Among them, the most remarkable are the journalist Sophia Paramount, Tania Orloff, niece of the Yellow Shadow, and Miss Ylang-Ylang, omnipotent leader of the Smog Organization.

This faithful second, strong, grouchy and tonic, nicknamed his illustrious companion "commander" in reference to a common mission of the Second World War.

Extremely rich, he is at the head of a sprawling organization, the Shin-tan, made up of fanatical and terrifying mercenaries, dacoits (gifted aboriginal killers) and thugs (Indian stranglers of great talent).

The Yellow Shadow has created many clones of himself, successively to succeed him, in case of violent death, through a device of conservation and regeneration called the Duplicator.

Gérald Forton, who also produced some interior illustrations of the novels, continues the drawing of the series in 1962 with the episode La Piste de l'ivoire.

Eager to devote himself to other works, notably his Bruce J. Hawker series, William Vance abandons Bob Morane after the episode The Emperor of Macao.

[11] The first episode drawn by Coria, Operation Wolf is published in Tintin since 1979, shortly after the end of the publication of The Emperor of Macau.

The publisher also seeks the agreement of Henri Vernes, holder of moral rights over his characters, who does not seem hostile to the idea: "I was initially happy that something was finally decided to restart this series because it had been a long time since nothing had been done for her ".

[11] It is decided to revive the series without Henri Vernes scenario to modernize since Bob Morane becomes a United Nations peacekeeping mission, at the heart of contemporary geopolitical issues.

[14] Henri Vernes was very hard towards this reboot: "I found the result mediocre",[15] "We completely changed the characters (...) As for the scenario, it is written by people who can not write.

[13][16] After the publication of two volumes, constituting a complete story, Le Lombard announces that it ends its collaboration with writers Luc Brunschwig and Aurélien Ducoudray indicating that, despite commercial success, there is no "relationship of trust and mutual respect with the authors "since" no dialogue on the unfolding of the narrative could be initiated "and that the series would continue with Dimitri Armand,[17][16] which the latter confirms by announcing the publication of a new album in 2018,[2] which has not been published.

[19] In 2015, at the request of Éditions Joe, Gérald Forton also wrote, with the help of in the screenplay, a final episode of Bob Morane on a new story not written by Henri Vernes, Dans l'ombre du cartel.