The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer (series of graphic novels)

Blake et Mortimer

Last modified: 2014-12-27 by peter hans van den muijzenberg
Keywords: blake | mortimer | yellow empire | jacobs (edgar p.) | star: 8 points (red ) | star: 6 points (red) |
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• Introduction
• Yellow Empire
  • State Flag
  • Roundel

See also:

• Designs similar to Japanese flags
• Fictional flags in book
• Fictional flags

Introduction

The adventures of Blake and Mortimer are comics stories by Edgar P. Jacobs (1904-1987).
Jaume Ollé, 17 May 2003, Christopher Meyer-Kretschmer, 2 August 2001, and Ivan Sache, 1 July 2007

Yellow Empire

The Yellow Empire is centered in Tibet with its capital in Lhasa, in The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer – Le secret de l'espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish.)
Jaume Ollé, 17 May 2003, and Christopher Meyer-Kretschmer, 2 August 2001

State Flag

image by Jaume Ollé, 17 May 2003

The flag of the Yellow Empire shows a dark red eight point star on white, with a (black-line contoured) also dark red disc inside it.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 February 2012

It would seem curious that a Yellow Empire (in comics) has a white and red flag, but yellow in this context has to do with skin colour. The flag is blatantly inspired by the Japanese flag.
Francisco Santos, 17 May 2003, Ole Andersen, 17 May 2003, and Marc Pasquin, 19 May 2003

Roundel

image by Jaume Ollé, 17 May 2003

The roundel of the Yellow Empire shows a dark red six-point star on white, while the flag shows a dark red eight-point star on white, with a (black-line countured) also dark red disc inside it.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 February 2012

That's the official air force roundel of Georgia.
V. Danishevski , 26 June 2003