Le prisonnier du Bouddha

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caption=Cover of the Belgian edition
publisher=Dupuis
date=1960
series="Spirou et Fantasio"
origlanguage=French
origpublication="Le Journal de Spirou"
origissues= #1048 - #1082
origdate= 1958-1959
origisbn= 2-8001-0016-8
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writers=Franquin with Greg
artists=Franquin with Jidéhem
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previssue= "Le voyageur du Mésozoïque", 1960
nextissue= "Z comme Zorglub", 1961

"Le prisonnier du Bouddha", written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the fourteenth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series. The story was initially serialised in "Spirou", before its release as a hardcover album in 1960.

tory

In "The Prisoner of the Buddha", Spirou and Fantasio arrive in Champignac to find great changes in the Count's mansion park. A Russian scientist, Nicolas Inovskyev, the co-inventor of a revolutionary and powerful device named the G.A.G., is in hiding fearing the same fate as his American partner Harold W. Longplaying. Longplaying has been kidnapped by the Chinese army, who want his technology, and is being held captive in a one of a series of giant statues of the Buddha which line up a valley. Armed with the new invention, the heroes set out to rescue the prisoner, and save the world.

Background

Featured in this album are two seemingly British, twin-like and awkward investigators, in what may be an homage to Hergé's "Tintin" characters, Dupond et Dupont (Thomson and Thompson).

References

* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/franquin.htm Franquin publications in "Spirou"] BDoubliées fr_icon

External links

* [http://www.spirou.com/spirou/albums.shtml Spirou official site album index] fr_icon
* [http://www.franquin.com/spirou_fantasio/albums_spirou.php Franquin site album index] fr_icon