Read Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.

Four stories of a Bronx tenement; Will Eisner coined the term graphic novel for it.

Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.

Tintin in 1930s Shanghai against opium smugglers and the Japanese occupation; the album where Herge did his research.

Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.

Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.

A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.

Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.