Heroic was an A4 format comic strip published by French publishing house SAGE featuring humour, adventure and Western comic strip stories which ran from 1950 to 1957. From 1956 to 1957 Heroic carried serializations (in French translation) of several Biggles novels.[1]
Johns stories in Heroic[]
Issue | Title | Date | Remarks |
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No. 131-144 | Biggles et le tresor des filibustiers | 1 Sep 1955-1 Mar 1956 | Serialization of Biggles Flies West, with illustrations by Raphael Marcello |
No. 146-164 | Biggles en croisiere | 29 Mar 1956-6 Dec 1956 | Serialization of The Cruise of the Condor, with illustrations by Raphael Marcello and F. Fusco |
No. 165-172 1-6 (2nd series) |
Biggles en Mongolie | 20 Dec 1956-28 Apr 1957 10 Apr 1957-25 Jun 1957 |
Serialization of Biggles in the Gobi, with illustrations by F. Fusco. 2nd series in a small format. |
Gallery[]
A typical illustration. This is from Biggles en croisiere and is drawn by F. Fusco. Can't really tell which one is Smyth--one of those behind.
See Also[]
Comics based on the works of W. E. Johns also appear in other series published by Artima/Aredit:
- Biggles - the main or "home" series and features adaptation of full length novels.
- Tex Bill
- Thierry
- Jacques Rogy
- Olympic
- Temeraire
- King - Gimlet
- Commando - A story from Comrades in Arms
- Tina - Worrals
- Cosmos - Kings of Space
And in series published by SAGE:
- Heroic
- Le Petit Sheriff