This sixth volume of the collected edition introduces the second creative team assigned to the new adventures of Blake & Mortimer: André Juillard and Yves Sente, who would take turns with Jean Van Hamme and Ted Benoit. The first album of the new duet was The Voronov Plot, a spy thriller set in Russia in which our heroes try to avert a bacteriological war. The next year, Benoit and Van Hamme’s next creation came out: The Strange Encounter, a time travel story that returns to the science fic...

The two-parter Professor Sato’s Three Formulae was the last Blake and Mortimer adventure written by Jacobs, and its second part would only be completed years after his death by Bob de Moor. A story set in Japan in the author’s time, where the advanced technologies on display look more like foreshadowing than science-fiction. The third album in this collected edition, The Francis Blake Affair is a pure spy thriller, the sort that Jean Van Hamme does so well – a descent into Hell for Blake a...