeles riots, Ian tries to commit suicide. But his body turns out to be simply too durable. Injured but alive, he's taken in by the inhabitants of the city's slums. Meanwhile, the rest of team 21, along with Ian's creators, are summoned to the Pentagon where a rather unusual general orders them to help the American government locate the android. and destroy him!

Paperback. Condition: New. Bandits, cattle drives, fist fights. Adventure is everywhere under a Western sky. Lucky Luke arrives in Nugget Gulch in the company of another lonesome rider, John 'The Philanthropist' Smith. The town is buzzing with excitement over the coming horserace, and the considerable prize promised to the winner. Financially embarrassed, Luke signs up, counting on his exceptional mount to ensure victory. Unfortunately, Jolly Jumper is stolen just before the race! The lonesome cowboy will have to get by without his old friend back this time.

Paperback. Condition: New. Francq, Philippe (illustrator). In the middle of the night, a man runs through the narrow back alleys of Venice. Three men are after him. He breaks into a travel agency, where he faxes Winch a hastily scribbled message before being gunned down by his pursuers. The person who hands Largo Winch the fax in New York is also killed. The message says only: Beware of the doge. Our millionaire businessman hero thinks his friend, the gorgeous Charity, could be in trouble and heads for Italy. They are invited to a masked ball, where they indeed meet a doge. A Renaissance-era term for the chief magistrate of the former republics of Venice and Genoa.

Paperback. Condition: New. Tabary, Jean (illustrator). Iznogoud is Grand Vizier to Haroun al Plassid, ruler of Baghdad. And he has only one dream: becoming Caliph instead of the Caliph. With the lazy assistance of his faithful servant Wa'at Alahf, he tries his worst again and again-to no avail. But the usually oblivious Caliph has finally caught a hint of Iznogoud's evil reputation among the people. To help the one he believes to be his friend, he sets off on a quest to find the legendary vegetable that brings out a man's kinder nature: the carrot.

Paperback. Condition: New. Vance, William (illustrator). With the conspiracy that nearly claimed his life dismantled, XIII can finally turn all his attention towards uncovering his own distant past. Armed with everything he could find on Jason Fly-the man he seems to be-he heads to Green Falls, where he grew up. The problem with amnesia is that you never know exactly what you'll dig up when you go home again. And.is everything really solved concerning the presidential assassination that cost him his memory?

Paperback. Condition: New. Two of Largo's employees have been killed in his headquarters in New York. His friend Charity has been kidnapped in the middle of the Piazza San Marco. His only lead is a mysterious message: Beware of the Doge - As the bodies start piling up, Largo - aided by the beautiful Domenica - turns the Serenissima upside down to find the young woman and unravel the truth before it is too late. Balls, duels, boat chases, revenge - Ah, Venice!

Paperback. Condition: New. Melusine is a sorcerer's apprentice, funny and dynamic, who does everything possible to become a powerful witch. Unfortunately, she's not always successful, and very often her tricks turn against her and her friends. But tremble, poor mortals, for it's the return of Halloween, the day of witches and the walking dead! This festival must be celebrated with dignity, with great smashing of pumpkins and rotten tricks. The opportunity rises for Melusine and her friends to show what they can do.And then to start a new storm of gags and catastrophes!

Paperback. Condition: New. Rosinski, Grzegorz (illustrator). A wandering Thorgal is captured and enslaved by Orgoff, a cruel man who appointed himself the local lord after defeating the old one. Orgoff wields the dreadful power of the Sun Sword, which the peasants say makes him invulnerable. Thorgal, of course, is not convinced. Escaping, he encounters the last of the rebels against the new order-and an old enemy. Together, they will have to defeat Orgoff and his allies and recover the Sun Sword.

Paperback. Condition: New. Vance, William (illustrator). Having escaped from the clutches of Irina's organisation. XIII is on the loose in America but still being hunted by both Giordino's NSA and Irina's top assassin, Jessica. As he tries to return to his friends in San Miguel, he's forced to dodge bullets and outsmart various traps and ambushes. With the odds stacked against him, he will have to rely on help from an enemy and his own mounting anger at the constant string of attacks.

Paperback. Condition: New. Juszezak (illustrator). John Midas is a financial genius. For years he's made a killing on the stock market. He's one of the richest men on earth - and on Wall Street, he's a legend. The only thing he loves more than money is his daughter, who lives a simple life away from his gold-plated world. Now Midas has his eye set on Brazil and its currency-but fate may not let him pull off his scheme without extracting a steep price.

