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Le château maudit

Le château maudit

If “La Marque Jaune” is the best cover illustration among Editions du Lombard’s 1950s albums, that of “Château maudit” takes first place among those of Editions Dupuis. It condenses the ingredients of the framework imagined by Jean-Michel Charlier whose imagination, in the recollection of Eddy Paape, was not necessarily sparked by a random news item. “Charlier always enjoyed stories about monsters; there were lots of films about vampires at the time. Boris Karloff was all the rage…”

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