Captain W.E. Johns - France
Johns' books were very popular in France. Not only almost all Biggles books but
also the Worrals, Gimlet, Steeley and Science Fiction books and most of the
juvenile and adult fiction books were translated into French.
The publisher who published most of the books was:
Les Presses de la Cité (Paris):
Almost all the books were published in the so called "Collection Captain W.E.
Johns."
Collection Captain W.E. Johns:
no./ Aventures dans la mer de corail (1946)
GB: Worrals of the Islands
no./ (Worrals) Au-dessus de la foret vierge (1948)
GB: Worrals in the wilds
no. (1) - (Biggles et les) Corsaires du Pacifique (1946)
GB: Biggles delivers the goods
no. 2 - Jeunes filles de l'Intelligence Service (1945)
GB: Worrals goes east
no. 3 - (Biggles dans) Le bal des Spitfires (1949)
GB: Spitfire parade
no. 4 - Rendez-vous en Extrême-Orient (1948)
GB: Comrades in arms
no. 5 - King et ses hommes (1946)
GB: King of the commandos
no. 6 - Commandos en France (1945)
GB: Gimlet goes again
no. 7 - Le cygne jaune (1948)
GB: Sgt Bigglesworth CID
no. 8 - Le trésor des flibustiers (1948)
GB: Biggles flies west
no. 9 - Biggles au Pôle Sud (1948)
GB: Biggles' second case
no. 10 - Le mystère des avions disparus (1945)
GB: Biggles in the Orient
no. 11 - Jusqu'au bout (1949)
GB: Biggles sees it through
no. 12 - Mission en Catalogne (1949)
GB: Biggles in Spain
no. 13 - Biggles dans les Mers de Sud (1949)
GB: Biggles in the South Seas
no. 14 - Biggles à Bornêo (1949)
GB: Biggles in Borneo
no. 15 - King dans la jungle (1949)
GB: Gimlet's Oriental quest
no. 16 - Le lac maudit (1949)
GB: Worrals in the wastelands
no. 17 - Biggles joue le grand jeu (1949)
GB: Biggles hunts big game
no. 18 - La vallée des serpents à sonnettes (1949)
GB: The rustlers of Rattlesnake Valley
no. 19 - Biggles et Cie (1949)
GB: Biggles & Co
no. 20 - Biggles au Tibet (1949)
GB: Biggles hits the trail
no. 21 - Biggles au grand nord (1949)
GB: Biggles flies north
no. 22 - Aventuriers de l'air (1949)
GB: Wings of romance
no. 23 - Biggles en Afrique (1950)
GB: Biggles in Africa
no. 24 - Biggles s'en va-t-en guerre (1950)
GB: Biggles goes to war
no. 25 - Biggles combattant du ciel (1950)
GB: The rescue flight
no. 26 - Biggles en permission (1950)
GB: Biggles takes a holiday
no. 27 - King à la rescousse (1950)
GB: Gimlet lends a hand
no. 28 - La bataille dans le désert (1950)
GB: Desert night
no. 30 - Le démon des sables (1950)
GB: Worrals goes afoot
no. 31 - Biggles cherche de l'or en barre (1950)
GB: Biggles breaks the silence
no. 32 - Service secret (1950)
GB: Sinister service
no. 33 - Biggles en danger (1950)
GB: Biggles gets his men
no. 34 - L'oasis perdue (1950)
GB: Short sorties
no. 35 - Biggles en Arabie (1950)
GB: Another job for Biggles
no. 36 - King et ses brigands (1951)
GB: Gimlet bores in
no. 37 - l'île interdite (1951)
GB: Worrals investigates
no. 43 - Biggles détective de l'air (1951)
GB: Biggles air detective
no. 44 - Biggles s'en mêle (1951)
GB: Biggles works it out
no. 45 - La momie égyptienne (1951)
GB: Dr. Vane answers the call
no. 46 - King et les loups-garous (1948)
GB: Gimlet mops up
no. 47 - Retour de King (1947)
GB: Gimlet comes home
no. 48 - Rendez-vous avec Biggles (1952)
GB: Comrades in arms
no. 49 - Worrals courrier secret (1951)
GB: Worrals flies again
no. 50 - Biggles dans le désert (1951)
GB: Biggles sweeps the desert
no. 51 - Aux mains des pirates (1951)
GB: Champion of the main
no. 52 - Biggles porté manquant (1951)
GB: Biggles fails to return
no. 53 - Les exploits de Biggles (1952)
GB: Biggles charter pilot
no. 54 - Worrals et l'opale noire (1952)
GB: Worrals down under
no. 55 - King chez les Indiens (1952)
GB: Gimlet off the map
no. 56 - C'est X... qui frappe (1952)
GB: The unknown quantity
no. 57 - Biggles reprend le manche (1952)
GB: Biggles flies again
no. 58 - Espions de l'air (1952)
GB: The spyflyers
no. 59 - Biggles en croisière (1952)
GB: The cruise of the Condor
no. 60 - Biggles entre en scène (1952)
GB: Biggles goes to school
no. 62 - Château fort et faux billets (1952)
GB: The murder at Castle Deeping
no. 63 - La piste du chien blanc (1952)
GB: Murder by air
no. 64 - L'avion noir (1952)
GB: Sky high
no. 65 - Biggles à la dérive (1952)
