Captain W.E. Johns - Belgium
In Belgium 9 Biggles books
were published in
Dutch by "De Ster", Antwerpen in the fifties. This company
also published 4 Gimlet and 5 Steeley books.
In the sixties and finally in 1998 "Studio Vandersteen", Antwerpen published
21 Dutch comic Biggles albums.
In 1995 the first Archief Biggles album with a set of two comics appeared, which was meant
to become a series.
Lefrancq, Brussels, published 4 Biggles books, three omnibuses
and the French edition of "Archief Biggles" called "Archives Biggles".
Since 1990 "Miklo SA", Brussels published
17 comic Biggles albums in Dutch and French
and some in German, English and Czech. In 2003 these series were taken over by Le Lombard, Brussels.
Nowadays MIKLO publishes the series
Biggles Héritage, Biggles présente... (aviation art) and Biggles L'intégrale (omnibuses).
Beside this MIKLO publishes a new series of Dutch books which never were translated into Dutch previously.
The titles are "Biggles en zijn basis" (2001), "Biggles en de pechvogel" (2002) and "Biggles Vlieger-rechercheur" (2003). There are more to come.
Detailed information about these publishing companies and their editions
can be found in the
Captain W.E. Johns Catalogus.
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