Valiant Michel
See also: Valiant Michel (homonymy)
Michel Vaillant is the hero of a series of Cartoon created by Jean Graton. It makes its appearance in 1957 in Tintin , in a short history in four boards. Four other stories of the same format will follow, before the publication of the first album in 1959. It will be published in Tintin until in 1976. The author will be assisted of his third wire Philippe Graton, which will take over completely in 1994, with the assistance of the Studio Graton for the realization.
Synopsis
Characters
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- Valiant Michel
- Francoise Latour
- Steve Warson
- Julie Wood
- the family Valiant
- Gabrièle Spangenberg
- Yves Douléac
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- the leader
- Ruth
- Bob Cramer
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the cars
Albums
Exploits of Valiant Michel
New prize list
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New Prize list 1: valiant Michel - Return to Königsfeld (2000)
- New Prize list 2: Labourdet #1 - Nor you… Nor him! (2001)
- New Prize list 3: Ca, it is sport (2002)
- New Palmarès 4: Labourdet #2 - the rival (2002)
- New Prize list 5: Valiant Michel - File V2001 (2003)
- New Prize list 6: unknown of the turn of France (2003)
- New Prize list 7: Labourdet #3 - the truth comes from the desert (2003)
- New Palmarès 8: Labourdet #4 - the cruising of the snake (2004)
- New Prize list 9: the Uncle Paul 1 - 12 true stories of exploits and discovered (2004)
- New Prize list 10: Labourdet #5 - the false step (2005)
- New Prize list 11: the Uncle Paul 2 - 13 true stories heroic and fantastic (2005)
- New Prize list 12: the Uncle Paul 3 - 12 true stories of exploits in time of war (2006)
- New Prize list 13: Labourdet #6 - dangerous Plays (2006)
- New Prize list 14: Labourdet #7 - the neighbor to mitigate (2007)
Valiant the Michel files
A series of documentary were published the principal series parallel to. They are devoted to the automobile sport or celebrities who are associated for him.
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Tome 1 - James Dean - struck down passion (1995)
- Tome 2 - Jacky Ickx - the enfant terrible (1996)
- Tome 3 - Steve McQueen - the mechanical man (1997)
- Tome 4 - Honda - 50 years of passion (1998)
- Tome 5 - Coluche - It is the passion of a guy… (1999)
- Tome 6 - Ayrton Senna - fire crowned (2002)
- Volume 7 - Enzo Ferrari - the last emperor (2005)
- Volume 8 - Fangio - the man who was King (2006)
- Tome 9 - Pescarolo - the marathonian (2006)
Special albums
Three special albums were carried out:
Julie Wood
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Volume 1: a named girl Julie Wood (1976)
- Volume 2: Defend yourself Julie (1976)
- Tome 3: 500 insane with the departures… (1977)
- Volume 4: No gift for Julie (1978)
- Volume 5: the cursed motorcyclist (1979)
- Volume 6: a bear, a monkey… and a motorcycle combination (1979)
- Volume 7: Hurricane on Daytona (1980)
- Volume 8: Bowl of gold (1980)
Small sizes
Michel Vaillant also was taken again in small size. Initially at My Newspaper in the review Kings of the Exploit (N°69 with 74), then in its own review at EAR (Editions International presses) the time of 4 numbers (1982-1983).
Here the list of the new titles:
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the Hero of the Paul Ricard (1972)
- Suspense in the Paul Ricard (1973)
- Duel in the Paul Ricard (1974)
- Photo Finish (1974)
- Challenge in the Paul Ricard (1976)
- Trap for Steve Warson (1976)
- Full fires on Valiant Michel and Steve Warson (1976)
- Julie Wood in the Paul Ricard (1980)
- Escort for Valiant Michel (1980)
- the Great events Citroen (1981)
- Challenge ATC (1983)
- the Rage to gain (1989)
- Return towards the future (1989)
- the Mystery of contact TS 750 (1993)
- Champions of Thalys (1997)
- Pre-grid ( 1997)
- Operation Armada (1998)
- the Full one with infos (2000)
Publicities
Michel Vaillant was also used in advertizing albums carried out for car manufacturers like Renault or Ford, of the oil groups like Elf or Chevron… the albums of the series also were the subject of special republications for commercial distribution in service stations, post offices or great events of mechanical sport.
Adaptations
Michel Vaillant was the subject of several adaptation:- a Televised series in 13 episodes 26 minutes entitled Adventures of Valiant Michel .
- a Film entitled Valiant Michel, realized by Louis-Pascal Couvelaire, with Sagamore Stévenin, left with the cinema in 2003.
- a series of cartoons in 65 episodes 26 minutes.
See too
Related articles
External bonds
- the official site of Valiant Michel
- the site of the fanclub of Valiant Michel
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