He also twice won the Indianapolis and the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times. He participated in several stock-car , F2 , F3 and GT races. He is also able to drive trucks and motorcycles , and practice football , gymnastics , tennis , judo and skiing very well. As a kind, serious, helpful, attentive, honest and generous man, Michel is very popular. She first appeared in , as a teenager. At that time, she was a journalist for a newspaper owned by her father Louis Latour, a good friend of Henri Vaillant. In , she appeared again, but as an older, attractive young woman.
From that time on, she appeared in every album of the series and saw Vaillant more and more, until his family urged him to marry her. They married in Jean-Pierre Vaillant is Michel's older brother by six years. Like Michel, he started as a driver for the Vaillante team. But rapidly, he became more and more interested in managing the family team and to elaborate strategies for Formula One racing. He soon became the leader of the Vaillante society, replacing his father.
Able to make difficult decisions, he also does not hesitate to launch ambitious projects. He has a son, Jean-Michel Vaillant, who is Michel's godson. Steve Warson is an American driver and Michel's best friend. He first appeared in the series in Steve has a different personality than Michel: Despite his several flaws, he is a good driver for the Vaillante team and a faithful team mate to Michel, even if his romantic adventures sometimes caused him to be Vaillante's occasional rival.
His numerous girlfriends have included Ruth and Julie Wood. As good driver as Michel, he outdoes him in most rallying and American races. The "Leader" is a mysterious character who is the worst enemy of Vaillante and owner of the Leader team. The Leader team uses modern and advanced technology to compete against the Vaillante team in motor races. The leader was brought up by Buddhist monks.
An ambitious and cruel man, he studied a form of Buddhism that gives him amazing powers, which he uses to try to dominate the motor industry. His first appearance was in the album "Mach 1 pour Steve Warson". Before knowing her real origin, Ruth was a kind girl and friendly towards the Vaillante team. She became cruel and mean, taking over as the new Leader at her father's death, and tried to avenge him by fighting against his enemies. Henri Vaillant is Michel and Jean-Pierre's father.
He began as a mechanic , then became a driver, created his own team and then became chairman of Vaillante. Rather authoritarian, he gave his two children a strict education. Later, he let his son Jean-Pierre take over as the leader and retired. His way of life remains modest, as chairman he went to work on a bicycle.
A respectable man, close to his employees , he is very appreciated by them. Elisabeth Vaillant is Henri Vaillant's wife. She married him when he was a simple mechanic, but does not know anything about cars, motor racing , or mechanics. Julie Wood is an American motorcycle driver and at one time Steve Warson's girlfriend. An orphan, she was brought up by her uncle Chris, in California , with her two brothers, Indy and Phil. She is at ease in any kind of motorcycle race. Before her appearance in the Michel Vaillant series in the album "Paris-Dakar" , she starred in her own series, Julie Wood , which ran for eight volumes, from to Yves Douleac is a driver for the Vaillante team.
He lost his father, a truck driver for Vaillante at Marseilles , at 7. He was brought up by his mother and he was very admirative of Michel Vaillant, getting to know him personally and being employed as a driver. Courageous and proud, he later fell in love with Gabriele Spangenberg, and succeeded in marrying her despite his modest origin. Her father, of noble heritage, first opposed such a union, due to Yves's poor origin, but later gave his permission, in the face of Gabriele's determination. Bob Cramer is an American driver, Vaillante's enemy and a driver for the Leader team along with his friend and partner Dan Hawkins.
A drunkard and a brawler, he is also aggressive in motor races where he caused a lot of crashes. Non-fictional characters As a driver evolving in the motor racing background, Michel Vaillant competes with many existing drivers, some of whom play an important part in the stories.
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Gilles Villeneuve and Jacky Ickx are portrayed as good friends of Michel's as is Didier Pironi , and are the most recurring drivers of the series. Didier Pironi played an important part in the album: Un pilote a disparu Non-fictional team managers and journalists also appear regularly, as do some statesmen and celebrities.
It ran for 13 episodes and featured stories written and filmed around a real-life world sportscar championship, documenting Henri Grandsire driving an Alpine A , interspersed with dramatic interludes acted by Grandsire himself. The series was also adapted into a Michel Vaillant animated series. It was released in the U.
