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| • | Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series, by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, edited by Dupuis.
The principal character is Largo Winch whose original name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch (his adoptive father), John D. Sullivan, Dwight E. Cochrane and Simon Ovronaz.
Largo Winch started as a series of novels by Jean Van Hamme in the late 1970's, but stopped due to a lack of success and the huge amount of work Van Hamme had in the meantime with his comic books (e.g. Thorgal). When Francq wanted to make a series with Van Hamme, he revived his old hero, and reworked the novels into the first albums of the comic series. Later, new stories followed.
In the first two volumes of the series, L'héritier and Le Groupe W, Largo, a young and handsome orphan, is propelled to the head of a business empire, Le groupe W, after his adoptive father Nerio commits a forced suicide, and goes through a lot of troubles to preserve his heritage and avenge Nerio.
The following albums are more or less based on the same basic plot: someone is trying to harm Largo's company or to expel him from direction, and he has to fight that someone to ensure the survival of his holding.
All the stories of the series are published in two volumes, the first one being the one putting Largo in an impossible situation, and the second one letting him get out of it. Besides, both volumes share the same background color on the cover.
The stories appear originally in French, and are translated in Dutch.
Source: [wikipedia: largo winch]
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