Books like The Yellow "M": The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer Volume 1

The Yellow “M” is the sixth book in Blake and Mortimer series from Edgar P. Jacobs and is a classic mystery-adventure and action graphic novel with ‘Captain Francis Blake’, the dashing head of MI5 and his friend ‘Professor Philip Mortimer’, a nuclear physicist as the lead protagonists.Jacobs drawings are clean and stylish and the cartoon panels have a strong visual resemblance to ‘Tintin’. This is easily explained by the fact that Jacobs has collaborated with the master Hergé himself, in the recasting of some of the Tintin titles like ‘Tintin in the Congo’, ‘Tintin in America’ and ‘The Blue Lotus’ and has contributed directly both with the sketches and storyline for two Tintin double-albums. The first book in the Blake and Mortimer series ‘The secret of the Swordfish’ was published in the launch issue of the Tintin magazine. Unlike the Tintin books the Blake & Mortimer series don’t depend on humor to connect with the reader instead it uses action packed storytelling drenched in good amounts of mystery and adventure. The mood is more serious and has a touch of danger lingering in the atmosphere.When the city of London is terrorized by a mysterious super villain - who perplexes even the very best of Scotland Yard - it is up to Blake and Mortimer to stands against the threat and diffuse the mystery. The Yellow “M” has a strong storyline with enough plot twists, strong characters and a good dose of edge-of-the-seats moments to make it a fast read.As a pure adventure and action story these titles from Jacobs are fun to read. Nice action along with masterly crafted cartoon panels makes this a good series to pursue for anyone interested in adventure graphic novels.