Series Book Art - Internal Illustrations

Series Book Art - Internal Illustrations
The Three Investigators - French Editions

A red C indicates that a particular gallery contains captions for each picture, consisting of an excerpt from the story in question.

• French Three Investigators editions:
(Sort by: US Order or French Order)

US Title	French Title	Year	Artist
1 - Terror Castle	Au rendez-vous des revenants	1966	Jacques Poirier	C
1 - Terror Castle (2nd. ed)	Au rendez-vous des revenants	1979	Jacques Poirier	C
2 - Stuttering Parrot	Le perroquet qui bégayait	1967	Jacques Poirier	C
2 - Stuttering Parrot (2nd. ed)	Le perroquet qui bégayait	1977	Madeleine Prévost	C
3 - Whispering Mummy	La momie qui chuchotait	1967	Jacques Poirier	C
4 - Green Ghost	Le Chinois qui verdissait	1968	Jacques Poirier	C
5 - Vanishing Treasure	L'arc-en-ciel a pris la fuite	1969	Jacques Poirier	C
6 - Skeleton Island	Le spectre des chevaux de bois	1970	Jacques Poirier	C
7 - Fiery Eye	Treize bustes pour Auguste	1971	Jacques Poirier	C
8 - Silver Spider	Une araignée appelée à régner	1972	Jacques Poirier	C
9 - Screaming Clock	Les douze pendules de Théodule	1972	Jacques Poirier	C
10 - Moaning Cave	Le trombone du diable	1973	Jacques Poirier	C
11 - Talking Skull	Le crâne qui crânait	1984	Yves Beaujard
12 - Laughing Shadow	L'ombre qui éclairait tout	1983	Paul & Gaétan Brizzi
13 - Crooked Cat	Le chat qui clignait de l'oeil	1974	Jacques Poirier
14 - Coughing Dragon	Le dragon qui éternuait	1973	Jacques Poirier
15 - Flaming Footprints	L'aigle qui n'avait plus qu'une tête	1975	Jacques Poirier	C
16 - Nervous Lion	Le lion qui claquait des dents	1980	Françoise Pichard	C
17 - Singing Serpent	Le serpent qui fredonnait	1977	Jacques Poirier
18 - Shrinking House	Le tableau se met à table	1980	Françoise Pichard	C
19 - Phantom Lake	Le journal qui s'effeuillait	1976	Jacques Poirier	C
20 - Monster Mountain	L'insaisissable homme des neiges	1975	Jacques Poirier	C
21 - Haunted Mirror	Le miroir qui glaçait	1981	Françoise Pichard
22 - Dead Man's Riddle	Le testament énigmatique	1979	Françoise Pichard
24 - Death Trap Mine	La Mine qui ne payait pas de mine	1978	Jacques Poirier
25 - Dancing Devil	Le démon qui dansait la gigue	1978	Jacques Poirier
26 - Headless Horse	L'épée qui se tirait	1985	Yves Beaujard	C
27 - Magic Circle	L'éditeur qui méditait	1987	Yves Beaujard	C
28 - Deadly Double	La Saisie des sosies	1987	Yves Beaujard	C
29 - Sinister Scarecrow	L'épouvantable épouvantail	1981	Françoise Pichard	C
30 - Shark Reef	Le requin qui resquillait	1982	Michel Rouge
31 - Scar-Faced Beggar	L'aveugle qui en mettait plein la vue	1986	Yves Beaujard	C
33 - Purple Pirate	Le flibustier piraté	1986	Yves Beaujard	C
35 - Kidnapped Whale	La baleine emballée	1986	Yves Beaujard	C

Title numbers 23, 32, 34, 36-41 and 43 were not published in France. #42 Wrecker's Rock was released in 1988, but internal illustrations were not included.

For a more comprehensive listing of the French series, including details of reprints and later editions, please visit Jonny Nilsson's excellent Varania website. Jon Preddle & Rowan Morrell also kindly assisted with the translation of the story titles.

The Artists

• Jacques Poirier:

Jacques Poirier was born in Canada in 1942, and was only 23 when he illustrated the French edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries. The following year, in 1966, he worked on the first title in the Three Investigators series - The Secret of Terror Castle - which was also liberally populated with over 50 individual illustrations, many of which were in colour.

Mr Poirer continued his prodigious output for the series until 1979, at which point he had contributed over 900 illustrations in total to 18 of the books, plus a second edition of Terror Castle.

http://www.pacificgallery.ca/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=25
http://www.galleryrufus.com/poirier_jacques/jacquespoirier6.html

• Françoise Pichard:

A prolific illustrator of many different children's series', Françoise Pichard is more commonly known in France as 'Chard'. She is currently a cartoonist for the controversial French newspaper Rivarol.

• Yves Beaujard:

Born in France in 1939, Yves Beaujard lived in the United States for ten years, where he worked as an engraver, producing portraits of American presidents for US banknotes. After returning to France in 1977, he became an illustrator for many popular youth series, including The Three Investigators:

http://www.philateliedestaaf.fr/HTML/Artistes/Beaujard.htm

• Michel Rouge:

A French graphic artist renowned for his work on many different comic books, Michel Rouge was born in 1950.

http://lambiek.net/artists/r/rouge.htm

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