Blake and Mortimer/Trivia

• Author Existence Failure:
  • Averted, since the series continued after the original author's death.
  • There was an other aversions with the first part of The Curse of the Thirty Denarii, because of the death of the drawer. The drawings have been finished by his widow.
• Author Phobia: When author Edgar P. Jacobs was two or three years old he fell down a seven meters deep old well. It took half an hour before he was able to be brought back up. This lead to a lot of stories where Blake & Mortimer are lost inside underground locations.
• No Export for You: There were English translations of all published Jacobs stories, but nowadays they're quite expensive. Cinebook has put out a number of both Jacobs and post-Jacobs stories, although for some reason they've put the Jacobs stories out of order, and have yet to publish The Secret of The Swordfish, even though some stories reference it quite heavily. Then again, at three volumes, can you blame them?
• Saved From Development Hell: The second part of Professor Sató's Three Formulae has been published in 1990, the first was issued in 1977. It was even longer delayed because of Jacobs death (in 1987).