Jean-Marc Lofficier

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    87 Books (1 Series)
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    June 1991
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Tales of the Shadowmen

1 - The Modern Babylon (Mar-2005)
2 - Gentlemen of the Night (Dec-2005)
3 - Danse Macabre (Nov-2006)
4 - Lords of Terror (Jan-2007)
5 - The Vampires of Paris (Jan-2009)
6 - Grand Guignol (Dec-2009)
7 - Femmes Fatales (Dec-2010)
8 - Agents Provocateurs (Dec-2011)
10 - Esprit de Corps (Dec-2013)
11 - Force Majeure (Dec-2014)
12 - Carte Blanche (Dec-2015)
13 - Sang Froid (Dec-2016)
14 - Coup de Grace (Dec-2017)

Book List in Order: 87 titles

  • Terrestrial Index

  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Summer Special

  • Universal Databank

  • Doctor Who: The Nth Doctor

    Over the last three decades, several film production companies have held the rights to make a Doctor Who movie. To this day, intense speculation surrounds the details of these unmade productions. Here, for the first time, is an in-depth exploration o...

  • Moebius Arzach

  • Shadowmen 2: Heroes and Villains of French Comics

    Discover classic characters of French comics, from 1925's Zig & Puce, which influenced Tintin, to sexy Barbarella, Jodelle, Felina and Arabelle, the Last Mermaid, the Frankenstein Monster and the fearsome Wampus, Zembla and Durga Rani, King and Queen...

  • Despair

    In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. A man survives a car crash only to find himself trapped in a private clinic a...

  • Royal Flush: The Screenplay

    A comic-book fan finds a financial windfall, which in turn leads him to assume the role of a pseudo-billionaire. But his new lifestyle, and more importantly, his friends, are threatened by a ruthless conglomerate, forcing him to choose between loyalt...

  • The Modern Babylon

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 1

    In the Paris sewers, Judex and a young Maigret battle the Frankenstein Monster. Meanwhile in Tibet, Alexander Whateley's plans to bring about the return of Yog-Sothoth are thwarted by the combined efforts of JimGrim and Robur the Conqueror. C. August...



  • Gentlemen of the Night

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 2

    On the rooftops of the Louvre, Fantômas duels with Zenith the Albino... Meanwhile, in Surrey, the Sâr Dubnotal and Harry Dickson team up to destroy the Werewolf of Rutherford Grange... Arsène Lupin joins forces with Kogoro Akechi to thwart the Vam...

  • Danse Macabre

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 3

    Fantômas is dead, long live Fantômas! Doctor Omega and Captain Kronos challenge the might of the Vampire City! The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants! King Kong falls in love for the first time! Hercule Poirot stalks a Murderer from ...

  • Lords of Terror

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 4

    Join us again for this fourth volume and meet the most villainous cast to ever grace the pages of popular literature, spreading evil from the foggy underworld of London to the seedy taverns of Mars, and from the flowery banks of the Seine to New York...

  • Pocket Essential Tintin

    The silhouette of Tintin -- a young man wearing golf trousers, running with a white fox terrier by his side -- is easily one of the most recognizable visual icons of the modern world. In fact Tintin is nine years older ...

  • Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: The Further Adventures of Gullivar Jones

    A legendary warrior from Mars' ancient past. A struggling young writer from 1827 Baltimore. Soon, cosmic events put in motion by the Enchanter Montressor and his ward Ligeia cause the two to meet. Gullivar Jones and Egar Allan Poe must then learn to ...

  • The Katrina Protocol

    August 2005. As Hurricane Katrina is preparing to strike New Orleans, Hugo Van Helsing, the modern-day descendent of that notorious family, has come to the Big Easy to investigate the mysterious death of his uncle. From the French Quarter to St. Loui...

  • The Vampires of Paris

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 5

    Once upon a time, the world was but a stage for the exploits of the Shadowmen... The Vampires haunted the rooftops of Paris... Count Zaroff hunted the Serpent Men in the streets of New York... The Queen of Atlantis killed to save her mythical Kingdom...

  • Grand Guignol

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 6

    This sixth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy. Tremble as you face the terror of Fantômas, the villainy of Madame Atomos, the sorcery of Leonox, the unspeakable King in Yellow and the insanity of...

  • Pacifica

    The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside... The Justice League... The Prisoner... The Shadowmen... Madame Atomos... The Red Death... From long-lost Hype...

  • Femmes Fatales

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 7

    This seventh volume of the only international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world's most fantastic heroes from popular literature spotlights the females of the species: beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, enticing... all gathered here fo...



