List of Valérian and Laureline books
This is a list of all of the official "Valérian and Laureline" books. Each story was written by Pierre Christin, drawn by Jean-Claude Mézières and coloured by Evelyn Tran-Lé. Albums. Every "Valérian" adventure from "Bad Dreams" to "The Wrath of Hypsis" was first serialised in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine "Pilote". The first story to be collected in comic album format was "The City of Shifting Waters" which was numbered "1" in the series. When "Bad Dreams" was eventually collected as an album, it was given the number "0" to reflect its  position as the debut adventure in the series. The dates given in the following list are the year of first publication of each story in album format: With Jean-Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin having retired from writing further Valerian & Laureline adventures in 2010, other writers and illustrators were later commissioned to create new stories. Short stories. Seven short stories were also published in the quarterly, digest-sized "Super Pocket Pilote" between 1969 and 1970 and later collected in "Across the Pathways of Space" ("Par Les Chemins De l’Espace") (1997): Hardcover collection. During 2017 and 2018 the British publisher Cinebook  Limited published a hardcover collection of the series titled; "Valerian: The Complete Collection", spread over seven volumes, with three to four stories in each book. These volumes are in full original color, printed on glossy paper and measure 220 mm × 290 mm.