The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc Sec Vol. 1 by Jacques Tardi video preview
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle BlancSec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon by Jacques Tardi 96page fullcolor 8. 5 x hardcover ISBN: 9781606993828 Both a riproaring adventure series set in preWorld War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle BlancSec has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adèle having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi s West Coast Blues, You Are There, and It Was the War of the Trenches, launches a spectacular, newly retranslated, hardcover series that intends to collect every one of its nine (soon ten) volumes. In this premiere installment, Adèle becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful onstage murder, a looming execution by guillotine, and a demon from the depths of hell plus of course
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