Books by Jean-Marc Lofficier

ROBONOCCHIO is the classic Collodi tale recast in modern terms: a robot boy, built for an amusement park owned by the evil conglomerate AMALGAMATED BEHEMOTH, is brought to life by a whimsical blue alien. He and his designer must escape from the villains' evil clutches.J.-M. & Randy Lofficier are the award-winning writers of numerous comic books including Superman and Doctor Strange. They co-authored the children's novelization of The Great Mouse Detective and penned episodes of Duck Tales and Real Ghostbusters. Stephan Martiniere is the award-winning director of the Madeline animated series and the artist behind the Where's Waldo strip.Babel Library books feature the same text at the same place in two lan-guages on facing pages. The reader can read the lan-guage he is trying to learn, but when he loses his place, he can look to the exact same spot on the opposite page written in his native tongue. Without resorting to a dictionary, the needed word or phrase is there and he can speedily move on. It's simple, it's efficient, it's entertaining.

A comic-book fan finds a financial windfall, which in turn leads him to assume the role of a pseudo-billionaire. But his new lifestyle, and more importantly, his friends, are threatened by a ruthless conglomerate, forcing him to choose between loyalty and financial security. ROYAL FLUSH is a story about ordinary people who prove themselves under extraordinary circumstances. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier have co-authored five screenplays, a number of animation teleplays, including Duck Tales and The Real Ghostbusters, a dozen books and numerous comic books and translations. Randy is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West and Mystery Writers of America. Foreword by Will Eisner (The Spirit).

In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. A man survives a car crash only to find himself trapped in a private clinic at the mercy of its lunatic owner, the terrifying DOCTOR DESPAIR. The Doctor seeks to use him as a pawn in a monstrous scheme of revenge against the wife who once betrayed him. The hero struggles to save her but in Dr. Despair's asylum, no one is ever sure of what is a lie and what is the awful truth.Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier have co-authored five screenplays, a number of animation teleplays, including Duck Tales and The Real Ghostbusters, a dozen books and numerous comic books and translations. Randy is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West and Mystery Writers of America. Despair is an adaptation of a classic horror novel by renowned French author Marc Agapit (1897-1985).

Discover classic characters of French comics, from 1925's Zig & Puce, which influenced Tintin, to sexy Barbarella, Jodelle, Felina and Arabelle, the Last Mermaid, the Frankenstein Monster and the fearsome Wampus, Zembla and Durga Rani, King and Queen of the Jungle, superheroes Fantax, Fulguros, Mikros, Photonik, Satanax and Salvator, the starships Space Girl and Hope, which boldly went where no Frenchman had gone before, swordsmen Thorkael, Kabur of Ultima Thule and Prince Kaza of Mars, fearless Tom X and Jacques Flash, cult favorites such as Druillet's Lone Sloane and Pichard's Submerman, and even a French-produced Super Boy!Shadowmen 2 is an indispensable companion to Shadowmen, and of special interest to science fiction, pulp literature, and comic book fans. The book includes bibliographies and story synopses of 45 French comics characters, biographies of the authors, over 330 black & white illustrations and an index.