CREATOR

Name: Les Éditions Dargaud (French publishing corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1936 by Georges Dargaud  (1911-1990). Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Dargaud in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation first published novels for women, and then production of comic books began in 1943.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2001. Stopped in 2012 after 7 issues.

The main character is Edith Hardy, a 40-year old beautiful recent widow, who, in 1955, has to open an investigation bureau in Paris in order to make a living. Her main lines of business are searches for missing persons and inheritance problems, but she is soon whirled into more serious cases spawn by the so-called Cold War that is going on during the 1950s.   

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Edith Hardy

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 2001
#3 - 2004
#4 - 2006

#5 - 2008
#6 - 2009
#7 - 2012

 

 

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