La Forge de Vulcain
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| Released | 1973 | |
| Publisher | Dupuis | |
| Genre | Bande dessinée | |
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| L'Orgue du Diable (1973) |
La Forge de Vulcain (1973) |
Aventures électroniques (1974) |
La Forge de Vulcain (Vulcan's Forge) is the third book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1973. (ISBN 2-8001-0668-9)
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An oil platform near Martinique is threatened by some unnatural tidal activity ever since one of the drilling attempts yielded a crystalline, strongly magnetic and near-indestructible ore. The material closely resembles that of an orb Yoko was given by Khany as a farewell gift in Le Trio de l'étrange. The trio travels to Martinique and visits the oil platform. Here, they meet the Vineans again, who - under the direction of Karpan - are undertaking a gargantuan project: they are raising an ancient submerged volcano's plug to create a new continent.
The plug is pushed towards the surface with magma, transported towards Martinique by means of pipelines. It is one of these pipelines that was destroyed by the platform's drillings and the escaped magma threathens to ignite the nearby oil well. Karpan doesn't seem to care, so Yoko and her friends must race against time to prevent a huge disaster which threatens both humans and Vineans. In the resulting struggle, Karpan is killed when a worker realizes that he has gone totally mad and drops him into a magma inferno, but to stop the catastrophe more radical measures have to be used: the hydrocarbon gas (which is created by the heated oil) must be released into Earth's atmosphere to relieve the rising pressure in the oil field.
After the operation is successfully executed, Khany announces a plan which incorporates the return of the Vineans to their home planet, but she parts with the promise not to leave before seeing Yoko and her friends again.
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| The Yoko Tsuno series by Roger Leloup |
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| Main characters |
| Yoko Tsuno | Vic Video | Pol Pitron |
| Books |
| Le Trio de l'étrange | L'Orgue du Diable | La Forge de Vulcain | Aventures électroniques | Message pour l'éternité | Les Trois soleils de Vinéa | La Frontière de la vie | Les Titans | La Fille du vent | La Lumière d'Ixo | La Spirale du temps | La Proie et l'ombre | Les Archanges de Vinéa | Le Feu de Wotan | Le Canon de Kra | Le Dragon de Hong Kong | Le Matin du monde | Les Exilés de Kifa | L'Or du Rhin | L'Astrologue de Bruges | La Porte des âmes | La Jonque céleste | La Pagode des brumes | Le Septième code |
| Related articles |
| Vinea | L'écume de l'aube |