  • Tintin

    An updated edition just in time for Steven Spielberg's animated film The Adventures of Tintin, premiering December 23, 2011, produced by Peter Jackson and starring Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, and Jamie Bell as Tintin




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  • Agents Provocateurs

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 8

    The international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world's most fantastic heroes and villains returns in this eighth installment. This time, the stories focus on those who provoke or entice evil... Agents Provocateurs who thrive in the shado...

  • City

    U.S.A., 2090. Most of Florida, Louisiana and parts of Texas are under water. The second secession has caused the break-up of the United States. The cities are crumbling, social order has collapsed, nature is reclaiming her own and humans are devolvin...

  • The Shadow of Judex

    JUDEX! He whose name means "Judge"! Created in 1917 by writer Arthur Bernède and filmmaker Louis Feuillade, Judex is the first of the dark knights, predating both The Shadow and Batman. To avenge the death of his father, young Jacques de Trémeuse h...

  • Esprit de Corps

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 10

    In this very special tenth anniversary issue of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, we find a pantheon of contributors from Australia, Canada, England, France and the United St...

  • Strangers in a Strange Land

    Homicron, a NASA physicist whose body is inhabited by an alken intelligence, Starlock, the fugitive servant of awesome cosmic entities, Jaydee, a teenage alien metamorph abandoned on Earth, Jaleb, the telepathic agent of the Galactic Federation and F...

  • Force Majeure

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 11

    Force Majeure! Two words which convey the notion of catastrophe, a sense of urgency, earth-shaking events when only the greatest of champions can successfully face off with the most cataclysmic of threats! Here is Gilgamesh, the Lord of Bronze, chall...

  • Strangers 0: Omens & Origins

    Was the Bronze Gladiator deliberately drawn to Earth to fight Wampus? How did Tanka come to inherit the powers of an Invariant? What are the origins of the mysterious Futura? What terrible danger did Frank Universal and Sally Swift face in the Necrom...

  • Harry Dickson vs The Spider

    When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, threatening the good and the helpless, Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the Darkness from whence they came. Ha...

  • The Vampire Almanac

    This dual nature of the vampire, stretching between love and death, creates a moral ambiguity which is omnipresent in its literary treatment, incorporating and contrasting seduction and horror, heroism and villainy. It only reflects the nature of lif...



  • Carte Blanche

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 12

    Carte Blanche! The complete freedom to act without restrictions! When heroes let their passions or thirst for justice go unchecked, and villains go wild, spreading chaos and destruction! Doctor Ardan meet the People of the Pole! Doctor Omega teams up...

  • Sar Dubnotal and The Astral Trail

    From the sun-bleached streets of Tunis to the bottom of the seas, from the sordid back alleys of Paris to the blood-drenched trenches of the Somme, Sâr Dubnotal, the Great Psychagogue, his disciple Rudolph, his medium Gianetti Annunciata, and his tr...

  • The French Fantasy Treasury (Volume 3)

    The French Fantasy Treasury serves as an introduction to French fantasy, which has a long and noble history, quite distinct from its British and American counterparts. Its three volumes chronicle the history of the genre, from its origins through ...

  • Sang Froid

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 13

    Sang Froid, i.e. Cold Blood! The ability to stay calm in difficult or even dangerous situations... as exhibited by French sleuth Joseph Rouletabille aboard the transiberian "Horror Express"... Or martial arts master Caine and Jed Puma confronted b...

  • The Time Brigade: The Grail Wars

    Upon returning from a mission in time, the TIME BRIGADE is captured by the Fairy Queen VIVIEN and find themselves prisoners on an Earth where Camelot never fell and continued to exist. They learn that Vivien seized the Holy Grail, and its mysteri...

  • Tiger and The Eye

    The saga of Tiger & The Eye takes place on an Alternate Earth dominated by Mesoamerican cultures, one on which the Indo-European civilizations never rose to prominence, leaving room for the Mesoamerican cultures to thrive and grow, and create te...

  • Coup de Grace

    Tales of the Shadowmen - 14

    Coup de grâce â€" the ultimate blow, the final strike in the merciless battle that pits good vs evil, heroes vs villains! But does it signal the triumph of order or the victory of chaos?  In this fourteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, th...

  • Trompe l'Oeil

    Trompe l'Oeil! To cheat the eye! To concoct the perfect illusion! To deceive, lie and dissemble! What better way to encapsulate the myriad of tricks employed the villains to gain the upper hand on the heroes? But do the latter always fall victim ...

