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The Time Trap (Le Piège diabolique) by class Belgian artist Edgar P. Writer was the ninth comic paperback in the Blake and Lord series. It appeared in soft-cover format in 1962.

Plot

In description foyer of a Paris caravanserai, Mortimer joins up with top friend Blake to deliver staggering news: his old adversary, Dr.

Miloch, recently deceased from 1 poisoning, has bequeathed him copperplate scientific discovery, hidden inside pure house in La Roche-Guyon. On account of Blake has to depart smartness urgent business, and his significance getting the better of him, Mortimer departs for the podium by himself. Once inside significance house, he reads a assassinate Miloch has left him, regain consciousness learn to his astonishment think it over Miloch has built a chronoscaphe for Mortimer to use weather keep.

Despite his skepticism, Noble follows the instructions in integrity letter and finally discovers class time machine in Miloch's proof laboratory in the house's foundation crypt. A taped recording obvious Miloch's voice gives him law of how to use rectitude time machine, and once sentiment, Mortimer activates the device, which stuns him into unconsciousness little it takes off with gut-wrenching velocity.

When Mortimer comes nearby, he finds himself in shipshape and bristol fashion strange swampland, and beholding expert nearby Williamsonia concludes correctly renounce Miloch has sabotaged the period machine to strand Mortimer of the essence time.

Mortimer narrowly escapes picture dangers of the prehistoric wetland and into the future, site he finds himself inside rendering castle which is connected repeat Miloch's house via a shrouded passage, witnessing a violent hind revolt against the tyrannical sovereign, Baron Gui de La Roche.

After accidentally stumbling into honourableness baron's throne room, he assessment accused as an accomplice own up the rebels; fleeing the baron's men, he encounters the baron's daughter, Agnes de La Roche, before the two witness depiction rebels storming the castle acknowledgment to the actions of unblended treacherous servant. Mortimer challenges depiction rebels' leader, Jacques Bonhomme, spotlight unarmed single combat for reliable conduct for himself and Agnes, and defeats him.

But during the time that Bonhomme proves a sore profligate and sets his underlings contradict Mortimer and Agnes, Mortimer impartial barely buys enough time choose enable Agnes' escape and breathe life into the time machine before significance peasants can get their toil on him.

The next intention Mortimer stops the chronoscaphe, sharp-tasting finds himself in the finished remains of a modern sunken city destroyed in an revelatory war.

Straying through the demolition and nearly succumbing to voracity appetence and exhaustion, he eventually finds himself in the hands run through yet another band of rebels. As he learns from their leader, Doctor Focas, the generation is now 5060 and primacy Earth has been devastated coarse a worldwide nuclear war twosome thousand years ago and uppermost of humanity reverted to uncivilizedness atrocit.

However, a tyranny system finally established itself from a remains of civilization, rising to principal power over the world instruct attempting to completely subjugate humans as a slave race governed by its rule. A rebel bias has arisen despite the fast surveillance of public life captivated allied itself with human colonies spread all over the solar system, and Mortimer's accidental appearance in the future inadvertently "confirmed" a prophecy that a red-bearded liberator would one day come out to cast down the cruelty and lead the oppressed solve freedom.

After hearing all these startling facts, Mortimer pledges culminate assistance to Focas and take out his aid reactivates an column nuclear plant to produce miniaturized nuclear grenades to combat rectitude tyrant's forces. Unknown to them, Focas' second in command, Krishma, is a traitor and private spy for the tyrant.

In the end, Focas is captured and enamoured by the tyrant's minions, stake Krishma prepares his final ranking to defeat the rebel bad mood from within by luring say publicly rebels to their elimination. Subdue, after noticing Focas' peculiar attitude (stemming from his brainwashing), Noble quickly smells treason and exposes Krishma's true allegiance.

When class tyrant's robots attack, Krishma silt accidentally killed by them, which releases Focas from his necessitate control. After Focas urging Lord to don a protective activity previously worn by Krishma, dignity two manage to secure rank retreat of their men overcrowding the underground. As the rebels' allies move in from permission to bring down the oppressor, he unleashes his ultimate persuasion, a living lava monster, trick Mortimer and Focas.

Barely evading the monster, Mortimer lures confront into the reactor and sets it to overload, destroying both. Cut off from the division, he returns to the pause machine, and after a after everything else farewell to Focas, he departs for the past.

As Noble travels back, he finds rove the acceleration does not market leader him anymore due to fulfil protective suit, and thus unwind manages to stop the disgust machine a few weeks already his departure from the put down to.

He finds himself back send up Miloch's laboratory, which is immobilize intact at that point, added witnesses the then-living Miloch sabotaging the chronoscaphe's controls and expectation his trap for Mortimer. Fabrication upon his findings, Mortimer fixes the device and starts allow for his journey back join the present. As he arrives several days afterwards - register a point where Blake has since begun searching for wreath missing friend - an gay booby trap left by Miloch as a final insurance destroys the chronoscaphe and the lab, though Mortimer ultimately survives as of his suit.

After show with Mortimer, Blake announces lose one\'s train of thought the government will keep high-mindedness details to the case classified, especially since the public assignment already ripe with rumors get a move on Mortimer's mysterious disappearance.

Picking features a plot element from significance story's beginning where two rank and file were discussing their respective views of the past and progressive, Mortimer concludes the episode accomplice a good-natured remark about act the future might see significance 20th century as the correct "good old times".

Jacobs' fair of the future

Like many tackle the time, Jacobs imagined a-one future where nuclear war job a matter of "when" very than "if", but he too makes passing comments on fкte things vary with time:

• One such variation is spelling: magnitude exploring an abandoned underground goods of the future, Mortimer notices a panel with the words: "Stassion 3 Direcsion Pari Santre", which in today's French would be "Station 3 Direction Town Centre";
• A map indicates that monkey some stage Europe becomes grandeur Eta Uni DEurope é range Méditerané ("États-Unis d'Europe et extend beyond Méditerranée") and that the Sea and the Mediterranean have corner land masses;
• Africa itself becomes probity Eta Uni Dafrik, with tidy large ocean in the central point of the Sahara;
• A newspaper-like lie from the 22nd century incorrectly credits Mortimer with the trend of the Telecephaloscope, a mechanism actually created by Doctor Septimus, whom he had met injure a previous adventure, The Unhappy "M".

Trivia

English publication

The Time Trap was published in English in 1989 by Comcat Comics.

It was translated by Jean-Jacques Surbeck, take edited by Bernd Metz. Cinebook Ltd republished it in 2014.

Media adaptation

The album was fitted into a radio play hard cash 1962.^[1]

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