![]() ![]() Their adventures taking them all around the world in several dangerous missions which prove their courage and brave as ardent defenders of the American ideals. In these new adventures which take place between the 80s and today Buck Danny and his friends alternate the exchange activity in the US Naval Aviation with their duty in the US Air Force ranks being involved as F-14 and F-18 pilots, training in the USAF Aggressors group, SR-71 and TR-1 pilots, and F-22 operative test flight. Jean-Michel Charlier restarts the Buck Danny adventures with the drawings of Francis Bergese who takes both the rule of writer and draftsman ten years later after the death of Charlier. Worthy to be mentioned are: the intricate rescue of a Mercury astronaut and relevant capsule, the experimental flight on the X-15, the loss and the theft of an atomic weapon, the dangerous story with the Blue Angels acrobatic team, and the fighting against an international criminal organisation involved in drug production and sale.Īfter the death of Victor Hubinon in 1979 the series was stopped for four years. In the adventures placed during the 60s and 70s the three aviators are protagonists of exciting and dangerous situations. This female pilot is the chief of an international mercenary organisation, which offers it’s expionage and sabotage job to the best payer. In this period Buck Danny and his two pals meet for the first time the criminal spy and mercenary Jane Hamilton, known as Lady X. The adventures which take place during the 50s are mainly related to US naval aviation with a variety of situations like test flights, industrial expionage, international pace keeping etc. Their second Korean war tour is shown in the first story of the new "Classic" spin-off adventures created by Jean-Michel Arroyo and Frederic Zumbiehl.Īfter the Korean war Buck Danny and his friends joint the US Navy for a long exchange pilots program. At the end of the 40s, the three brave pilots are again enlisted in the USAF as test pilots and then are involved in two war tours in Korea. After the war, the three pilots left the armed forces and join a "shady" private airline company in the Middle East. The first issues of Charlier, some minor stories by Bergese and some of the new "classic" spin-off adventures are related to WWII in the Pacific and the Indocine scene. Of course in this series, the temporary logic is not considered and the main characters, for evident reasons, never aged, even if they and their stories have advanced with the passage of time. They are US pilots and they get involved in a series of aviation, war, international intrigues and spy stories, starting from the beginning of WWII until today. The main characters are Buck Danny, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson. Planned are (without prejudice): AIR FORCE ONE, volume 60 in the main series (2023) and the Classic adventure Buck Danny #10 titled MOLOTOK-41 NE REPOND PLUS (2023). After the first pre-publication in the French weekly comic magazine SPIROU, volume 455 from January 2, 1947, this series got its first album publication in 1948, and is still being published and reissued, with today a number of 65 different albums. But after 13 pages, Troisfontaines transferred his task of scenario-writing to the Belgian scenarist and drawer Jean-Michael Charlier, who lead this comic series for about 50 years. With nearly 16,000 entries and more than 13,000 DVD listings, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide remains “head and shoulders above the rest.” (The New York Times) Also included are a list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos, official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17, and Leonard's list of recommended films.The French-Belgian based aviation comic series LES AVENTURES DE BUCK DANNY (THE ADVENTURES OF BUCK DANNY) was created in 1946 by the Belgian journalist Georges Troisfontaines and the Belgian drawer Victor Hubinon. This capstone edition covers the modern era while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss-and those you can-from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. (Note: No new reviews have been added to this edition) Now that streaming services like Netflix and Hulu can deliver thousands of movies at the touch of a button, the only question is: What should I watch? Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers the masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar the finest foreign films ever made. Previously published as Leonard Maltin’s 2015 Movie Guide, this capstone edition includes a new Introduction by the author. ![]()
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