  • Strangers 2: Of Blood and Fire

    HOMICRON is a NASA scientist whose body is inhabited by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK is the former servant of supremely powerful cosmic entities who has managed to escape from his Martian prison and is hiding on Earth. FUTURA is ...

  • Galaor: The Isle of Doom

    Galaor de Montbars, Musketeer of French King Louis XIII, is forced to flee France because of the schemes of the sinister Cardinal de Richelieu. Later, he is transported far, far into the past to Mû, the legendary fifth planet, the destruction of ...



  • The Lunatic Legion

    Meet the oddest superheroes ever â€" Baron Sarcasm, a Scrooge-like, wealthy, cantankerous elderly man living in a castle somewhere in the French countryside; his niece, the pretty, spunky Mademoiselle Mademoiselle, also a brilliant inventor, her s...

  • Dick Demon: Vanishing Point

    The TWILIGHT PEOPLE, hidden for centuries, are awakening, thirsty for their ancient rituals of blood, reaady to strike in the City of Angels in this new millennium... But then comes the one able to fight the forces of darkness... Returning to Los...

  • Strangers 3: Of Gods and Men

    HOMICRON is a NASA scientist whose body is inhabited by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK is the former servant of supremely powerful cosmic entities who has managed to escape from his Martian prison and is hiding on Earth. FUTURA is...

  • Kidz: Origins

    When a trio of powerful super-villains brings the U.S. to its knees, incapacitating all adult heroes, the only hope left are... THE KIDZ! Brought together by the eccentric scientist ARCHIE BOLT, a new team assembles, composed of IVAN WOLONSKY, te...

  • Dragut // Scarlet Lips

    In the year of our Lord 1542, Captain Dragut returns from a perilous mission to the Sargasso Sea, when his ship is attacked by the bloodthirsty privateer known as Captain Hook. Taken prisoner to the island of the Croatoan, a tribe of shapeshifti...

  • Guardian of the Republic/Dragut/Scarlet Lips/Time Brigade

    Who is the mysterious enitity who has transported the indomitable GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC to Mexico in the 16th century? And for what obscure reasons?

    The course of history is being threatened by the invasion of the powerful Baal-Sagur, a....

  • Voir Dire

    Voir Dire! Verum Dicere... To speak the truth... Now referring to the cunning probing to which jurors and experts are subject during a trial in order to force them to disclose any bias or explain their background -- here, illustrated by fifteen st...

  • The Dark Hive

    The Hexagon Group was born either in 2002, when they made their first retroactive appearance in Strangers #1, or in the 1960s, depending upon how one looks at it. Like The Justice Society of America and The Avengers, the group gathered together a...

  • Mutations

    Anthology featuring characters from the Hexagon Comics Universe, selected and introduced by Romain d'Huissier & Jean-Marc Lofficier. Stories by Cédric Burgaud, Nelly Chadour, Fabien Clavel, Tepthida Hay, Julien Heylbroeck, Romain d'Huissier, Jea...

  • Hexagon vs. Heptagon

    The Hexagon Group was born either in 2002, when they made their first retroactive appearance in Strangers #1, or in the 1960s, depending upon how one looks at it. Like The Justice Society of America and The Avengers, the group gathered together a ...



  • The Frontiersmen/Codename Glory

    The Frontiersmen: In the 1860s, the U.S./Mexico border is the theater of strange phenomena, the appearances of monstrous creatures and supernatural threats. To fight them, Stormshadow, the powerful shaman of the Twilight People, gathers around him...

  • Morgane

    Young Morgane Gorlyer works for a prestigious French fashion magazine, but she is also the descendant of the original, much maligned, Morgan Le Fey, an enchantress who was King Arthur's sister and heir to the secrets of Vivien, the Lady of the Lak...

  • Gun Gallon

    Gun Gallon was created in 1968 by the legendary Italian artist Lina Buffolente. It was one of Editions Lug’s longest-running series, lasting until 1983. In the early 2000s Gun Gallon returned as part of the Hexagon group of heroes and, since th...

  • Strangers 4: The Coming of Starcyb

    HOMICRON is a NASA scientist whose body is inhabited by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARCYB is a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. FUTURA is a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension. JALEB is the secretive agent...

  • Guardian of the Republic // Phenix // Super-Patriots

    While on vacation in Australia, the GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC sees a flying saucer invade a secret Australian army base. With the providential help of two stalwarts heroines, the American PHENIX and the Australian SOUTHERN CROSS, he rushes to the resc...

