Tanguy et Laverdure

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Les Aventures de Tanguy et Laverdure is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo, about the two pilots Michel Tanguy and Ernest Laverdure, and their adventures in the French Air Force. Initially titled Michel Tanguy, it made its debut in the first issue of the comics magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959.[1] The series provided Pilote with a competitor to the similar series Buck Danny serialised in Spirou and Dan Cooper of Tintin.

Tanguy et Laverdure has been translated into several languages such as German, Dutch, Danish, Indonesian, English, Spanish and Serbocroatian. It has also been adapted into a televised series titled Les Chevaliers du ciel, initially broadcast 1967-69, and 1988-91, eventually adapted into a 2005 film, Les Chevaliers du Ciel.

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Cover of L'École des Aigles (1961), the first Les Aventures de Michel Tanguy album
Cover of L'École des Aigles (1961), the first Les Aventures de Michel Tanguy album

By Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo

  • 1. L'École des Aigles (Dargaud, 1961)
  • 2. Pour l'Honneur des Cocardes (Dargaud, 1962)
  • 3. Danger dans le Ciel (Dargaud, 1963)
  • 4. Escadrille des Cigognes (Dargaud, 1964)
  • 5. Mirage sur l'Orient (Dargaud, 1965)
  • 6. Canon Bleu ne répond plus (Dargaud, 1966)
  • 7. Cap Zéro (Dargaud, 1967)
  • 8. Pirates du Ciel (Dargaud, 1967, with Jean Giraud)

By Jean-Michel Charlier and Jijé

  • 9. Les Anges Noirs (Dargaud, 1968)
  • 10. Mission Spéciale (Dargaud, 1968 with Albert Uderzo p.1-16)
  • 11. Destination Pacifique (Dargaud, 1969)
  • 12. Menace sur Mururoa (Dargaud, 1969)
  • 13. Lieutenant Double Bang (Dargaud, 1970)
  • 14. Baroud sur le Désert (Dargaud, 1970)
  • 15. Les Vampires attaquent la Nuit (Dargaud, 1971)
  • 16. La Terreur vient du Ciel (Dargaud, 1971)
  • Non-numbered. L'Avion qui tuait ses Pilotes (Hachette, 1971) - illustrated novelisation, not a comic
  • 17. Mission "Dernière chance" (Dargaud, 1972)
  • 18. Un DC.8 a disparu (Dargaud, 1973)
  • 19. La Mystérieuse Escadre Delta (Fleurus, 1979)
  • 21. Premières missions (Hachette, 1981)
  • 22. Station Brouillard (Hachette, 1982)

By Jean-Michel Charlier and Patrice Serres

  • 20. Opération Tonnerre (Novedi, 1981, with Jijé)
  • 23. Plan de Vol pour l'Enfer (Novedi, 1982)
  • 24. Espion venu du Ciel (Novedi, 1984)

By Jean-Michel Charlier and Al Coutelis

  • 25. Survol interdit (Novedi, 1988)

By Jean-Claude Laidin and Yvan Fernandez

  • 26 Prisonniers des Serbes (Dargaud, 2002)

By Jean-Claude Laidin and Renaud Garreta

  • 27. Opération Opium (Dargaud, 2005)

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Footnotes
  1. ^ BDoubliées. Pilote année 1959 (French).
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