Michel's name was anglicized to "Michael Valiant". It was broadcast again in France in and by France 2 , and sold in more than 30 countries. A Michel Vaillant film was made in , and the soundtrack to the movie composed by the band Archive was released at the same time. The series has been influential in the world of auto racing.
Some famous Formula One drivers have admitted that their passion for automobile racing originated from reading the Michel Vaillant comics series, [16] among them four- time Formula One champion Alain Prost. Many real cars were adapted from automobile designs from the series. Cars bearing the logo Vaillante ran in Le Mans in and A Courage in , while in , Vaillante cars have been designed to be used in the Luc Besson's movie.
The car has participated in real races, under the brand Vaillante. Many commercial products have been derived from the series, [27] among them figurines, collected by automobile fans as well as comics fans. The series is very popular among fans of automobiles, because it features real-life cars, including renowned and prestigious models. The series have fans throughout several countries, though it has not translated into other languages except for English, Dutch, German, Danish with Michel Vaillant renamed Mark Breton , Portuguese and Finnish.
It has above all fans in France and Belgium, including Dutch-speaking Belgium, given that Michel Vaillant albums have been translated into Dutch. A stamp representing Michel Vaillant was published in Belgium, [33] a rare privilege granted only to the greatest comics series'. It was made available from January 1, with a face value of 0. The series also ranks high on the collector's market, with original editions ranking among the most valuable.
Graton's original art pages have fetched high prices at auctions. On April , in Paris again, an original page from "L'Honneur du Samourai" was auctionned for 12, euros whereas its original value was 3, euros , breaking the record of the time. Michel Vaillant This article is about the comics series.
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Alain Menu 's Vaillant color Chevrolet Cruze 1. Le Pilote sans visage Volume 3: Le Circuit de la peur Volume 4: Route de nuit Volume 5: La Trahison de Steve Warson Volume 7: Les Casse-cou Volume 8: Le 8e pilote Volume 9: Le Retour de Steve Warson Volume Concerto pour pilotes Volume Mach 1 pour Steve Warson Volume Le Cique infernal Volume De l'huile sur la piste! Massacre pour un moteur! He is also able to drive trucks and motorcycles , and practice football , gymnastics , tennis , judo and skiing very well.
As a kind, serious, helpful, attentive, honest and generous man, Michel is very popular. She first appeared in , as a teenager. At that time, she was a journalist for a newspaper owned by her father Louis Latour, a good friend of Henri Vaillant. In , she appeared again, but as an older, attractive young woman. From that time on, she appeared in every album of the series and saw Vaillant more and more, until his family urged him to marry her. They married in Jean-Pierre Vaillant is Michel's older brother by six years. Like Michel, he started as a driver for the Vaillante team.
But rapidly, he became more and more interested in managing the family team and to elaborate strategies for Formula One racing. He soon became the leader of the Vaillante society, replacing his father. Able to make difficult decisions, he also does not hesitate to launch ambitious projects. He has a son, Jean-Michel Vaillant, who is Michel's godson. Steve Warson is an American driver and Michel's best friend. He first appeared in the series in Steve has a different personality than Michel: Despite his several flaws, he is a good driver for the Vaillante team and a faithful team mate to Michel, even if his romantic adventures sometimes caused him to be Vaillante's occasional rival.
His numerous girlfriends have included Ruth and Julie Wood. As good driver as Michel, he outdoes him in most rallying and American races. The "Leader" is a mysterious character who is the worst enemy of Vaillante and owner of the Leader team. The Leader team uses modern and advanced technology to compete against the Vaillante team in motor races.
The leader was brought up by Buddhist monks. An ambitious and cruel man, he studied a form of Buddhism that gives him amazing powers, which he uses to try to dominate the motor industry. His first appearance was in the album "Mach 1 pour Steve Warson". Before knowing her real origin, Ruth was a kind girl and friendly towards the Vaillante team. She became cruel and mean, taking over as the new Leader at her father's death, and tried to avenge him by fighting against his enemies. Henri Vaillant is Michel and Jean-Pierre's father.
