When Dargaud Sprung A Leak And Revealed An Entire Comic Library

Dargaud, one of the biggest publishers of comic books in the world, has recently revamped its website. Before now, every book they published had its own page where you could see the cover and a preview of the first few pages. Such as this current release schedule.

All very swish.

Recently however, Dargaud introduced a new preview system, gradually running out through their catalogue of work.

Take this final Blueberry album by Moebius. still using the old system. Where the cover has 2 arrows (left and right) and by clicking on them, you can see the first few pages of the book in question.

Now let's say you go to the penultimate Blueberry album drawn by Moebius. That's on the new system, with a clickable rectangle reading "lire les premiere planches" (read the first pages). Clicking on it pops up a new page previewing the first seven pages of that comic.

But until yesterday, readers were able to take the URL of that page, say

http://bdi.dlpdomain.com/player/DKTMSJxuxDqPW8bihKXvIE19B57r1xR4-page6-1200.jpg

And change the number of the page, from 7  to 8 to 9 to 10… all the way to the 48th page at the end, and read the entire comic for free.