GB: The black peril
no. 66 - Biggles chez l'ennemi (1953)
GB: Biggles flies east
no. 67 - Biggles en France (1952)
GB: Biggles of the Camel Squadron
no. 72 - Biggles court le risque (1953)
GB: Biggles takes the case
no. 74 - Biggles, pilote de chasse (1953)
GB: The Camels are coming
no. 75 - Biggles en Corée (1953)
GB: Biggles follows on
no. 77 - Tout va bien (1953)
GB: Steeley flies again
no. 79 - Biggles et l'eléphant noir (1953)
GB: Biggles and the black raider
no. 83 - King répond à tout (1953)
GB: Gimlet gets the answer
no. 89 - Biggles à la Jamaique (1953)
GB: Biggles in the blue
no. 93 - Biggles en Mongolie (1954)
GB: Biggles in the Gobi
no.100 - Huit affaires pour Biggles (1954)
GB: Biggles of the Special Air Police
no.105 - Rois de l'espace (1954)
GB: Kings of space
no.107 - King et les Zombies (1955)
GB: Gimlet takes a job
no.108 - Biggles autour du monde (1955)
GB: Biggles and the pirate treasure
no.109 - Biggles dans la Légion (1955)
GB: Biggles foreign legionnaire
no.110 - Biggles et le puzzle Chinois (1955)
GB: Biggles' Chinese puzzle
no.111 - Biggles en Australie (1955)
GB: Biggles in Australia
no.112 - Biggles l'échappe belle (1955)
GB: Biggles cuts it fine
no.113 - Retour sur Mars (1955)
GB: Return to mars
no.116 - L'aventure sans frontière (1956)
GB: Adventure bound
no.117 - Biggles, jeune pilote (1955)
GB: Biggles of 266
no.119 - Biggles fait ses premières armes (1956)
GB: Biggles learns to fly
no.120 - Biggles encore à l'ouvrage (1956)
GB: No rest for Biggles
no.121 - (La) Croisière aux étoiles (1956)
GB: Now to the stars
no.122 - Biggles en Sologne (1956)
GB: Biggles takes charge
no.123 - Biggles et Scotland Yard (1956)
GB: Biggles of the Interpol
no.127 - Biggles à Soho (1957)
GB: Biggles on the home front
no.128 - Captifs de l'espace (1957)
GB: To outer space
no.129 - Biggles touche au but (1957)
GB: Biggles makes ends meet
no.130 - Biggles cherche et trouve (1957)
GB: Biggles presses on
no.132 - Vers les mondes lointains (1958)
GB: The edge of beyond
no.137 - L'île mystérieuse de Biggles (1958)
GB: Biggles on mystery island
no.138 - Les mondes sans horizon (1958)
GB: The death rays of Ardilla
no.139 - Biggles enterre la hache de guerre (1958)
GB: Biggles buries the hatchet
no.140 - Motif d'enquête (1959)
GB: No motive for murder
no.142 - Biggles au Mexique (1959)
GB: Biggles in Mexico
no.143 - Biggles et l'Interpol (1959)
GB: Biggles' combined operation
no.144 - L'homme qui perdit son chemin (1959)
GB: The man who lost his way
no.145 - Biggles dans les Highlands (1961)
GB: Biggles and the poor rich boy
no.146 - Les héros de Biggles (1961)
GB: Biggles book of heroes
no.147 - Vers les mondes inconnus (1961)
GB: To worlds unknown
no.148 - Où plane l'aigle (1961)
GB: Where the golden eagle soars
no.149 - Biggles et les hommes léopards (1960)
GB: Biggles and the leopards of Zinn
no.150 - Biggles aux Indes (1961)
GB: Biggles goes home
no.151 - Biggles au Pérou (1962)
GB: Orchids for Biggles
no.152 - Biggles mène l'enquête (1962)
GB: Biggles goes alone
no.153 - Biggles cherche fortune (1962)
GB: Biggles forms a syndicate
no.154 - Biggles chasse le millionaire (1962)
GB: Biggles and the missing millionaire
no.155 - La jeune équipe (1963)
GB: Adventures of the junior detection club
no.156 - La planète infernale (1963)
GB: The quest for the perfect planet
no.157 - Disparu dans l'espace (1963)
GB: The man who vanished into space
no.158 - Biggles se fâche (1963)
GB: Biggles takes it rough
no. 159 - Biggles s'en mêle (1963)
GB: Biggles takes a hand
no. 160 - Biggles et la police de l'air (1963)
GB: Biggles and the plane that disappeared
Omnibus Editions:
King répond à tout/ Au-dessus de la forêt vierge (1948)
GB: Gimlet gets the answer / Worrals in the wilds
Le cygne jaune / Rendez-vous avec Biggles (1952)
GB: Sgt Bigglesworth CID / Comrades in arms
King et ses hommes / Biggles dans le bal des Spitfire (1952)
GB: King of the commandos/ Spitfire parade
Biggles et le trésor des flibustiers/ Biggles combattant du ciel (1954)
GB: Biggles flies west / Biggles air commodore
Biggles au Tibet/ King dans la jungle (1954)
GB: Biggles hits the trail / Gimlet's Oriental quest
Biggles et l'elephant noir / Biggles au grand nord (19..)
