Bruno Brazil is a Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 series written by Greg, under the pseudonym Louis Albert, and drawn by William Vance

William Vance

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. It was initially serialised in the comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics and magazines.In the early years of its history, magazines had a large place on the comics market and were often the only place where comics were published. Most of them were kids-targeted.In the 1970s,...

 Tintin

Tintin (magazine)

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, first appearing on January 17, 1967. The first album publication was in 1969, while the latest album was first published in 1995.

Synopsis

Bruno Brazil is the leader of a small, elite combat unit of the American secret service, the "Cayman Command", of which each member has some special skills. Together they fight crime and exotic threats.

Characters

• Bruno Brazil, the main protagonist. An experienced spy-warrior
• Gaucho Morales, a skillful gangster. A member of the team due to his talents and contacts.
• Whip Rafale, a previous circus artist, and expert with a whip.
• Texas Bronco, a former rodeo
  Rodeo
  Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
  
   cowboy, strong as an ox.
• Billy Brazil, Bruno Brazil's younger brother. Fresh out of military academy.
• Lafayette called "Big Boy", a cunning former jockey.
• Tony Nomade called "Le Nomade", a replacement after the disappearance of Big Boy.
• Le Colonel L, commander of the elite unit.

Albums

•  1. Le requin qui mourut deux fois, 1969, Dargaud
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•  2. Commando Caïman, 1970, Dargaud
•  3. Les yeux sans visage, 1971, Dargaud
•  4. La cité pétrifiée, 1972, Dargaud
•  5. La nuit des chacals, 1973, Dargaud
•  6. Sarabande à Sacramento, 1974, Dargaud
•  7. Des caïmans dans la rizière, 1975, Dargaud
•  8. Orage aux Aléoutiennes, 1976, Dargaud
•  9. Quitte ou double pour Alak 6, 1977, Dargaud
• 10. Dossier Bruno Brazil, 1977, Dargaud
• 11. La fin...!??, 1995, Le Lombard
  Le Lombard
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Sources

• Bruno Brazil publications in Belgian Tintin and French Tintin BDoubliées
• Bruno Brazil albums Bedetheque

Footnotes