Space Pirate Captain Harlock #3

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Space Pirate Captain Harlock, #3. First printing. Published by Ablaze Publishing, 11222 SE Main St. #22906 Portland, OR 97269. Capitaine Albator — Mémoires de l’Arcadia 2 © 1977 Leiji Matsumoto (AKITASHOTEN). © 2019-2021 Leiji Matsumoto (AKITASHOTEN). © 2019–2021 Alquié — KANA (Dargaud — Lombard S.A.) All rights reserved. For the English edition: © 2021 ABLAZE, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Ablaze and its logo TM & © 2021 Ablaze, LLC. All Rights Reserved. All names, characters, events, and locales in this publication are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), events or places, without satiric intent is coincidental. No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means (digital or print) without the written permission of Ablaze Publishing except for review purposes. Printed in Canada. For advertising and licensing email: info@ablazepublishing.com ablazepublishing.com @ablazepub @ablazepub /ablazepub ABLAZE PRESENTS STORY LEIJI MATSUMOTO, JÉRÔME ALQUIÉ ART JÉRÔME ALQUIÉ TRANSLATION FABRICE SAPOLSKY LETTERS DEZI SIENTY COVER ARTISTS DERRICK CHEW, LEIRIX, RAYMUND LEE, CIAN TORMEY, JÉRÔME ALQUIÉ, FOR ABLAZE MANAGING EDITOR RICH YOUNG EDITOR KEVIN KETNER DESIGNER RODOLFO MURAGUCHI SPECIAL THANKS LEIJI MATSUMOTO & JEROME ALQUIE EMILIE VEDIS, SOPHIE CASTILLE & TIMOTHEE GUEDON AKITA SHOTEN ZACK DAVISSON

Memories of the Arcadia, year of grace 2977, day 45.

To you, my friend, who travels with us on this sea of stars alongside the 40 crew members of our pirate ship Arcadia…

The Earth has been experiencing an intense cold snap recently, endangering the lives of all living creatures on the planet.

it all started in the Arctic, in the Ledus 4 meteorological base where Professor imer and Professor Reiji witnessed the awakening of a Mazon who had been asleep for over 300 million years.

…Professor

imer had been able to escape the disaster caused by the destructive power of the ice Mazon, but…

Get away from there! Don’t go near the professor.

A very different Mazon though, whose body seems to be partly made of ice.
Reiji didn’t get that chance.

Thanks to the intensity of the Promesian radiation, I should be able to heat up your frozen body.

CHAPTER FOUR THE SPACE TRAVELER’S EMBRACE.

it’s risky, but I have no other choice.

Professor…I know I shouldn’t get involved, but I can’t leave you like this.

it’s working. The device can detect a pulse…

He’s weak and still unconscious. I need to know what happened here…

…thanks to this mind reader.

Prior to being frozen in ice, he had time to decipher two metal plates engraved with Mazon hieroglyphs.

The first one shows the exact location of the very first Mazon ship, which landed 300 million years ago in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest.

We

Rest now. They’ll be here soon.

it directed us towards the Arctic, where it all started.

As for the second one he kept in his hand, it seemed to hold the secrets of the mysterious ice Mazon.

Professor… thought these secrets were forever lost with Reiji, when the Arcadia suddenly received a signal from a magnetic beacon, activated to catch our attention.

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