Jaleb

Jaleb is a French comic book character created by writer Claude J. Legrand and artist Annibale Casabianca for French publisher Editions Lug in 1972.

Jaleb is an alien abandoned on Earth as a baby. Raised by the Jellicoe family, he eventually discovers that he has the power of telepathy. Jaleb eventually meets others like him on Earth. Then he discovers that he comes from a galactic federation torn by a civil war between the ruling class of telepaths and the non-telepaths. After helping the non-telepaths win the war, Jaled chooses to return to Earth as an agent of the Federation.

Eighteen episodes of Jaleb were originally published in the digest-size magazine Futura in 1972-73. The series was then discontinued.

The character returned in 2002 in Special-Zembla No. 167, before joining the Strangers, in the eponymous comic-book series, written by Jean-Marc Lofficier. Jaleb's last appearance was in Yuma No. 9 in 2003.

Jaleb is now part of Hexagon Comics which will publish a trade paperback collection of his adventures translated into English in 2009.