Ric Hochet is a Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 series created by Tibet

Tibet (comics)

Tibet, the pseudonym of Gilbert Gascard , was a French comics artist and writer in the Franco-Belgian comics genre...

 (drawings) and André-Paul Duchâteau

André-Paul Duchâteau

André-Paul Duchâteau is a Belgian comics writer and mystery novelist. He worked with Tibet on Ric Hochet. He has also written under the pseudonym Michel Vasseur.-Awards:*1974: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière - French Prize...

 (scripts). It first appeared on March 3, 1955 in the comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics and magazines.In the early years of its history, magazines had a large place on the comics market and were often the only place where comics were published. Most of them were kids-targeted.In the 1970s,...

 Tintin

Tintin (magazine)

Le journal de Tintin or Kuifje , was a weekly Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century...

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Synopsis

The series features the adventures of Ric Hochet, a reporter for the newspaper La Rafale in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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Characters

• Ric Hochet
• Commissaire Bourdon
• Nadine
• Richard Hochet
• Inspector Ledru
• Bob Drumond
• Professor Hermelin
• "Le Bourreau"
• Lambert

Translations

The series' name deviated as translations were published across Europe, with the result that it is known as Rick Master in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Rik Ringers in The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 and Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

, Riku Oksa in Finland

Finland

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 and Alan Falk and Rick Hart in Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

. Ric Hochet's stories were also published in South India in Tamil Language by Prakash Publishers. Ric Hochet is known as "Reporter Johnny" in Tamil.

French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...	Finnish Finnish language Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...	Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...	Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...	Tamil
Ric Hochet	Ric Hochet	Rick Master	Ric Roland	Riku Oska	Rik Ringers	Allan Falk / Rick Hart	Reporter Johnny
Commissaire Bourdon		Kommissar Bourdon	Commissario Bourdon		Commissaris Baardemakers		Police Commissioner Boudon
Nadine		Nadine	Nadine		Nadine	Nadine	Nadine
Richard Hochet					Richard Ringers		Richard
Inspecteur Ledru		Inspektor Ledru			Kempers		Inspector Ledru
Bob Drumond					Bob Dalberg		Bob
Professeur Hermelin		Professor Hermelin			professor Hermelijn		Professor Hermelin

Albums

• 1 - Traquenard au Havre
• 2 - Mystère à Porquerolles
• 3 - Défi à Ric Hochet
• 4 - L'ombre de Caméléon
• 5 - Piège pour Ric Hochet
• 6 - Rapt sur le France
• 7 - Suspense à la télévision
• 8 - Face au serpent
• 9 - Alias Ric Hochet
• 10 - Les 5 revenants
• 11 - Cauchemar pour Ric Hochet
• 12 - Les spectres de la nuit
• 13 - Les compagnons du diable
• 14 - Ric Hochet contre le Bourreau
• 15 - Le monstre de Noireville
• 16 - Requiem pour une idole
• 17 - Épitaphe pour Ric Hochet
• 18 - Enquête dans le passé
• 19 - Les signes de la peur
• 20 - L'homme qui portait malheur
• 21 - Alerte! Extra - Terrestres
• 22 - Le trio maléfique
• 23 - La ligne de mort
• 24 - La piste rouge
• 25 - Coups de griffes chez Bouglione
• 26 - L'ennemi à travers les siècles
• 27 - L'épée sur la gorge
• 28 - Hallali pour Ric Hochet
• 29 - Opération 100 milliards
• 30 - Le fantôme de l'alchimiste
• 31 - K.O. en 9 rounds (short stories)
• 32 - Tribunal noir
• 33 - Le scandale Ric Hochet
• 34 - La nuit des vampires
• 35 - La mort noire
• 36 - La flèche de sang
• 37 - Le maléfice Vaudou
• 38 - Face au crime
• 39 - Le disparu de l'enfer
• 40 - Le double qui tue
• 41 - La maison de la vengeance
• 42 - La liste mortelle
• 43 - Les messagers du trépas
• 44 - Ric Hochet contre Sherlock
• 45 - Le triangle Attila
• 46 - Les témoins de Satan
• 47 - Les jumeaux diaboliques
• 48 - Le secret d'Agatha
• 49 - L'exécuteur des ténèbres
• 50 - Le crime de l'an 2000
• 51 - La bête de l'apocalypse
• 52 - Le maître de l'illusion
• 53 - Meurtre à l'Impro
• 54 - Le masque de la terreur
• 55 - Qui a peur d'Hitchcock
• 56 - Un million sans impôt
• 57 - L'heure du kidnapping
• 58 - Premières armes (Reprinted)
• 59 - La main de la mort
• 60 - Crime sur Internet
• 61 - Le jeu de la potence
• 62 - B.D. meurtres
• 63 - La sorcière mal aimée
• 64 - Le contrat du siècle
• 65 - Panique sur le Web
• 66 - Penthouse story
• 67 - Le nombre maudit
• 68 - Le collectionneur de crimes
• 69 - L'homme de glace
• 70 - Silence de mort
• 71 - La dernière impératrice
• 72 - Le trésor des Marolles
• 73 - On tue au théâtre ce soir
• 74 - Puzzle mortel
• 75 - Code pour l'au-delà
• 76 - Dernier duel
• 77 - Ici, 77
• 78 - A la poursuite du griffon d'or

Sources

• Ric Hochet publications in Belgian Tintin and French Tintin BDoubliées
• Ric Hochet albums Bedetheque

Footnotes

External links

• Ric Hochet on Lombard website
• L'Integrale Ric Hochet
• A wall painting in Brussels
• Tribute to Tibet