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 1978*. Stopped in 1997 after 13 issues**.

The title character is a pipe smoking air pilot who is hired to perform diverse odd missions using his airplane Le Vieux Pélican (The Old Pelican). The jobs are often quite hard, but he uses his cunning and stoic nature to see them through.

The full title of the first 11 issues was Les Aventures de Martin Milan.

* Initially, a series by the same title was published - partly by Dargaud - from 1971 to 1975 (5 issues).
** Issues 1-4 and 12-13 were published by Dargaud.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Martin Milan

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 1978
#3 - 1979
#6 - 1982

#8 - 1983
#11 - 1986
#13 - 1997

 

 

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