Le nid des Marsupilamis

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Spirou et Fantasio #12
Le nid des Marsupilamis

Cover of the Belgian edition

Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1960
Series	Spirou et Fantasio

Creative team
Writer(s)	Franquin
Artist(s)	Franquin with Jidéhem

Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	#969 - #991 #1034 - #1045
Date(s) of publication	1956 - 1957, 1958
Language	French
ISBN	ISBN 2-8001-0014-1

Chronology
Preceded by	Le gorille a bonne mine, 1959
Followed by	Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, 1960

Le nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, appeared in Le Journal de Spirou, before being released as a hardcover album in 1960.

1 Story
2 Background
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Story

In The Nest of the Marsupilamis, Seccotine invites Spirou and Fantasio to a screening of her new documentary film, revealing what she has been doing since last seen in Palombia (in Le dictateur et le champignon). The film follows a Marsupilami in the wild, as he discovers and courts a mate, and they form a family in need of care and protection.

In The Gangsters' Fair, Spirou and Fantasio are unexpectedly assaulted by a small martial arts-expert, Soto Kiki, who wants to train them in judo in order to act as bodyguards for the European visit of oil tycoon John P. Nut, a man with gangster enemies. All changes as the gangsters attempt to assassinate Soto Kiki, and kidnap the millionaire's infant son.

[edit] Background

Since the stories of this album were produced some time apart, the protagonists abruptly shift from driving their Turbotraction:Turbot-Rhino I in the first story, and the Turbot 2 in the second.

Gaston Lagaffe features in his third Spirou adventure cameo in La foire aux gangsters. The version of this album differs slightly from the one serialised in Spirou, in that a final half-page has been removed, leaving the quite brutal epilogue of Soto Kiki untold.

Franquin created Le nid des Marsupilamis - which features extensive parenting sequences - while his wife Liliane expected their first child.^{[citation needed]}