Charlotte Corday Projects

The stories are listed in below in a sort of chronological order, but most do not follow on from each other and some, because of the multiversal existence of Charlotte Corday, encompass similar storylines but told in different ways…

London Calling

By Stephen Walsh and Keith Page

First published by Timebomb Comics | Available to read for free on the Official Charlotte Corday Facebook Page

London Calling places a confused Charlotte in 1950s London in which not everything is quite as it should be. During World War Two, the French experimented with giving their troops vampire blood to try to make them impervious to bombs and bullets but post-war this backfired with an outbreak of vampirism in the country. To prevent the vampires taking over Paris the city was taken out of time using captured Nazi technology and now, as it tries to return, it is causing ripples in the fabric of time that are affecting Charlotte Corday in her undercover mission in London.

There, befriended by a charming vampire called Luca and while looking for another French agent, she gets caught up in a raid on a vampire club by the Metropolitan Police’s V-Squad and is arrested suspected of being a vampire herself.

The whole plot is book ended by a different Charlotte recovering her children from a flooded London and telling them the story of the book to pass the time.

• Read London Calling for free on Facebook

• Buy the TimeBomb Comics edition London Calling from amazon.co.uk

• Buy the TimeBomb Comics London Calling from amazon.com

Squadron of the Screaming Damned

Published by Timebomb Comics

The follow up to London Calling. Charlotte Corday is back as the mysterious secret agent whose missions are so top secret even she doesn’t know what they are and opens with a Word War Two German U-boat surfacing in Charlotte’s bathtub, as Page and Walsh give us another fabulous dose of the weird and wonderful that made London Calling such a hit.

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The Iron Moon

Published by Print Media (print) and ROK Comics (digital edition)

Iron Moon by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page

Not currently available

Described as ‘Rorke’s Drift in Space’, The Iron Moon is a fast-paced steampunk-inspired adventure starring no-nonsense adventuress Charlotte Corday and is now available worldwide for iPad from the Apple iTunes store.

In the story, the twentieth century is just around the corner and Queen Victoria is hale and hearty as she heads into the second century of her reign. The British Empire stretches from the white cliffs of Dover to the red skies of Mars. Go-getting men and women of the imperial dominions flock to the colours, eager to make reputations and fortunes in the wilds of high space.

Take lieutenant Charlotte Corday, for instance. Born in what used to be known as France, she has risen to prominence through the ranks of the Royal Space Navy and now finds herself up to her neck in her greatest escapade yet. Watch as she travels to the mysterious Iron Moon! Marvel as she grapples with a conspiracy that may see the galaxy plunged into war! Goggle as she meets new and strange races, both mechanical and biological! Ponder how she manages to put away so many cups of tea! And prepare to have your brain scrambled as she scoops us up and carries us to the very limits of this universe… and into the next!

Buzz-Bomb Follies of 1569

50 pages – Black and White – Not currently available

In which we learn of Queen Elisabeth the First’s enthusiasm for the Wild West, how Charlotte helped to foil the Vampiroid invasion; and how the London Bus Pirates once menaced the streets

Seven Dials

49 pages – Black and White – Not currently available

In which Charlotte plays two roles in the true stories of Spring Heel’d Jack and Alice in Wonderland. And how Charles Dickens was involved in the construction of the first Tube line.

Plunger’s Last Case

101 pages – Black and White – Not currently available

In which Charlotte appears somewhat bewildered in the 1970’s. The usual sort of thing, including a secret government plot, a huge floating city and the Great God Fantog. Plunger’s last case is a pretty spectacular one.

“This is written by Stephen Walsh and is based on an actual event, notes Keith, “and was inspired by a mixture of A Clockwork Orange, The Quatermass Conclusion and Captain Scarlet!

“It also features some new characters: a youthful writer and someone inspired by Steve Strange. I have a brief appearance as a young artist visiting ‘Matt Pills’.”

Starfall on Cydonia

Not yet published

A full colour adventure set in space, crammed with affectionate nods to SF comic heroes such as Dan Dare and Jeff Hawke

Charlotte Corday – Witchcraft Street

Available to read for free on Tapas

By Keith Page

Opening before World War Two and featuring a young Charlotte Corday and, later, her older self, this story features Charlotte’s father in more than one guise, and sets out many of the themes seen in longform stories such as Squadron of the Screaming Damned.

The Hampstead Horror

Not currently available – partly published digitally by ROK Comics

By Stephen Walsh and Keith Page, lettered by John Freeman

The Adventures of Charlotte Corday - The Hampstead Horror - art by Keith Page

A short strip first published on the ROK Comics mobile comics platform; only three episode were published, but the story runs to 15 overall

Paint it Black

Not currently available

By Stephen Walsh and Keith Page

Written by Stephen Walsh and set entirely in London’s Soho, it’s a story like no other!

V-Cars

Not currently available

By Stephen Walsh and Keith Page

Charlotte Corday of the Süreté

• Available to read online on Tapas for free as one of “The Adventures of Charlotte Corday”

By Stephen Walsh and Keith Page, lettered by John Freeman

Published in part on the part on the ROK Comics mobile platform in 2008, this story takes place after “Witchcraft Street” and features Charlotte’s father as a ghostly, invisible talking mule, helping her investigate a bizarre time twisting mystery!