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List of Valérian and Laureline books

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This is a list of all of the official Valérian and Laureline books. Each story was written by Pierre Christin, drawn by Jean-Claude Mézières and coloured by Evelyn Tran-Lé.

Contents

Albums

Every Valérian adventure from Bad Dreams to The Rage of Hypsis was first serialised in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote. The first story to be collected in graphic novel album format was The City of Shifting Waters which was numbered "1" in the series. When Bad Dreams was eventually collected as an album, it was given the number "0" to reflect its position as the debut adventure in the series. The dates given in the following list are the year of first publication of each story in album format:

Short stories

Seven short stories were also published in the quarterly, digest-sized Super Pocket Pilote between 1969 and 1970 and later collected in Across the Pathways of Space (Par Les Chemins De l’Espace) (1997):

Other publications

  • The Inhabitants of the Sky: The Cosmic Atlas of Valerian and Laureline (Les Habitants du Ciel: Atlas Cosmique de Valérian et Laureline) (ISBN 2205049844) is an illustrated encyclopedia that gives further background detail to the many alien creatures Valérian and Laureline have encountered in their travels.
  • Mézières' Extras (Les Extras de Mézières) (ISBN 2205044435) compiles various miscellaneous Valérian related works including stamps, murals, images from the pilot episode of the proposed animated series in 1991 and Laureline's Playboy spread as well as other non-Valérian related artwork.
  • Mézières' Extras No.2 (My Fifth Element) (Les Extras de Mézières No.2 (Mon Cinquieme Element)) (ISBN 2205047515) primarily covers the work Mézières did on the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element but does also show where that film was influenced by the Valérian albums.

    • References

    List of Valérian and Laureline books Wikipedia
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