Tina was a French small format comic strip series published by Aredit from 1967 onwards. Between 1969 and 1979, various issues of Tina carried comic strip adaptations of W.E. Johns stories featuring Worrals. Some were based on the original Worrals novels while others were actually adaptations of Biggles and other stories with the lead characters changed to Worrals and Frecks!
Worrals stories in Tina[]
Issue | Title | Date | Remarks |
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No. 15 | Worrals - Au-dessus de la forêt vierge | Apr 69 | |
No. 16 | Worrals gagne la partie | May 69 | |
No. 19 | Jeune fille de l'intelligence service | Aug 69 | Based on Worrals Goes East |
No. 20 | Une mission difficile | Sep 69 | Continuation of Worrals Goes East |
No. 23 | Le Lac Maudit | Dec 69 | Based on Worrals in the Wastelands |
No. 24 | Mission accomplie | Jan 70 | Continuation of Worrals in the Wastelands. No. 21-24 are also collected as one album in Tina S.P. 27. |
No. 27 | Le démon des sables - 1 | Apr 70 | Based on Worrals Goes Afoot |
No. 28 | Le démon des sables - 2 | Jun 70 | Part 2 of Worrals Goes Afoot.
No. 25-28 are also collected as one album Tina Special 33 |
No. 31 | Une nouvelle mission | Sep 70 | Based on Worrals Investigates |
No. 32 | L'île interdite | Oct 70 | Continuation of Une nouvelle mission. |
No. 35 | Courrier secret | Jan 71 | Based on Worrals Flies Again No. 33-36 are also collected as one album in Tina 536. |
No. 36 | Le château de la rose | Feb 71 | Continuation of Courrier secret. |
No. 38 | Worrals et l'Opale noire | Apr 71 | Adaptation of Worrals Down Under. No. 38-41 are also collected as one album in Tina S.P. 544 |
No. 39 | Worrals mène le jeu | May 71 | Continuation of Worrals et l'Opale noire. |
No. 40 | Aventure dans la mer de corail | Jun 71 | Adaptation of Worrals of the Islands. No. 38-41 are also collected as one album in Tina S.P. 544 |
No. 41 | Quand vient la mousson | Jul 71 | Continuation of Aventure dans la mer de corail. |
No. 42 | La disparition de Doris | Aug 71 | Based on On the Home Front in Comrades in Arms.
No. 37, 42-44 are also collected as one album in Tina 565 |
No. 47 | Le secret de Linton | Jan 72 | Based on Biggles Takes a Holiday! |
No. 48 | La vallée du paradis - 1 | Feb 72 | Part 2 of Biggles Takes a Holiday. |
No. 49 | La vallée du paradis - 2 | Mar 72 | Part 3 of Biggles Takes a Holiday. |
No. 50 | Worrals gagne la partie | Jun 72 | Part 4 of Biggles Takes a Holiday. No.47-50 are also collected together as one album Tina 580 |
No. 55 | Worrals Expédition au Brésil | Mar 73 | Based on The Cruise of the Condor. |
No. 56 | Worrals Le trésor des Incas | May 73 | Part 2 of The Cruise of the Condor.
No. 55-58 are also collected as one album Tina 658 |
No. 68 | Un voyage interrompu | Apr 75 | Based on part 1 of Sinister Service. |
No. 69 | Mission secrète | Jun 75 | Based on part 2 of Sinister Service. |
No. 94 | Les aventuriers de l'air | Aug 79 | Based on the Steeley novel Wings of Romance. |
No. 95 | Worrals en Carabonie | Oct 79 | Part 2 of Wings of Romance. |
See Also[]
Comics based on the works of W. E. Johns also appear in other series published by Artima/Aredit:
- Biggles - the main or "home" series and features adaptation of full length novels.
- Tex Bill
- Thierry
- Jacques Rogy
- Olympic
- Temeraire
- King - Gimlet
- Commando - A story from Comrades in Arms
- Tina - Worrals
- Cosmos - Kings of Space