Les voleurs du Marsupilami

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publisher=Dupuis
date=1954
series="Spirou et Fantasio"
origlanguage=French
origpublication="Le Journal de Spirou"
origissues= #729 - #761
origdate=1952
origisbn= 2-8001-0007-9
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writers=Franquin Jo Almo, idea
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previssue= "Spirou et les héritiers", 1952
nextissue= "La corne de rhinocéros", 1955

"Les voleurs du Marsupilami", written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series, resuming development of the Spirou universe where the previous "Spirou et les héritiers" left off. After serial publication in "Spirou", the story was released as a complete hardcover album in 1954.

tory

In "The Marsupilami's Thieves", Spirou and Fantasio regret giving the magnificent animal they brought back from the Palombian jungle, the Marsupilami, to a zoo, and decide to free the animal again and return it to its original home. This plan fails because someone else beats them to the abduction, and another quest to find the Marsupilami begins. This journey brings them to the city of Magnana, and the fiendish Circus Zabaglione.

Background

As a direct (and slightly less fantastic) sequel to the previous album, "Les Voleurs" contain several memorable episodes, including the intermezzo at the border station, and Spirou and Fantasio's circus disguise act as "Cam & Leon", with some help from the science of the Count of Champignac.

Football player Valentin Mollet, introduced in this story, is another "shifting" character in "Spirou et Fantasio". Initially a villain - he steals the Marsupilami for money to support his family - he repays Spirou et Fantasio for giving him a second chance and ends up saving the day.

Jo Almo, a pseudonym for Geo Salmon, is credited for idea work.

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