He began as a mechanic , then became a driver, created his own team and then became chairman of Vaillante. Rather authoritarian, he gave his two children a strict education. Later, he let his son Jean-Pierre take over as the leader and retired. His way of life remains modest, as chairman he went to work on a bicycle. A respectable man, close to his employees , he is very appreciated by them. Elisabeth Vaillant is Henri Vaillant's wife.
She married him when he was a simple mechanic, but does not know anything about cars, motor racing , or mechanics. Julie Wood is an American motorcycle racer and at one time Steve Warson's girlfriend. An orphan, she was brought up by her uncle Chris, in California , with her two brothers, Indy and Phil. She is at ease in any kind of motorcycle race. Before her appearance in the Michel Vaillant series in the album "Paris-Dakar" , she starred in her own series, Julie Wood , which ran for eight volumes, from to Yves Douleac is a driver for the Vaillante team.
He lost his father, a truck driver for Vaillante at Marseilles , at 7. He was brought up by his mother and he was very admirative of Michel Vaillant, getting to know him personally and being employed as a driver. Courageous and proud, he later fell in love with Gabriele Spangenberg, and succeeded in marrying her despite his modest origin. Her father, of noble heritage, first opposed such a union, due to Yves's poor origin, but later gave his permission, in the face of Gabriele's determination.
Bob Cramer is an American driver, Vaillante's enemy and a driver for the Leader team along with his friend and partner Dan Hawkins. A drunkard and a brawler, he is also aggressive in motor races where he caused a lot of crashes. Non-fictional characters As a driver evolving in the motor racing background, Michel Vaillant competes with many existing drivers, some of whom play an important part in the stories.
Gilles Villeneuve and Jacky Ickx are portrayed as good friends of Michel's as is Didier Pironi , and are the most recurring drivers of the series. Didier Pironi played an important part in the album: Un pilote a disparu Non-fictional team managers and journalists also appear regularly, as do some statesmen and celebrities. It ran for 13 episodes and featured stories written and filmed around a real-life world sportscar championship, documenting Henri Grandsire driving an Alpine A , interspersed with dramatic interludes acted by Grandsire himself.
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The series was also adapted into a Michel Vaillant animated series. It was released in the U. Michel's name was anglicized to "Michael Valiant". It was broadcast again in France in and by France 2 , and sold in more than 30 countries. A Michel Vaillant film was made in , and the soundtrack to the movie composed by the band Archive was released at the same time. The series has been influential in the world of auto racing.
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Some famous Formula One drivers have admitted that their passion for automobile racing originated from reading the Michel Vaillant comics series, [15] among them four- time Formula One champion Alain Prost. Many real cars were adapted from automobile designs from the series.
Cars bearing the logo Vaillante ran in Le Mans in and A Courage in , while in , Vaillante cars have been designed to be used in the Luc Besson's movie. The car has participated in real races, under the brand Vaillante. Many commercial products have been derived from the series, [26] among them figurines, collected by automobile fans as well as comics fans. Vaillant, even dying his hair and shaving his beard to resemble the look of the character.
The series is very popular among fans of automobiles, because it features real-life cars, including renowned and prestigious models. The series have fans throughout several countries, though it has not translated into other languages except for English, Dutch, German, Danish with Michel Vaillant renamed Mark Breton , Portuguese and Finnish. It has above all fans in France and Belgium, including Dutch-speaking Belgium, given that Michel Vaillant albums have been translated into Dutch.
A stamp representing Michel Vaillant was published in Belgium, [33] a rare privilege granted only to the greatest comics series'. It was made available from January 1, with a face value of 0. The series also ranks high on the collector's market, with original editions ranking among the most valuable. Graton's original art pages have fetched high prices at auctions. On April , in Paris again, an original page from "L'Honneur du Samourai" was auctionned for 12, euros whereas its original value was 3, euros , breaking the record of the time.
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Le Pilote sans visage Volume 3: Le Circuit de la peur Volume 4: Route de nuit Volume 5: La Trahison de Steve Warson Volume 7: Les Casse-cou Volume 8: Le 8e pilote Volume 9: Le Retour de Steve Warson Volume Concerto pour pilotes Volume Mach 1 pour Steve Warson Volume Le Cirque infernal Volume De l'huile sur la piste! Massacre pour un moteur!
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