Michael Valliant comics

I've managed to source one of the comics that was translated to English for a reasonable price, but my question is, how long are the comics in actual pages? I'm sure there are many of you in mainland Europe that have read them so I though I would ask here.

Thanks.

The first ones are about 60 pages, then they dropped to ~45 pages. Which one did you buy ?

I haven't bought it yet, but it is called "The unknown driver" is that one any good?
I think they only translated about 3 or 4 to English unfortunately. Best idea may be to learn French

Must be this one, "The faceless driver" would be the accurate translation of the title.



It's the tome 2, it's very old (1960) so it has a cool vintage feeling

This is the one i was thinking of buying. It's called "The mystery driver" it's the cheapest version I've seen of the English translations.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0965138011/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467713386&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=michael+valliant&dpPl=1&dpID=51cenM1V79L&ref=plSrch

a big chance you might be able to drive it in rfactor in the future


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Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Must be this one, "The faceless driver" would be the accurate translation of the title.



It's the tome 2, it's very old (1960) so it has a cool vintage feeling

je viens juste de me le retaper hier soir ( pour la 400 fois depuis mes 6 ans ) , toujours tres bon les" michel vaillant ".

le 8 eme pilote est excellent

Le Pilote Sans Visage is one of the best of the early comics. 60+ pages give you quite a lot to read.

I have the full series, in both Dutch and French, and a few special editions. HSO's Indy 500 made we want to read some albums again because Indy featured quite a few times in the series. The detail and realism are excellent, but I'm not a big fan of their recent reboot. I wasn't much into the final volumes of the original series. I used to read them again and again, now I read them once and they're off to the bookshelf without seeing the light of day again.

The first 30 albums contain a high level of American racing, certainly for a European series. In album 1 he takes on the Indy 500, in album 3 he goes to Sebring, album 6 sees his team entering the Carrera Panamericana, they return to Indy and Daytona in album 11, attempt a Land Speed Record at Bonneville in album 14 (which is the first of the 46 page albums), Nascar in Riverside/Daytona/Darlington in album 15, US motocross in album 20, Sebring again in 21, a rally from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in 22, his teammate Steve Warson tries to win at Indy in albums 26 and 28 and there's a San Francisco car chase (wonder where that idea came from...) in album 29.

The series also premiered a Lotus-Honda 25 years before that combination made it to F1. Admittedly, it was a Honda chassis with a Lotus engine in the back, but still it was 1964, 25 years before Lotus and the Japanese worked together.

If you're considering buying the whole series in French, which I admit is quite an investment, you could buy the "Integrale Michel Vaillant" series. Those books contain 3 to 5 volumes, and unpublished shorter sorties which you won't find elsewhere, and it might cost less then it would cost to buy the albums separately.

François Remmen wrote:

a big chance you might be able to drive it in rfactor in the future


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nice car, can we race with such a car next season? I love the 60s