Secret History (2007) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Feb 2007 by Archaia Studios Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
by Pécau, Kordey, Beau, Manchu, & Vatine 'Genesis': In the dawn of prehistory, four immortal brothers and sisters were entrusted with ivory runes by a dying shaman, and told never to use the card together. Now these four immortals, four archons, leapfrog through time, consumed in an epic struggle to influence and shape the history of Western civilization: a secret occult history of the world in seven chapters, beginning with Moses' challenge to the Pharaoh amidst the sands of Egypt. Perfect bound. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #2
Published Apr 2007 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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by Jean-Pierre Pécau & Igor Kordey The Castle of the Djinns, 1176 AD. Two millennia have passed since the four Archons abandoned Egypt and each other and scattered into the world. But now events in the Holy Land draw them together once again. From Antioch to sacred Petra, a knight and a mysterious young woman joined by a writer named Chrétien de Troyes embark on a dangerous quest for the runestone used by Moses, and the origins of the Holy Grail. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #3
Published Sep 2007 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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by Pécau, Sudzuka, & Geto 'The Grail of Montségur': At the end of the 12th Century, the Archon Reka uses her influence over the Pope to extend her power over the whole of Christianity. She subverts the Holy Inquisition with a secret aim of seizing the Grail and using the lost runestone of Dyo to gain dominion over her brother. But Erlin and Aker join forces with the Holy Roman Empire of Frederic II, determined to counter her plans! Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #4
Published Oct 2007 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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by Pécau, Pilipovic, & Beau 'The Keys of Saint Peter.' 16th century Italy. The internecine struggle of the Archons has ended in the destruction of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Yesterday's alliances are no more, and each house pursues its own purposes. With the aid of Nostradamus, Aker investigates instances of phenomena that can be caused by nothing other than the use of runestones of power comparable to hers and her siblings' - icons of power, however, that none of them seem able to control. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #5
Published Jan 2008 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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by Jean-Pierre Pécau & Leo Pilipovic England, 1666. The embers of the Wars of Religion still smolder, but with Cromwell's reign of terror at an end, England breathes a little bit more freely. In London, a succession of strange crimes attracts Erlin's attention. What baleful creatures haunt the warrens of the capital? Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #6
Published Dec 2008 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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Written by Jean-Pierre Pecau. Art by Leo Pilipovic. The Eagle and the Sphinx. 1793, Toulon: Aker saves the life of a young Corsican artillery officer, and finds a man able to demolish the old tyrannies. Six years later, Napoleon leads the French army into Alexandria in Egypt. Lascari, an old knight of the order of Malta, is dispatched on an archeological expedition in search of a forgotten temple, but an ancient curse reappears from the desert. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #7
Published Nov 2009 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey Our Lady of the Shadows. 1914: Almost a century has passed since the death of Napoleon at St. Helena. Though believed defeated, the archon Dyo and the revenant William reappear in Sarajevo, guiding the hand of a terrorist who will plunge Europe into flames. What are the true aims of the red brethren and the Archon of the Chalice? Will World War I mean the end of the world or the birth of another? Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #8
Published Apr 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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Written by Jean-Pierre Pécau. Art by Igor Kordey. 1918: William of Lecce, the Fifth Archon, triggers the First World War, and so three of the four original houses - the Shield, the Lance, and the Sword - join forces. They succeed in holding disaster at bay, but for how long? A rumor spreads that in the sands of the Arabian Desert exists the mythical city of Kor, mother of all cities, said to house the powers of all runestones combined! Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #9
Published May 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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Written by Jean-Pierre Pécau. Art by Igor Kordey. The Thule Society, 1919. The ashes of the Great War still smolder across Europe. Civil war rages in the Ukraine, where Makhno's anarchists fight Reds and Whites alike, and despite himself, Itsak is swept into the hellish Russian revolution. In Munich, another revolution dies, and Baron von Sebottendorf and the black mages of the Thule Society use the occasion to set in action their diabolical plan. Once more, Europe's fate dims and darkens. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #10
Published Jun 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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Written by Jean-Pierre Pécau. Art by Igor Kordey. The Black Stone. 1926: Curtis and Lawrence try in vain to recover the black ivory, but the Road to Kor is closed to them thanks to Ibn Saud, the new master of Arabia. Meanwhile, in Soviet Ukraine, Itzhak fights alongside the partisan anarchists, and then flees to Siberia. He moves along the Tunguska River, on the same track followed seventeen years earlier by Rasputin, with Baron Sebottendorff on his trail. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #11
