- Tembo Tabou
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publisher=Dupuis
date=1974
series="Spirou et Fantasio "
origlanguage=French
origpublication="Le Parisien Libéré", "Le Journal de Spirou"
origissues= Unknown, #1721 - #1723, #1420
origdate=1959 ,1971
origisbn= 2-8001-0351-5
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writers=Franquin with Greg
artists=Franquin withJean Roba
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previssue= "Tora Torapa ",1973
nextissue= "Le gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba ",1974 "Tembo Tabou", written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin and
Jean Roba , is the twentyfourth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio " series, and the twentieth under Franquin's authorship. The story was initially serialised in "Le Parisien Libéré", and later in "Spirou", before it was published, along with theMarsupilami story "La Cage", as a hardcover album in 1974.tory
In "Tembo Tabou", Spirou and
Fantasio find themselves on another expedition travelling upstream an African river, in search of vanished American author Oliver Gurgling Thirstywell. Events become increasiongly more strange when they discover red elephants, befriend a pygmy tribe, learn ofMarsupilami 's love of eating warrior ants, and confront a gang of "protection racket" thugs who cultivate meat-eating plants.The story "The Cage" cronicles an awful day at work for intrepid poacher Bring M. Backalive, obsessed with capturing a living sample of a baby Marsupilami, who learns the cost of angering a Marsupilami father.
Background
In the 70s, Swedish publishing house Carlsen Comics deemed the story's contents to be racially offensive, and the album was never published in Sweden.cite web | last = Daniel Andréason, Kirk Reichmann | title = Spirou enligt Franquin | url =http://www.mantagraphics.com/franquin/temboinfo.htm|language=Swedish]
The title story of this album was produced in the period between the making of "
Spirou et les hommes-bulles " and "QRN sur Bretzelburg ".References
* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/franquin.htm Franquin publications in "Spirou"] BDoubliées fr_iconFootnotes
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
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