Paperback. Condition: New. Janry (illustrator). Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of them! Since he offers to pay for their expedition, the two fearless reporters agree to take the patients with them as they attempt to locate two explorers lost in 1938 near the Nepalese border - in the middle of a war!

Paperback. Condition: New. Dupre (illustrator). Teze has been appointed head of a food agency by his father, who trusts him to stand up to big business interests. He notices a sudden recent resurgence in the number of tests done to determine the presence of mad cow disease. So far, all the results have been negative, but the fact that this testing is happening on such a huge scale sends alarm bells ringing. Teze now has to deal with the interests of the intensive farming lobby. He becomes increasingly frustrated by the fact that several of the big companies are trying to influence his thinking and to convince him to let them off the hook. Teze stands firm and introduces an even more stringent form of testing. This time, the results seem to point to a new, more virulent strain of mad cow disease. Could man's gluttony be at the heart of the problem?

Paperback. Condition: New. Sleuthing, doping and the Trojan War: What is the price to pay for a gold medal at the Olympics? Paris Troy is a sprinter whose 100m record has remained undefeated for nine years. He has never cheated before, but now, as the Istanbul Olympic Games approach, a bad injury hinders his performance and a newcomer, Ace, is threatening his dominance. Paris finds it increasingly difficult to push himself to improve his time, so when his brother suggests doping, Paris is tempted. Will the runner let this highly destructive element into his life? What price is he ready to pay for victory? Is victory real when achieved with chemical help?

Paperback. Condition: New. Marini, Enrico (illustrator). Betrayed by the beautiful Ansea Latal, the Scorpion has been captured by the Turks. But he cannot afford to tarry: Rochnan and his monks are close on his tail, Ansea is on her way to Cappadocia to find the true cross of Saint Peter, and, back in Rome, Trebaldi is preparing his reign of terror. As a prisoner or a fugitive, alone or in the reluctant company of people who have sworn his death, the Scorpion will have to reach Karabas before the agents of the Nine Families and discover the truth hidden deep inside the Holy Valley.

Paperback. Condition: New. Clarke, Harry (illustrator). Take out your nicest shrouds, dust off your coffins, and slick your spider webs: Melusine invites you to the great vampire ball. The little witch is back in a new series of gags, dreadfully funny as always. All her family is there: the witches Adrazelle and Cancrelune, of course, but also Mister and Madam, the owners of the haunted castle.

Paperback. Condition: New. Willy Lambil (illustrator). After an even bloodier battle than usual, the Union army is out of men. But so are the Rebels, and General Alexander decides to retreat and come back with reinforcements quickly before the enemy can do the same. To move faster, he leaves his wounded - including Stark and Chesterfield - behind in the nearby town of Rumberley, in the care of its inhabitants Corporal and Blutch. But Rumberley's a rebel village and Stark and Chesterfield have never been known to shy away from a fight.

Paperback. Condition: New. Tabary (illustrator). In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place-melting Djinn, invisibility spell, cursed diamond, voodoo doll - But no amount of cunning or obstinacy can make up for sheer, hilariously bad luck.

Paperback. Condition: New. Francq, Philippe (illustrator). A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his company because of a Group W decision. Shocked by the knowledge that he is indirectly responsible, Winch becomes an object of hatred for the nation, and his two best friends abandon him. When suspicions arise that shady dealings led to unnecessary restructurings, he launches an investigation to identify the real culprits.

Paperback. Condition: New. Tabary (illustrator). In Baghdad, the Caliph's Grand Vizier Iznogoud has one aim in life: to become Caliph instead of the Caliph. The benign ruler, Haroun al Plassid is blind to his vizier's scheming to get rid of him and generally had rather take a nap. Iznogoud is faithfully seconded by Wa'at Alahf in trying to put his fiendish designs into action.

Paperback. Condition: New. In the South of France village of Paillar, everyone is rugby-obsessed and even the roundabouts are oval! The Paillar team is afraid of one thing only: that some Englishmen will turn the local pub into a tea salon! When the All Blacks look for sparring partners to train for the World Cup, the Paillar star players - Light Bulb, Fat Neck, the Anaesthetist, Trumpeteer and Romeo - can't resist the call of the southern hemisphere. Cauliflower ears, broken noses and black eyes aplenty!

Paperback. Condition: New. Melusine is a sorcerer's apprentice, funny and dynamic, who does everything she can to become a powerful witch. Unfortunately, she's not always successful and very often her tricks backfire. Pumpkins, monsters, a haunted castle and prince charming - all the ingredients of a great fairy tale are there to delight young readers.

