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Clifton
(by Turk & Degroot)
See also: Comic Errors
Clifton. Colonel Clifton. Amateur detective who collects cigar-bands and adores his car - which gets wrecked time and time again. His cook is Mrs Partridge, world-famous for her goulash.
| Nr. | Cover | Title | Story |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Dear Mr. Wilkinson | Mr. Wilkinson can, through pure brain-power, make things move. Really move, including cupboards and things. No problem there, but some strange crimes occurred at the time Wilkinson was performing in the area, and there is no other explanation than that "someone" has been transporting pretty heavy things through the air. So Wilkinson is the prime suspect. But isn't that a bit obvious? |
| 2 |  |
De lachende dief (The laughing thief) |
A first announced robbery of a jewelry is not really taken seriously - and that was a mistake. The second announcement is for the robbery of a movie-theatre, and despite the presence of the police and Colonel Clifton, the robbery is successful as well. Then the thieves become bold and announce a third hold-up. Clifton is there again to await them, with the police, in full force this time. Will that stop them? And why do they announce their actions every time? |
| 3 |  |
7 Dagen om te sterven (7 Days to die) |
Betty, a revolutionary computer, is used to coordinate the elimination of dangerous elements. It send the information of their targets to two killers, who then have a week before they should contact MI5 again. But now Betty made a little mistake: in stead of sending two killers to a real enemy, she has sent them to Clifton... |
| 4 |  |
Alias Lord X | In the middle of his bread is a note warning a prisoner that he should expect to be freed soon. And with some ingenuity that succeeds. Lord X, in real life known as Clifton (!), is asked by the now ex-prisoner to join an organization that is preparing something big... |
| 5 |  |
Hartkloppingen (Heartbeats) |
Seven big names of the financial world have been killed in the last tow months. Clifton is asked to assist Callahan in the inquest, but now Callahan is killed as well and Clifton will have to work on his own. He starts at Callahan's house, and that arouses the interest of some people that are watching the house... |
| 6 |  |
Een panter voor de kolonel (A panther for the colonel) |
When coming home Clifton finds a panther and the secretary of a sheik in his house. He is summoned by the British Intelligence Service to accompany the sheik to Switzerland, since he fears for a murder attempt. And his fears will prove to be right very soon... |
| 7 |  |
Sir Jason | Clifton is asked to finish the training of Sir Jason, a young man who didn't really ask to be in her Majesty's Secret Service. Sir Jason is among the best in his class, has all the qualities he needs to be good in his job, but he has one quality too much: fear. Clifton's job: help him get over it. |
| 8 |  |
Week-end om te doden (Weekend to kill) |
A writer of detective stories wants to meet a real detective to make her stories more truthful, and since Clifton is the greatest of all... Just then he gets a call from sir Alec Sinclair, who wants to get rid of some car-parts - always useful for Clifton. He takes the writer, and upon arrival they notice that the story behind the car-parts is not so nice... |
| 9 |  |
Kidnapping | The yearly scouts-camp. Clifton leads a groups of boys to Oldchester, but already the first day things go wrong: the young Posh Peacock, son of a rich father, disappears. And at the same time there is no trace of Thrifty Duck. When the group finds tire-tracks, there's only one conclusion: kidnapping... |
| 10 |  |
Uit de oude doos (Golden oldies) (by Bédu & De Groot) |
Clifton meets a journalist of the Clarion, who wants to interview him. He tells the journalist about his first inquiries, dating back to his days in college, and to the war. |
| 11 |  |
Geheugenverlies (Amnesia) (by Bédu & De Groot) |
A slightly irritated Clifton hits a pedestrian. The man needs to be hospitalized, and Clifton wakes at his bed, feeling responsible. When the man wakes up, he doesn't remember his own identity. Clifton decides to take Michael, as he "baptized" him, home to try to find out who he really is. Some people, less nice people, seem to know more... |
| 12 |  |
De laatste voorstelling (The last show) (by Bédu & De Groot) |
Clifton is utterly surprised to hear that a producer wants to make a movie about his adventures. He hasn't read more than a few pages of the script before calling the producer to tell him the story is a load of nonsense, he'll have a busy job as advisor. On the set there is more than a little tension due to the rude producer, but something that looks like a murder attempt sure adds a dimension... |
| 13 |  |
Matoutou-falaise (By Bédu & De Groot) |
He was on vacation in Martinique, but her Majesty's Services found him, and asked him to check on a colleague who hadn't reported home as he usually did. He couldn't, he was murdered. He was working on recovering documents from a crashed plane, but it was obvious that people from other countries would like those documents too. And since the official cargo of the crashed plane was gold, not only secret agents were in the vicinity... |
| 14 |  |
De McGregor clan (The McGregor clan) (By Bédu) |
One evening a young female biker bumps into Clifton's car. No big deal really, and when she's at his front-door the next morning he presumes it has to do with that small accident. But in stead she asks for his help: she's of the McGregor family, and after a jewellery-theft her brother is the prime suspect. Rather than having a full blown police-investigation, they'd prefer to have a discrete inquest by a famous detective... |
| 15 |  |
Een fataal spel (A fatal game) (By Bédu) |
Four ex-members of MI5 were killed in the last four days. The last one managed to give a cryptic message to Clifton before he was shot down. A search in the offices of two of the murdered men reveals nothing more than a few Tarot-cards. And then Clifton takes a call that wasn't meant for him, and that speeds things up quite a bit... |
| 16 |  |
De kus van de cobra (The cobra's kiss) (By Bédu) |
David Lawrence, journalist at the Daily Views, went missing in Paris after he started researching Alex Ruthmann, and his editor has asked Clifton to have a look. So the colonel travels to Paris, where he officially will meet his nephew, and inquire here and there less officially. A first trail leads to a man called "the detergent", but when Clifton is there things start to go very wrong... |
| 17 |  |
De duivelse dwergen (The diabolic dwarfs) (By Greg, De Groot, Azara, Turk & Bédu) |
Clifton will spend a few days in the cottage of his friend Wetsock. But upon his arrival already he is confronted with an atmosphere of fear, and that fear is caused by a few dwarfs that terrorize the environment. Clifton will soon meet the dwarfs, and notice that they are not at all a case of collective hallucination... |
| 18 |  |
Jade (By Rodrigue & De Groot) |
An anonymous letter brings Clifton to an old acquaintance. This man claims to know the real location of the mythical Nazi-treasure, and wants Clifton to help him prevent neo-Nazis to get the treasure... Poor extension of the series I'm afraid.. |
| 19 |  |
Zwarte maan (Black moon) (By Rodrigue & De Groot) |
A month ago Clifton is asked to infiltrate into a sect in Korea. Normally the secret service wouldn't bother, but this sect seems to be aiming at relatives of public figures, to use all means possible to squeeze as much funds and other things out of those public figures. And they have a nephew of the Prime Minister... |
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