Le Scorpion is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Stephen Desberg, illustrated by Enrico Marini and published by Dargaud in French and Dutch, and by Cinebook in English.

He is the son of a heretic who was burnt alive for misdirecting a priest from the church and Christian beliefs.

Armando, the bearer of a birthmark in the shape of a scorpion known as the "mark of the devil", challenges the cardinal's authority.

The cardinal, who seems to be filled with hatred for The Scorpion, sends the young gypsy Mejai, a specialist in poisons, to kill him.

[1] The adventures of the Scorpion lead him to the treasure of the Templars and to discover an interpretation of what might have happened to it.