Published Jul 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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Written by Jean-Pierre Pécau. Art by Igor Kordey. Nadja. 1940: The Second World War is underway. While Curtis, in command of a squadron of Spitfires, is plunged in full into the Battle of Britain, the Archons attempt to combine forces to fight against the men of William of Lecce. But it seems the Fifth Archon is about to win the game and bring Europe under his yoke! Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #12
Published Nov 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey Lucky Point, 1942. After years of war, fate seems to finally turn in favor of the Allies. But William of Lecce has not said his last word. After defeating the archon Aker, William begins to work with the mysterious Nazi factory T4, whose raw materials seem to come directly from the concentration camps, while his agents seek some secret in Beirut. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Curtis joins the top secret 'Manhattan Project' at Los Alamos. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #13
Published Nov 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey Lucky Point, Götterdämmerung. 1943: SS officers in the service of William of Lecce try to recover the Ark of the Covenant. Despite the opposition of the Mafia, they manage the feat, but too late: Fate begins to play its final hand, and the war appears lost for the Axis Powers. In desperation, William plays his last card trying to derail the Normandy landings, and takes refuge in Japan. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #14
Published Feb 2010 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey The Watchers. 1945. The two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem to have put an end to the evil plots of William of Lecce. In liberated Paris, Daniel Rosenthal, a survivor of the death camps, learns how to live again. He owes his survival to a 'star,' a strange tarot card given to him by the surrealist poet Robert Desnos in the Terezín concentration camp, who also told him about the mysterious cabaret, L'Arcane 17. Daniel begins a descent into a world he did not know existed and into a story that the textbooks do not teach: the secret history. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #15
Published Jun 2011 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
(W) Jean-Pierre Pecau (A) Igor Kordey The Amber Room. 1946. The world is licking its wounds. At the border of the two Germanys, a group of Jewish partisans are trying to move to the West to reach the promised land, aided by Erlin's protégé, Curtis Hawk. In Princeton, a scientist opens a door to a parallel dimension. And in the ruins of Nuremburg, the Cold War begins, as the grand alliance between the Houses is shattered, and Erlin sides with the Allies, and Dyo with the Soviets. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #16
Published Jul 2011 by Archaia Studios Press.$3.20
(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey (C) Manchu, Olivier Vatine Zion. 1946. The Navarro woman Nimue gives birth to a baby girl she names Pandora. 1948. The United Nations votes to create the modern state of Israel, sowing the seeds of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Jordan, Curtis Hawk crashes his old Messerschmitt and runs across an odd group of confederates destined to seek the archaeological site of Qumran: Joachim, an Ashkenazi Jew; Moshe Dayan, in the service of the Zionist Haganah paramilitaries; and Reka, who reveals secrets of divided Jerusalem. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #17
Published Sep 2011 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey Operation Kadesh. 1956: In the Egyptian desert, Curtis settles accounts and conducts his personal crusade to avenge the death of this wife Nimue, the mother of Pandora, putting him on a collision course with General Nasser and the Condor as they try to retrieve the secrets buried in the Red Fort, where it all began. But the Archons do not control events they way they once did. Meanwhile, in Budapest, a new player arrives and changes the course of history. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #18
Published Jan 2012 by Archaia Studios Press.$2.50
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(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey The End of Camelot. California, 1960: The millionaire Howard Hughes convenes a meeting of the Cosa Nostra to offer them a contract on President John F. Kennedy. At the other end of the earth, Curtis is on the trail of John Philby, the murderer of his wife, hunting him in Saudi Arabia, intent on ending him once and for all... but the game changes constantly! Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #19
Published Apr 2012 by Archaia Studios Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
The Age of Aquarius: 1968. It's the end of illusions for the Archons as the world sinks into disenchantment. Dyo intervenes to suppress the Prague Spring, sending his best man, Kim Philby. Curtis sees his chance, and aims to finally wreak some vengeance. At the other end of the Earth, Erlin discovers in the ruins of a Mayan temple strange correspondence from his old friend, Nostradamus. What if the Archons had never really understood the meaning of their destiny? Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #20
Published May 2012 by Archaia Studios Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
(W) Jean-Pierre Pécau (A) Igor Kordey (CA) Philippe Manchu"" Bouchet, Olivier Vatine"" Since the dawn of time, Dyo, Reka, Aker, and Erlin, the four Archons who headed the Four Houses, have fought each other to control the fate of humankind. While Archons have risen and fallen, the world continues to change and time remains their constant antagonist. In the middle of the Vietnam War, the CIA decides to get rid of a strange smuggler, a German former legionnaire whose knowledge of the cards is worrisome. Meanwhile, Reka disappears. But who'd be crazy enough to kidnap an Archon? And to what end? Cover price $5.95.
