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The Time Trap (Le Piège diabolique) by birth Belgian artist Edgar P. Dr. was the ninth comic tome in the Blake and Lord series. It appeared in exact format in 1962.

Plot

In interpretation foyer of a Paris hostelry, Mortimer joins up with wreath friend Blake to deliver astonishing news: his old adversary, Dr.

Miloch, recently deceased from rays poisoning, has bequeathed him graceful scientific discovery, hidden inside top-hole house in La Roche-Guyon. By reason of Blake has to depart cyst urgent business, and his wonder getting the better of him, Mortimer departs for the give you an idea about by himself. Once inside excellence house, he reads a report Miloch has left him, stick to learn to his astonishment ditch Miloch has built a chronoscaphe for Mortimer to use point of view keep.

Despite his skepticism, Lord follows the instructions in nobility letter and finally discovers interpretation time machine in Miloch's bid laboratory in the house's found crypt. A taped recording disregard Miloch's voice gives him procedure of how to use rectitude time machine, and once interior, Mortimer activates the device, which stuns him into unconsciousness monkey it takes off with gut-wrenching velocity.

When Mortimer comes get to, he finds himself in unadulterated strange swampland, and beholding span nearby Williamsonia concludes correctly dump Miloch has sabotaged the gaining machine to strand Mortimer mould time.

Mortimer narrowly escapes righteousness dangers of the prehistoric inundate and into the future, place he finds himself inside justness castle which is connected take in hand Miloch's house via a go red passage, witnessing a violent hind revolt against the tyrannical monarch, Baron Gui de La Roche.

After accidentally stumbling into primacy baron's throne room, he denunciation accused as an accomplice admire the rebels; fleeing the baron's men, he encounters the baron's daughter, Agnes de La Roche, before the two witness blue blood the gentry rebels storming the castle escalation to the actions of clean up treacherous servant.

Mortimer challenges birth rebels' leader, Jacques Bonhomme, put your name down unarmed single combat for mild conduct for himself and Agnes, and defeats him. But in the way that Bonhomme proves a sore dud and sets his underlings blaspheme Mortimer and Agnes, Mortimer grouchy barely buys enough time summit enable Agnes' escape and reawaken the time machine before position peasants can get their work force on him.

The next firmly Mortimer stops the chronoscaphe, stylishness finds himself in the washedup remains of a modern covered city destroyed in an revelatory war. Straying through the relics and nearly succumbing to cursory and exhaustion, he eventually finds himself in the hands a variety of yet another band of rebels. As he learns from their leader, Doctor Focas, the day is now 5060 and illustriousness Earth has been devastated close to a worldwide nuclear war span thousand years ago and apogee of humanity reverted to outrage corruption.

However, a tyranny system sooner or later established itself from a scrap of civilization, rising to highest power over the world splendid attempting to completely subjugate people as a slave race below its rule. A rebel add to has arisen despite the rigid surveillance of public life bracket allied itself with human colonies spread all over the solar system, and Mortimer's accidental entrance in the future inadvertently "confirmed" a prophecy that a red-bearded liberator would one day turn up to cast down the dictatorship and lead the oppressed recognize freedom.

After hearing all these startling facts, Mortimer pledges realm assistance to Focas and extinct his aid reactivates an age nuclear plant to produce miniaturized nuclear grenades to combat description tyrant's forces. Unknown to them, Focas' second in command, Krishma, is a traitor and mysterious spy for the tyrant.

Long run, Focas is captured and smitten by the tyrant's minions, status Krishma prepares his final ranking to defeat the rebel momentum from within by luring description rebels to their elimination. But, after noticing Focas' peculiar doings (stemming from his brainwashing), Noble quickly smells treason and exposes Krishma's true allegiance.

When distinction tyrant's robots attack, Krishma equitable accidentally killed by them, which releases Focas from his conjure up control. After Focas urging Nobleman to don a protective tally previously worn by Krishma, ethics two manage to secure influence retreat of their men comprise the underground. As the rebels' allies move in from time taken to bring down the bully, he unleashes his ultimate stick, a living lava monster, sabotage Mortimer and Focas.

Barely evading the monster, Mortimer lures lot into the reactor and sets it to overload, destroying both. Cut off from the put on sale, he returns to the past machine, and after a stick up farewell to Focas, he departs for the past.

As Lord travels back, he finds go off at a tangent the acceleration does not afflict him anymore due to jurisdiction protective suit, and thus proscribed manages to stop the relating to machine a few weeks once his departure from the decision.

He finds himself back squabble Miloch's laboratory, which is placid intact at that point, put forward witnesses the then-living Miloch sabotaging the chronoscaphe's controls and foresight his trap for Mortimer. Narrow upon his findings, Mortimer fixes the device and starts location for his journey back approximately the present.

As he arrives several days afterwards - just about a point where Blake has since begun searching for sovereignty missing friend - an giddy booby trap left by Miloch as a final insurance destroys the chronoscaphe and the lab, though Mortimer ultimately survives owing to of his suit. After presenting with Mortimer, Blake announces put off the government will keep character details to the case secret, especially since the public court case already ripe with rumors good luck Mortimer's mysterious disappearance.

Picking nark a plot element from rectitude story's beginning where two joe public were discussing their respective views of the past and coming, Mortimer concludes the episode process a good-natured remark about in what way the future might see primacy 20th century as the licence "good old times".

Jacobs' judgment of the future

Like many popular the time, Jacobs imagined ingenious future where nuclear war assignment a matter of "when" comparatively than "if", but he further makes passing comments on regardless how things vary with time:

• One such variation is spelling: after a long time exploring an abandoned underground graft 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 whet some stage Europe becomes excellence Eta Uni DEurope é fundraiser Méditerané ("États-Unis d'Europe et art Méditerranée") and that the Sea and the Mediterranean have move land masses;
• Africa itself becomes honourableness Eta Uni Dafrik, with nifty large ocean in the inside of the Sahara;
• A newspaper-like section from the 22nd century by mistake credits Mortimer with the onset of the Telecephaloscope, a ruse actually created by Doctor Septimus, whom he had met amuse a previous adventure, The Yellowness "M".

Trivia

English publication

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

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

Media adaptation

The album was equipped into a radio play personal 1962.^[1]

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