  • The Enchanters

    Enter the ENCHANTERS, composed of SIBILLA, heir of Cagliostro, the powerful Lakota shaman OZARK, KEL and THE METAL MAN, from the distant world of New Camelot, created by the Goddesses of Love and Hate... The latter, the evil ARUNA, once banished from...

  • Strangers 5: The Kingdom of Shivar

    DICK DEMON is a descendant of Gal, the first Lord of theTwilight People, fugitives from another universe... STORMSHADOW is the powerful shaman of the Twilight People... STARCYB is a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities and ancien...

  • The Partisans 2

    1942. North Africa. Under the direction of Erwin Rommel, the Nazis prepare to seize the mysterious city of Heliopolis, once the home of the mythical Egyptian gods and the depository of all their secrets. This will insure Germany’s victory and h...

  • NOBLESSE OBLIGE

    Noblesse Oblige! Privilege entails responsibility, and requires a person who holds an elevated status fulfills certain responsibilities -- an attitude illustrated here by fourteen stories in which some of the bravest heroes of popular fiction display...

  • Kabur // Zembla

    Across the gulf of time, the dreaded Demon Queen Mauve has pitted Kabur, exiled Prince of Thule, against Zembla, the Lord of Lions. Torn from their native worlds, the two heroes become the pawns in an inter-dimensional game of carnage and conquest......

  • Starlock // Homicron

    When STARLOCK was still a cosmic Guardian working for the Towers, he once had to fight the invincible SCILIX and his demonic hordes from Cepheus. However, he did not meet that challenge alone. He was assisted by the ORIGINAL HOMICRON from Planet Alph...

  • Guardian of the Republic/Doctor Omega

    Berlin, April 1945... Amidst the ashes of the Nazi defeat, a quartet of mad scientists decides to continue the experiment of the Third Reich by creating a futuristic version of Nazi Germany, which they christen-Metropolis!The Guardian of the Republic...

  • Strangers 6: Against the Overbrain

    JAYDEE, a teenage, alien metamorph, abandoned on Earth as a baby, who may well be the deadliest killing machine in the known universe...FUTURA, a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension with strange abilities...XANI-RHU, former agent of a Galactic...

  • Guardian of the Republic / Zembla / Morgane / Ozark

    After the mighty shaman Ozark triumphed over the evil wizard Maleficus, the seven powerful mystic gems known as the Fingers of Shivar were scattered through time and space. But the witch Alecto plots to reunite them in order to take revenge on Morgan...

  • Phenix // Sibilla

    Chicago's super heroine, the fearless leather clad, bike-riding Phenix, and the mysterious Italian enchantress Sibilla, once fought together alongside Top Cow's Witchblade against the infamous mass murderer, Gilles de Rais in Blood Oath (2003). But t...

  • Starpuck

    Meet Starpuck, the courageous canine member of the Galactic Guardians of the Towers, the same cosmic corps to which belong Starlock and Starcyb of Strangers fame.Learn of the secret origins of this dogged defender when he was only Inspector Pucktoon ...

  • Tales of the Hexagonverse (comics)

    Hexagon Comics isn't merely Wampus, Zembla, Phenix, and the Strangers. For well over sixty years, they published a number of anthology comics in the tradition of DC's Mystery in Space, Strange Adventures, etc., with colorful titles such as Yuma, Neva...

  • Eminences Grises

    Eminences Grises! The secret and powerful decision-makers who operate behind the scenesm are featured here in seventeen stories in which some of the strangest and most mysterious heroes and villains of popular fiction spin their deadly webs of intrig...

  • Strangers 7: The Return of Homicron

    THE SEA KING, a young naval officer who gained the power to breathe underwater thanks to his uncle's experiments...MARINO and EGA, two kidz from the alien sunken city of Kosmos with their own strange aquatic powers...MISS METEOR, a scientist who trav...

  • French Tales of Alien Encounters

    The theme of alien encounters runs throughout the history of the French roman scientifique-a genre that some might call proto-sf-from the 18th century to today.We have gathered in this thematic collection nine remarkable short stories by Charles Cros...

  • Kabur #3: Zothaqa

    One hundred million years before our time was the continent of Hyperborea. There thrived the rebellious young prince of Ultima Thulé and his companion, the beautiful ex-slave girl Lagrid.After defeating an evil doppelganger, Kabur must now retur...

  • Captain Ukraine Lives Again!

    This special issue introduces a character who is both new and yet has been part of the Hexagon Universe since 1963: Captain Ukraine! Nadiya Karine, the modern-day version of this hero, introduced alongside the French Guardian of the Republic in h...

