Spirou et Fantasio (comic book)

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publisher=Dupuis
date=1948
series="Spirou et Fantasio"
origlanguage=French
origpublication="Le Journal de Spirou" "Almanach Spirou 1947"
origissues= #422 - #521
origdate=1946 - 1948
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writers=Franquin
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previssue= "Spirou et l'aventure", 1948
nextissue= "Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio", 1950

"Spirou et Fantasio", written and drawn by Franquin (except for a few plates by Jijé), is an album that precedes the "Spirou et Fantasio" series. It contains Franquin's first four stories completed between 1946 and 1948, three of which were serialised in "Le Journal de Spirou".

tories

* "Fantasio et son tank". Fantasio buys a demobilized tank from an American soldier, and accidentally destroys the neighborhood with it. Spirou and the neighborhood boys help with repairs.

* "La maison préfabriquée". Fantasio becomes a salesman of seaside prefabricated houses.

* "L'heritage de Spirou". Spirou inherits from a deceased uncle, a strange house with secrets.

* "Le Savant fou". (Also called "Radar le robot") Spirou joins Fantasio on a journalistic trip, and they see a car with no driver causing panic in town. Following this invention, they meet an insane scientist, who has built a robot with the goal to destroy the world.

Background

The first story, "Le Tank", is the very first 12 board "test" story Franquin drew to convince Jijé of his abilities, which was later printed in "Spirou almanache 1947" of 1946. The following story, "La maison préfabriquée", is the episode Jijé famously had begun in "Spirou" issue #422, but handed over to Franquin, to continue five boards into the work from issue #427.cite web | last =franquin.com | title =Une vie - 1946 | url =http://www.franquin.com/bio/1946.phpfr_icon]

Although this album is not regarded as part of the official series and was never republished, its four stories are all printed and available in the "hors-série" albums, HS1 "L'héritage" and HS2 "Radar le robot".

ources

* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/franquin.htm Franquin publications in "Spirou"] BDoubliées fr_icon
* "Les Mémoires de Spirou" Thierry Martens, Jean-Paul Tibéri, Dupuis, 1989. 160 pp.;Footnotes

1. Note_label|A|a|noneNote: Not listed in "Spirou et Fantasio" numerical series.

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