Naz-en-l'Air

As even a cursory reader will have realised, Fantômas occupies an important place in my imagination. So overwhelmingly all-consuming is it, in fact, that it is difficult to think of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain as the authors of anything else once that masterwork was underway, yet that would be to underestimate pulp writing and publishing. Only a year and a half after launching Fantômas, which they were still churning out monthly, the two authors also began a spy series, Naz-en-l'Air, which they produced concurrently to the same monthly schedule. As with Fantômas, the series was published in Fayard's 65 centime series, with the first volume appearing at a teaser price of 35 centimes. I haven't yet read any of these, but Starace's brooding cover is drawing me in.