  • French Tales of Cataclysms

    The term cataclysm is defined as a large-scale, violent event in the natural world, or a sudden and equally violent political or social upheaval. Such concepts run throughout the history of the French roman scientifique-a genre that some might call p...

  • GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC // COUNT SAINT-GERMAIN // JOHN MIST

    December 1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is about to be crowned Emperor of France by the Pope at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. But the diabolical sorcerer Maleficus plans to assassinate him and take his place... Against this sinister plan stand the Marquis...

  • Strangers 8: The Invasion of Atlantis

    In search of HOMICRON, RITA TOWER, JOANNI BOURASK and the ZORR-KO travel to Tibet where the mysterious COUNT SAINT-GERMAIN enlists their help to protect the hidden city of the Mohenjo Dar. Its sole defender is the formidable KIT KAPPA, but without th...

  • Kabur 4: Return to Thule

    One hundred million years before the world we know, the continent of Hyperborea existed. Kabur, the rebellious young prince of Ultima Thulé and his companion, the beautiful ex-slave girl Lagrid, thrived there. After defeating an evil doppelgange...

  • Wampus #3: The End Times

    Wampus was the herald of a second generation of comic heroes and magazines launched by Editions Lug in 1969, which eventually led to Jaleb, Homicron, the Time Brigade, Kabur, Jeff Sullivan and many more.Wampus is a shape-shifting monster sent to Eart...

  • Strangers 9: The Fall of Atlantis

    Will the Towers prove true to their word and release Starlock? Will Homicron return in time to help her fellow Strangers? Will Atlantis fall as it was preordained? All our heroes are on stopping the evil Twilight Lord Kruge from using the all-powerfu...

  • Demi-Monde

    Demi-Monde... A group of people on the fringes of respectable society, considered to be of doubtful social standing and morality... Among these are Harry Dickson, the so-called American Sherlock Holmes, gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, spymaster Ri...

  • Kabur: The Red Star

    Over a hundred million years ago...KABUR of Thule has reigned over the kingdoms of Hyperborea for decades... Then, like all must do, he died; however, his name became legend...Several centuries later, Earth was conquered by the monstrous HEMOCRATS, t...

  • Guardian of the Republic Special Underground Issue

    GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC / LUNATIC LEGION in THE COFFEE MAKER THAT TERRORIZES FRANCE! (Story: J..-M. Lofficer; Art: Jim Dandy)The new MOOKS GANG poses a terrifying threat to the French Republic. Only the LUNATIC LEGION is capable of stopping ...

  • Strangers 10: Enter Mr. 17

    HOMICRON, a NASA scientist whose body is possessed by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK, a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. FUTURA, a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension. JAYDEE, a teenage, alien metamorp...

  • Kabur 5: Arianrod

    As this season of Kabur opens, the beautiful Lagrid is kidnapped by monstrous beasts sent by Selinor Psah, the Sorcerer-Sultan of the far-off city of Arkhanal, located at the other end of the Earth, on the southern tip of the Gondaxan continent.Kabur...

  • French Tales of Mad Scientists 1

    The mad scientist is a stereotypical, archetypal scientist who is often a cliché or commonplace in popular fiction. He can be absent-minded and harmless, or wicked and dangerous. French science fiction, in particular, features a remarkable numbe...

  • Kabur 6: The Fires of Foralume

    The SAGA OF KABUR continues!After defeating the evil Ghool, Kabur and Arianrod suddenly find themselves pitted against the diabolical schemes of the witch SHANGA KHOUR and the mysterious TIME RIDER. To defeat them, Kabur will have to overcome the let...

  • Fin de Siecle

    stories by Jason Scott Aiken, Tim Newton Anderson, Jean-Michel Archaimbault, Matthew Baugh, Atom Mudman Bezecny, Thom Brannan, Nathan Cabaniss, Bill Cunningham, Matthew Dennion, Paul Di Filippo, Brian Gallagher, John Gallagher, Martin Gately, Lex Gil...

  • Strangers 11: Finally... Zembla!

    HOMICRON, a NASA scientist whose body is possessed by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK, a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. FUTURA, a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension. JAYDEE, a teenage, alien metamorp...

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Jean-Marc Lofficier has published 87 books.

Jean-Marc Lofficier does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Strangers 11: Finally... Zembla!, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Terrestrial Index, was published in June 1991.

Yes. Jean-Marc Lofficier has 1 series.
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