Before Blake & Mortimer - Volume 1 - The U Ray

Before Blake & Mortimer, Edgar P. Jacobs had created a first comic that has
now attained mythical status – The U Ray. Here it is now, finally translated
into English. The nation of Norlandia is in conflict with its powerful rival
Austradia. The eminent Professor Marduk is tasked by the High Council of
Norlandia with militarising a major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However,
doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power
the ray. And the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago.
An expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the Austradian
intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act …