Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics

Belgian comics

Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history...

 series created by the Belgian

Belgium

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 writer

Comic book creator

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 and comics artist

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 Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Belgian comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

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 Tintin

Tintin (magazine)

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 in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Les Editions du Lombard

Le Lombard

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The main protagonists of the adventures are Philip Mortimer, a leading British

United Kingdom

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 scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake of MI5

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. The main antagonist is their sworn enemy, Colonel Olrik, who has appeared in all but one of the books.