Paperback. Condition: New. Papyrus, a young boy in Ancient Egypt, heads off for Sakkarah, where a statue must be erected to give praise to the Pharaoh, with his friend Imhotep. En route, they save an old man threatened by a crocodile. The Pharaoh has been poisoned and his life hangs in the balance. So when the trio gets to Sakkarah, the old man impersonates the Pharaoh while Papyrus and Imhot must to find an antidote for the Pharaoh before it's too late. This series tells the tribulations of Papyrus and the princess Theti-Cheri in a precise reconstruction of Ancient Egypt.

Paperback. Condition: New. Pagot, Didier (illustrator). Vanity, cloning and the myth of Narcissus: when the race for power overrules ethical probity. In the US, the Presidential campaign heats up. Narcissus Shimmer, who is campaigning for re-election as head of State, leads all the polls. Ron Grubb, a private investigator, is hired by the opposition to dig out the dirt on Narcissus Shimmer and bring him down. Grubb discovers a baby shrouded in secret, whose birth was monitored by one of the country's leading biotechnologists. Has Grubb discovered the first human clone? Will the most powerful man on earth, Narcissus Shimmer, be dethroned?

Paperback. Condition: New. Rosinski, Grzegorz (illustrator). Three years ago, Thorgal lost his memory. Kriss of Valnor convinced him that he was her husband Shaigan, a merciless pirate, and they have been terrorising everyone - even the Vikings - ever since. Aaricia and Wolf Cub, exiled when Thorgal was recognised by one of the men from the northern village, have been captured and brought to Shaigan's lair. In the end, it's up to young Jolan to rescue his family with the help of a very special traveller.from the future!

Paperback. Condition: New. Rosinski, Grzegorz (illustrator). Still travelling with Kris of Valnor, Thorgal runs afoul of a local tribe. When a mysterious old woman offers him a chance to escape the hostile villagers, he accepts. But there's more to the bargain: She says that if he can make his way into the Invisible Fortress, he'll be able to erase his name from the Stone of the Gods, cancelling his destiny-and finally have a chance at a normal life.

Paperback. Condition: New. Vrancken, Benard (illustrator). Larry B. Max is an unusual specialist from a little-known branch of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service), the all-powerful tax-collecting agency of the United States, which has every technological method at its disposal to investigate possible links between high finance and high crime. Max investigates two seemingly-unconnected murders. The former president of an Asian country, who was accused of embezzlement, is bumped off in France. Meanwhile, the right-hand man of a corrupt US mayor meets a grizzly end in the Californian desert. Max finds a strange message stating Silicia, 10 am, Ocean Drive and tries to figure out what it all means. Meanwhile, a mysterious young lady seems to be one step ahead of him and erasing one clue after the other.

Paperback. Condition: New. Theti-Cheri, daughter of Pharaoh, and her friend and protector Papyrus are on a mission to bring back to Thebes the mummies of 10 archers, long-dead warriors of Pharaoh Sekenenra-Taa, honoured for their sacrifice against the Hyksos invaders. But the mummies lie in the desert, domain of the god Seth, and the malevolent deity will use the dead themselves in his attempts to destroy the intruders. Separated from the expedition, Papyrus and Theti-Cheri will have to fend off wave after wave of evil mummies in order to survive and carry out their sacred mission.

Paperback. Condition: New. Turk (illustrator). Scoutmaster Musical Heron (aka top spy Colonel Clifton) and his troop must investigate when one of them is abducted while collecting kindling in the woods. The abductors are demanding a ransom, with which their leader plans to complete his collection of Ming vases. After a huge commotion, the Boy Scouts go on an unconventional treasure hunt.

Paperback. Condition: New. Part of a series which tells the tribulations of a young fisherman, Papyrus, and the princess Theti-Cheri, daughter of the Pharaoh Merenptha, in a very precise reconstruction of old Egypt: the XIXth dynasty. Mischievous Papyrus saves the princess, becoming her friend and protector. They plan a journey to Abou-Simbel, the princess and Papyrus face two bands of plunderers, who are after the treasure of the temple of Ramses!

Paperback. Condition: New. Mauricet (illustrator). Introductory volume of the series following the adventures of Robin and Max, and which features all the classic fantasy elements: sorcery. fairies, werewolves, ghosts.In the first album Robin, while looking through his forensic scientist father's files, discovers the photo of a man whose body is pierced by hundred of holes. Convinced that this is the work of a vampire, Max and Robin go in search of the murderer.