GB: Biggles and the black raider / Biggles flies north
Biggles et l'échappe belle/ Huit affaires pour Biggles (19..)
GB: Biggles cuts it fine / Biggles of the Special Air Police
Tout va bien / Biggles en danger (19..)
GB: Steeley flies again / Biggles gets his men
Biggles autour du monde / La piste du chien blanc (19..)
GB: Biggles and the pirate treasure / Murder by air
Château-fort en faux billets / King et les Zombies (19..)
GB: The murder at castle Deeping / Gimlet takes a job
Biggles dans les Mers du Sud / Biggles chez l'ennemi (19..)
GB: Biggles in the Souts Seas / Biggles flies east
Rois de l'espace / Retour sur Mars (19..)
GB: Kings of space / Return to Mars
Collection illustrée Captain W.E. Johns:
no. 1 - Biggles au Cap Horn (1960)
GB: Biggles at world's end
no. 3 - Biggles et les hommes-léopards (1960)
GB: Biggles and the leopards of Zinn
Editions G.P., (Presses de la Cité, Paris):
Collection Spirale:
no. 426 - Biggles et le masque noir (1967)
GB: Biggles and the black mask
no. 433 - Biggles en Bohême (1968)
GB: Biggles looks back
no. 443 - Biggles dans le jungle (1968)
GB: Biggles in the Terai (!)
no. 157 - Biggles et la cargaison perdue (1969)
GB: Biggles and the lost sovereigns
no. 160 - Biggles dans les sables maudits (1970)
GB: Biggles and the plot that failed
B. ARTHAUD, Grenoble, Paris:
Collection les amis des jeunes:
no. 4 - Worrals en mission (1947)
GB: Worrals on the war path
no. .. - Biggles en Norvège (1948)
GB: Biggles defies the swastika
no. .. - Biggles dans la jungle (1948)
GB: Biggles in the jungle
no. 21 - Biggles agent secret (1950)
GB: Biggles secret agent
no. .. - Biggles en Egypte (1950)
GB: Biggles flies south
no. 25- Biggles dans la Baltique (1951)
GB: Biggles in the Baltic
no. 29- Biggles dans l'Océan Indien (1953)
GB: Biggles air commodore
Hachette:
Un exploit de Worrals (1951)
GB: Worrals carries on
Worrals de la R.A.F. (1952)
GB: Worrals of the W.A.A.F.
De Frech Biggles and Gimlet Comic albums
Published by Les Presses de la Cité:
Biggles:
No. 1 & 2 (1963): Biggles au Cap Horn
No. 3 & 4 (1963): Biggles et les hommes leopards
No. 5 & 6 (1963): Biggles, le trésor des flibustiers
No. 7 & 8 (1964): Biggles au Pôle Sud
No. 9 & 10 (1964): Biggles dans les mers du sud
No. 11 & 12 (1964): Biggles à Bornéo
No. 13 (1964): Biggles au grand nord
No. 14 (1966): Biggles en Afrique
No. 15 (1966): Biggles cherche l'or en barre
No. 16 (1966): Biggles en danger
No. 17 (1966): Biggles en Arabie
No. 18 (1966): Biggles dans le désert
No. 19 (1967): Biggles au pays de la soif
No. 20 (1967): Biggles au Tibet
No. 21 (1967): Biggles porté manquant
No. 22 (1968): Biggles, le nuage pourpre
Gimlet:
No. 1 (1967): King et ses hommes
No. 2 (1968): King et les otages
No. 3 (1968): King et le plan du trésor
No. 4 (1968): King dans la jungle
No. 5 (1968): King à la rescousse
No. 6 (1969): King et ses brigands
No. 7 (1969): Retour de King
No. 8 (1969): King et les loups-garous
No. 9 (1969): King dans la tamière aux loups
No. 10 (1970): King chez les Indiens
No. 11 (1970): King répond à tout
No. 12 (1970): Le lys lumineux
Details on these titles can be found in the Captain W.E. Johns
Catalogus.
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