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The Nyctalope is the indirect witness to a crime committed by Doctor Korrid s, who disintegrated a man who was once one of Leo's allies. Korrid s threatens the Nyctalope's wife, Sylvie, and their son Pierre. To protect them, Leo sends them to Spain, to his friend Duke Don Pedro d'Arandar. His real enemy turns out to be the Red Princess, Diana Ivanovna Krosnovief, who now dubs herself "Titania", is married to Korrid s, and is at the head of a new terrorist organization, the Hashshashins. They manages to kidnap Sylvie and Pierre and imprisons them on a small island off the coast of Spain. The Nyctalope, accompanied by his friends Gn Mitang, Vitto and Soca, must now storm the island and defeat Titania and Korrid s' fearsome lightning projector... The Nyctalope vs Titania (1929) is a sequel to The Nyctalope vs The Antichrist and the fifth adventure of France's greatest pulp superhero.

In The Nyctalope vs The Antichrist (1927), the indomitable Leo Saint-Clair, a.k.a. The Nyctalope, faces his greatest foe ever: Leonid Zattan, evil incarnate, Prince of Issyk-Kul, a secret kingdom kocated in central Asia. Leo is drawn into a merciless struggle between two worldwide organizations: one serving Good and defending the established order, led by the wise kabbalist Mathias Lumen; the other serving Evil and aiming to overthrow the governments of the world in order to take advantage of the resulting chaos and seize power, led by Zattan and his ally, the Red Princess, Diana Ivanovna Krasnoview, Queen of the Hashishins. Victory depends on the fulfillment of a Nostradamus prophecy that predicts the coming of the Antichrist, who can only be defeated by the marriage of a "Golden Virgin" (the wealthy heiress Sylvie MacDhul) to a new Messiah. The Nyctalope vs. The Antichrist is a pivotal novel in the series. In it, Leo meets the man who will his best and most loyal adviser, Gn Mitang. He marries Sylvie, who will give him a son, and founds an international crime-fighting organization to ensure the world's safety.

On the eve of World War II, Leo Saint-Clair, a.k.a. The Nyctalope, faces one of his deadliest enemies: a mysterious and unidentified foe who has the power to kill remotely by the simple exercise of his will. Who is this secret Master of Life? What are his goals? To find, unmask and neutralize the "Master of Life" without first perishing, the Nyctalope and his friends must engage in a supreme battle of wits that takes them from a French spa to the far corners of the world-a forbidden lamasery in the heart of Tibet where the answers to all their questions lie. The Nyctalope vs. The Master of Life, the twelfth adventure of France's earliest superhero, was first serialized in the newspaper Le Matin in 1938-39, but never collected in book form until today." The Nyctalope is fun because he straddles the line between pulp hero and superhero and uses elements of both." Travis Hiltz." One of the pioneers of superhero fiction." Jean-Marc Lofficier.